Stationary Tools: TigerRip 1000 Rip System

TigerStop's TigerRip 1000 Rip System performs material optimization and rip saw automation functions usually only attributed to larger systems, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, enabling small to medium-sized shops to afford large shop performance and efficiency.

Through Dynamic Optimization of random width lumber, TigerRip 1000 automates ripping and provides shops with unsurpassed material yield - from a lower grade of wood - vastly increasing performance efficiency and lowering material costs.

It also has the ability to track cut list progress and provide ink-jet labeling on each strip. TigerRip 1000 was designed and built as a fully-integrated rip system which includes a material handling solution and proprietary software technology.

“Large shops rely a great deal on highly sophisticated, automated saw systems to help them maximize yield, increase efficiency and ensure accuracy,” says company founder and president, Spencer Dick. “With TigerRip 1000, we’ve now made that same level of technology, efficiency and performance affordable for the small to medium-sized shop.”

Most small to medium-sized shops rely on human saw operators, who, by their very nature, along with the capabilities of the operating systems currently available, are unable to truly maximize and optimize yield when ripping material or making additional or multiple rips. The typical shop usually rips FAS grade material.

With TigerRip 1000, the entire process is automated by a computer-controlled system that is accurate, intuitive and easy to use. The only operation left up to the operator is feeding material into the system.

A shop using TigerRip 1000 dramatically lowers its material costs by using 1 Common and getting the same - or even an increase - in yield when compared to shops using typical methods to rip FAS.

TigerRip 1000 Features:

• Dynamic Optimization enables simultaneous optimization of panel and fixed widths
• Track cut-list progress – keeps track of lineal footage of fixed width strips and square footage of panel strips
• Ink-jet strip-labeling for easy sorting
• Lean production - rip only what is needed by job or by batch
• Optimized production - batch multiple jobs for increased yield
• Ease of operation by unskilled labor
• Increased safety – operator remains in a safe zone away from saw in-feed

Visit www.tigerstop.com or phone 360-254-0661.