Who is Nelson Bros Engineering?

Nelson Bros Engineering has been making scanners and optimizers since 1992. Our goal is to make systems that are SIMPLE, thus SIMPLY BETTER. Prior to starting NBE, Rod Nelson worked for many of the Big Vendors. During that time he learned a lot about Scanning and Optimization, but also about the problems that plagued the Big Vendors:

Late deliveries.
Inexperienced designers, startup and service people.
Inflexibility to customer requirements.
Overpriced.
Mergers followed by abandoned products
Forgotten or ignored sales commitments.
Equipment and controls that just did not work.

At NBE, we focus on the Equipment Startup. A short & sweet Startup is better than sex! Well, that may not be true, but a good Startup gives you time away from the job to see if sex is better. It is certainly better than getting screwed by a bad startup.

Good Startups sell your next system, Good Startups cost less, Good Startups are actually enjoyable.

Our best startups have been the scanner / optimizer / controls upgrade. These have all been weekend startups, plus the mill can usually see the improvement in overall mill recovery during the first week. It can't get better than that.

For new equipment, startups are more involved, thus entail more risk. Our best startups of new equipment are usually the result of the following:

A shop test or an off-line startup.
An experienced startup team.
A simple system
Avoiding words like "new" and "first" and questioning statements like "no problem".
Hope for success, but plan for problems.

Maybe its luck, maybe its skill, but by the end of 2005 we have a pretty amazing record:

27 Lineally Scanned Edger Optimizers.
12 Transverse Scanned Gang and Board Edger Optimizers.
4 Trimmer Optimizers
10 Lineally Scanned Log Optimizers
10 Lineally Scanned Gang and Combo Edger Optimizers
3 Lineally Scanned Bucking Optimizers
4 Snapshot Log Optimizers
5 Surround Scan Carriage Optimizers
1 Lineally Scanned Planermill Optimizer

We installed 20 systems in 2006 and have 11 booked for 2007. The future looks bright.

NBE has become that innovative group that people go to when they want to do a “First of a kind” system or when they just want to have any easy startup.

If the customer doesn't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. This is obviously a 1999 picture. I am much more handsome now.

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
NBE Home Page	NBE Article in Timber Processing on Lineal versus Transverse Scanning
Customer List	NBE Article in Timber Processing on Curve Sawing Gangs
Email NBE	Click here for the real resume on Rod