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OptiX MAXX automates Grade, Turn, Feed at the resaw, improving recovery and reducing shift variability across your operation.
OptiX MAXX integrates scanning, grade optimization, automated turning, and consistent infeed into a single system. Every cant is evaluated, positioned, and ready for the best available cut before it reaches the saw.
When recovery comes up, the conversation usually starts at the blade. Feed speeds, blade selection, maintenance schedules. Those things matter.
But for many operations, the larger opportunity is happening in the moments before the cut.
Manual resaw lines rely on operators to evaluate each cant, determine the best position, and feed it consistently. Shift after shift, hour after hour. Even experienced operators make different calls. Fatigue affects judgment. Positioning drifts. Decisions vary between shifts.
These aren't operator failures. They're the natural limits of a manual process. And over time, those small inconsistencies become measurable recovery loss.
OptiX MAXX pairs McDonough's AutoMAXX resaw with A&E's OptiX scanning and optimization technology in one integrated system.
Rather than bolting separate technologies together from different suppliers, it's designed from the ground up as a connected solution. The scanning intelligence and mechanical execution are built around each other, not adapted after the fact.
The outcome is a resaw process that doesn't depend on real-time operator decisions to get the best result from every cant.
When grading, turning, and feeding are automated, mills get more from the same material. The value was always there, the process just wasn't capturing it consistently.
The system identifies the best available cut solution on every piece, not just when conditions are ideal and operators are fresh.
The same criteria apply to the first cant of the day and the last. The system doesn't have an off day.
Experienced staff remain valuable, but the outcome at the resaw no longer rides on who's running the line or how long they've been standing there.
When the process is consistent, throughput becomes easier to plan and easier to measure.
Fatigue-related positioning drift disappears when turning and feeding decisions are handled automatically.
It can be added to existing McDonough resaw lines using a new infeed system, automated turning, and A&E's OptiX grader. You upgrade the process without replacing the resaw.
OptiX MAXX is the product of two companies that spent decades on opposite sides of the same problem.
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Yes. OptiX MAXX can be added to existing McDonough resaw lines with a new infeed system, automated turning, and A&E's OptiX grader. You don't need to replace your current resaw to get the benefits of automated grade optimization.
OptiX MAXX automates the grading, turning, and feeding decisions at the resaw. Operators shift from making real-time positioning calls on every cant to overseeing a system that handles those decisions automatically. The role changes. The need for skilled people doesn't go away, but the pressure on individual judgment at the resaw does.
Recovery gains vary by operation, material mix, and current process. The consistent benefit comes from removing variability. When every cant is graded and positioned using the same criteria, you stop losing value to inconsistent decisions. Operations that currently rely heavily on manual positioning tend to see the largest opportunity.
Most automated resaws address the mechanical side: feeding speed, consistency of delivery. OptiX MAXX adds grade intelligence before the cut. A&E's OptiX scanning system evaluates each cant and selects the optimal cut solution, then the McDonough AutoMAXX resaw executes it. The combination of decision-making and mechanical performance in one coordinated system is what sets it apart.
Tyler King at A&E handles optimizer sales and can walk you through how the system fits your specific line. Reach him at tyler@automationelecusa.com or 318-548-5138. Matt Tietz at McDonough is also available to discuss the mechanical integration side at mtietz@mcdonoughmfg.com or 715-834-7755.
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Contact Tyler or Matt. They can walk you through how the system fits your operation.
tyler@automationelecusa.com
Ph: 318-548-5138
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mtietz@mcdonoughmfg.com
Ph: 715-834-7755
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Ph: 715-834-7755