Stephen S.: Well, hi.
I'm Steve Stoppenbrink, and I want to welcome you to Laguna Tools, where we thrive on innovation.
Today, we're very excited to present to you a revolutionary way to build and assemble
cabinets and improve all of your business processes.
Over the next couple hours, you're going to hear how to automate your processes, improve
your productivity improve your profits, and what equipment it takes to make all that happen.
Stephen S.: We're joined by industry leaders from Lockdowel, the innovator of this process,
by Allmoxy, for your front and back office automation, and Cabinet Vision, the best cabinet
making software on the plant.
You'll be also shown some of Laguna Tools' equipment.
Again, the most innovative equipment that you could buy to put all this process together.
Be followed up by a full demonstration.
We're actually going to go through the process to show you how the assembly works, how the
process is applied, and how we build a cabinet.
So it's going to be fantastic.
By the time you leave here today, you're going to have all the tools needed to lead your
industry in profitability and productivity.
The question will be, are you going to lead or are you going to fall behind?
Daniel Savage: Hey, everybody.
I'm Daniel Savage.
I'm with Lockdowel.
I'm one of the engineers there that help develop these products.
Like he said, this is the Lockdowel Laguna LD4, and it's like a doweling and insertion
machine, but it's specially designed to insert Lockdowel products, like the products Darren
was showing you.
It inserts the EClips products, the Lockdowel Channel Lock, and also the H-Clip product,
as well as the steel spring pin that goes along with them, and it's a four zone machine.
It works together with the different softwares, like Cabinet Vision.
Cabinet Vision, you could do the design of your cabinets and output the drilling and
insertion of the fasteners to this machine.
Daniel Savage: There's also parametric programming set up.
So you can be running several different size cabinets like you can be doing 12-inch uppers
and 24-inch D bases.
You can use the same program, and drill and insert the fasteners using this machine.
It's got auto-start features.
It uses laser sensors to sense that there's a part in position.
So you just slide the part in, have your parametric program set up, that'll automatically clamp,
drill, and insert the parts for you.
Daniel Savage: Also, if you're doing barcoding, we have a wireless barcode scanner that, as
soon as you're ready to machine your part, you just scan the part, slide it in, it'll
automatically select the zone and begin machining.
So it's very simple, very easy to use.
You just go to your work plane, and drag and drop the programs that you have set up in
there.
Daniel Savage: Here, I'm going to be using the Channel Lock Parametric Program.
I'll insert a few fasteners into this test panel so you can see how it works, but basically,
you just drag and drop the program into the zones that you want to use.
So I'm going to choose zone A. So you have four zones, from zone A, B, C, and D. So I'm
going to drag a program into zone A and to zone B, and that way, I can machine two sides
of this part, and they will be in the same position on each side.
Daniel Savage: It has a laser measuring tool to determine, so the machine knows the length
of the board, and the length determines how many fasteners the panel will receive.
So as you can see here after I insert the board and the laser begins to measure the
panel, before it inserts, you'll see this little graphic grow, and they'll actually
give you a number readout on the screen, what the actual length of the board is.
So before you're ready to machine, if you're just going to do one run, you will uncheck
the repeat selection.
If you're going to do multiple runs, you can leave that on, and you can just keep running
parts without having to touch the keyboard or the mouse.
Daniel Savage: So as soon as you're ready to machine, just hit the start button.
You probably heard it.
Maybe you didn't see it, but there's another zero divider here that pops up automatically,
up and down, when you're using either of these two zones.
If you're not using those zones, it'll stay flush with the work surface.
Like, if you're doing really tall cabinets with a full back and you're machining those
tall backs, you can do those all in one shot and this will be out of your way.
Daniel Savage: So when you're ready to machine, all you have to do is place the panel and
flush it up against the stops, and after a few seconds, it'll automatically clamp down,
and you get running.
So first, it's going to come over and measure the part.
So you can see, the graphic grew there.
Filling the holes, and insert the EClips.
So you see there.
Flip it around, do the mirror side.
Make sure your clamp's in the correct position.
And now, this part is ready to be installed on your cabinet.
It's as easy as that.
Brady Lewis: Allmoxy was built using this idea of industry 4.0, and I grew up in the
woodworking industry.
So we built Allmoxy specifically for a woodworking company.
So the idea behind it is, we give you an online ordering platform, to where your customers
can order automatically, or order using a nice, easy system, and then it takes that
information, it creates your parts list, it creates your exports.
So later on, we're going to show you exporting out to Cabinet Vision.
It can send invoices out automatically.
It checks your supplies and orders all the supplies you need from your vendors.
It's looking at, employees are checking in and out of orders.
It's updating the customer on where it is in the shop.
All this is happening automatically, just using a web-based system.
Daniel Savage: So first thing we're going to do is install our top and bottom panels,
just setting them into place, and notice this one has a dado in it, and this one has a rabbeted
edge.
The bottom doesn't need the rabbeted edge because you're going to be able to slide the
bottom one in with this one locked into position, but this will be one of the last panels that
you lock into position, and it'll cover the back panel, fully enclose it, along with the
nailer.
We'll see that in a minute, but it just allows you access to getting the back panel in after
you assemble the box with the sliding fastener.
Daniel Savage: So notice we put these spring pins in this edge, and you can see the eight-millimeter
holes that match those in the top and the bottom.
These, once you slide these into position after the box is built, will prevent all of
the parts from sliding back, and will keep the cabinet in the permanent, fixed position
once you mount it to the wall ... Screw it to the wall.
Daniel Savage: So once you have all your parts set into place ... That's got some dust ... line
up the other end panel.
Once it's all flush, you're ready to start sliding the parts into position.
Start with the bottom panel.
Get that one all the way in.
Then, you can stand it up.
You got an open dado here.
Slide your back panel in.
Make sure that goes all the way down and sits into the dado at the bottom.
Slide that in, and now your locking nailers will lock the tops and the bottom into place.
Now the box is completely assembled, put in your back panel fasteners.
Again, these may not be 100 percent necessary for smaller cabinets, but when you go to larger,
tall, like garage cabinets or kitchen cabinets where they get a little bit wobbly, these
really come in handy.
Daniel Savage: Special tool.
That's the only tool you need, piece of scrap.
Now, you got a really solid, sturdy cabinet ready to be mounted.
Jay Andrews: On behalf of Laguna Tools, I want to thank all of you for coming.
I know that, again, it takes time away from your day, and hopefully we've added some value
back to your day here, and I want to thank Lockdowel for helping put everything together
here, Cabinet Vision here, Allmoxy.
Again, these are industry partners that are pulling together to really kind of deliver
good, quality packages that make you guys profitable and give you the return on investment
for your time, and for your equipment, and for the rest of your business to go through
and make you guys profitable and make you lean and mean.
So we want to thank you all for being here today.
Speaker 5: Thank you, guys.