Forest-Planning-Toolbox-Charette.Pdf

Forest planning toolbox

A success story Francis Charette, FPInnovations

Son of a sawyer 3rd generation, John wants to bring his company to the next level by applying pull management principle

John Doe

About John

John and his team are responsible for ensuring a stable supply for many Canadian sawmills.

It must also ensure that his sawmills are able to generate maximum benefit in terms of supply assigned to it. John doe His team has just received the harvesting sectors available for President, Forest Product the next 10 years

2025 John asked FPInnovations to assist in the implementation of decision support system to enable it to achieve its profitability targets

Resource Forest Operations Sawmill Wood yard

Sec. Processing Wood Value Network

FOREST TRANSPORT YARD SAWMILL KILN PLANER SHIPYARD

FPInterface

NCCruise - IGMap ForestPlan

MaxTour Multi-facility optimization

FPWoodValue

Optitek

Sort yard sim Mill yard sim

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. NCCruise S3 ▫ Forest inventory compiler at the product level S2

Legend Peeler vol. (m3/ha) Prediction Map Legend . Enhance Forest [plots1_pr_txt].[plots_vol7.txt.Peel_Tot] Peeler vol. (m3/ha) Filled Contours Prediction Map [plots1_pr_txt].[plots_vol7.txt.Peel_Tot]0 – 21 Filled 21Contours – 38 Inventory (IGMap) 038 – 21– 52 2152 – – 38 63 3863 – – 52 72 52 – 63 72 – 80 63 – 72 ▫ Visual representation 80 – 89 72 – 80 89 – 100 80 – 89 100 – 114 89 – 100 of the volume for 100114 – – 114 131 114131 – – 131 152 131152 – – 152 178 152178 – – 178 209 each product 178209 – – 209 421 209 – 421 ▫ Identify sector of the highest value product (peeler, large sawlog)

What will be the supply cost? Which equipment to use?

Site Stand attribute . Optimal equipment . Supply cost forecast

. Productivity drivers Productivity curve

Harvesting system

. Predicting the transportation cost . How to avoid cost fluctuation . Backhaul opportunity

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. Optimal wood yard equipment team . Best yard design . Overall evaluation of the wood yard management

. Benchmarking . Different simulation wood and mill yard design . Quantitative evaluation of the wood yard

Remote sensing application for yard monitoring . Wood pile volume calculation based on image analysis . Biomass temperature monitoring through IR imagery

15 © 2016 FPInnovations. All rights reserved. Copying and redistribution prohibited. ® FPInnovations, its marks and logos are trademarks of FPInnovations. Does my mills have the right configuration in regard to the resources that we have and the market that we aim for?

. Is the sawmill equipment adapted for this type of log diet? . Will the mill be well balanced with these new harvesting sectors

. Is it time to renew some equipment?

Log Flow Optimal breakdown simulation scenario OptitekTM Simul8TM ($)

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▫ New optimization tool for Multiple Sawmills lumber secondary processing Processing ▫ Objective: Maximize secondary processing margin Kiln Planer Sorter Resaw ▫ Demo prototype built, available at: Finished https://mds.fpinnovations.ca Goods

Bulk Barge Container

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. Integration and https://woodvalue.fpinnovations.ca/ simplification of FPInterface and Optitek . We kept only the most significant variable ($$$) . Pre-simulation and database creation

. Timber sales https://woodvalue.fpinnovations.ca/ . Unwanted change to the harvesting plan ▫ Weather ▫ Market fluctuation ▫ Mill constraint . Prediction of the final basket of product

1 m³ 1 m³ ≠

. What to produce in which mill? . Which bucking card to apply? . Right wood, right mill, right time, right process(allocation)

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. Use one metric to evaluate all decisions (profit) . Integrate markets and sawmills into harvest planning . Run numerous “what-if” scenarios