KerfWave: Cut Phase

Sawdust settles, tickets scatter, and the next log is already rolling while yesterday’s stages still live in someone’s head. This tool exists to hold the full cut wave—intake, scheme, kerf passes, stacking, yard-ready, dispatch—so shift leads and operators can keep each mill run moving in the right order instead of chasing unfinished steps across parallel jobs. Place phase cards on a living ribbon, pin deliverables and species tags, and feel the gate close when a stage is empty. Rush waves fork from full mill runs; gap review lights the skipped spots; readiness checks spell out why a face or cant still blocks the line. Split-compare two cut shapes and watch shared stages versus the ones only one crew carried. When the floor gets loud, the sequence stays quiet and complete—next unfinished stage suggested, density of work visible, archived experiments off the active board. Less guesswork between passes. More lumber that actually leaves the yard in the order it was meant to.