Design and Estimating

Lumber: The entire top and bottom chord lumber Champion Truss uses, is machine stress rated lumber. Each piece of lumber is run through a machine and put through a test of compression and tension. Then it is rated and stamped by the machine. The quality and accuracy of this lumber is the best. Most of the lumber comes from northern United States and Canada.

Equipment: Champion Truss uses the latest in cutting and manufacturing trusses. The saws used are computerized and design for mass cutting. Three MiTek saws are used. The operator does not use a measuring tape at all. Each saw is equipped with five high-speed blades that adjust to assigned angles to the tenth of a degree. The lumber is fed into in saw where five different cuts are performed including the length with accuracy to the sixteenth of an inch. The to saws a capable of cutting six thousand pieces of lumber in a normal shift. The manufacturing equipment used is extremely versatile. Champion Truss, Inc. has twelve manufacturing stations. Two of which includes the latest in automated production. The MiTek roof glider is a manufacturing machine that is designed to accurately and quickly produce roof trusses. The set up is assisted with a computer generated jig placement sheet. The operator sometimes will not even know what the truss looks like when he 's setting up.

Software: Champion Truss, Inc. uses the latest in CAD and engineering software. Five full time designers will take a set of plans and create a structural roof system. A complete roof and floor layout showing truss profiles and exact placement, is available. Every truss manufactured by Champion Truss is backed up with an engineered sealed drawing.