Max Board Feet is a division of Automated Industrial Technologies. MAX represents AIT’s legendary high-performance wood handling and processing equipment.

As the competitive environment has evolved, so has MAX Board Feet. With faster saws, smaller footprint machines, customized material handling solutions, space planning consulting, and increased uptime on our equipment, we help drive down your costs of ownership. Our goal is your goal reduce waste and cut production costs.

Our Story

Gary Sill,
Founder and CEO

We’ve Been Designing and Manufacturing  automation machinery Since 1991.

Automated Industrial Technologies (AIT) was founded in 1991 in central Virginia by Gary Sill, CEO. Trained as a toolmaker, Sill started by developing machine tool fixtures but quickly found his niche in manufacturing automation. By 1994, the company had grown from a one-man start-up firm to a full-service firm with engineering services, machine shop, and in-house fabrication of automated testing and assembly machines.

AIT began designing and manufacturing automation machinery for the wood pallet industry in 1999 with the introduction of our M2L Stacker and Unscrambler. Co-developed with Greg Wine, principal of Pallet Machinery Group, Inc., our first lumber stacker has reduced labor costs and increased productivity for hundreds of lumber processing mills. Additional specialized machinery such as our high-speed saws, notcher, chamfer, singulation & metering system, and a faster stacker, the TS300, have been added to our wood pallet manufacturing equipment line.

In 2023, AIT rebranded the sector of the business that specializes in the processing of lumber/ wood products. This sector is now part of AIT’s MAX Board Feet to better communicate the division’s goal to help its customers optimize their cut stock operation.