Les forêts de feuillus tolérants fournissent une vaste gamme de produits, notamment des billes dont la valeur varie de 45 à 1700 $/m3. L'utilisaton de modèles de production convenant aux produits de commodité ne maximise pas la valeur qu'on peut tirer de ce type de forêt.
An automated process has stringent tolerance requirements for product dimensions, such as maximum allowable wane and warping. Products that do not meet these tolerances create problems in the process flow, and hence reduce productivity and quality. In addition, the assembly of building components is moved from on site to off site. This move calls for the integration of different processes. It requires adjustments in raw material characteristics. Therefore, the forestry industry can gain from the opportunity to adapt its processes to provide dimensionally stable products to the construction industry.
Faced with a very complex regional forest, forestry stakeholders in the Mauricie region have mobilized to create the Groupe Initiative Mauricie (GIM). This group wishes to develop a new vision of the wood industry in the Mauricie. To do so, all segments of the supply chain, from the forest to the mills, are analyzed in order to improve their value. During its first phase, the GIM conducted several projects focused on wood supply in order to find ways to improve it. These included forest inventories, annual harvest planning and productivity in forest operations. operations. Researchers from FPInnovations and the FORAC consortium were involved and made some recommendations that recommendations that could lead to savings. A second phase has since been undertaken to verify how the proposed solutions would proposed solutions would meet the issues raised.
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Devant une forêt régionale bien complexe, des intervenants forestiers de la Mauricie se sont mobilisés pour créer le Groupe Initiative Mauricie (GIM). Ce groupe souhaite développer une nouvelle vision de la filière bois en Mauricie. Pour ce faire, tous les segments de la chaîne d’approvisionnement, de la forêt jusqu’aux usines, y sont analysés afin d’en améliorer la valeur. Lors de sa première phase, le GIM a mené plusieurs projets axés sur l’approvisionnement en bois afin de trouver des pistes d’amélioration. Ceux-ci touchaient les inventaires forestiers, la planification annuelle de récolte et la productivité en opérations forestières. Des chercheurs de FPInnovations et du consortium FORAC ont été mis à contribution et ont formulé certaines recommandations pouvant mener à des économies. Depuis, une deuxième phase a été entreprise pour vérifier comment les solutions proposées permettraient de rencontrer les enjeux soulevés.
Faced with a very complex regional forest, forestry stakeholders in the Mauricie region have mobilized to create the Groupe Initiative Mauricie (GIM). This group wishes to develop a new vision of the wood industry in the Mauricie. To do so, all segments of the supply chain of the supply chain, from the forest to the mills, are analyzed in order to improve their value.
Abstract
Devant une forêt régionale bien complexe, des intervenants forestiers de la Mauricie se sont mobilisés pour créer le Groupe Initiative Mauricie (GIM). Ce groupe souhaite développer une nouvelle vision de la filière bois en Mauricie. Pour ce faire, tous les segments de la chaîne d’approvisionnement, de la forêt jusqu’aux usines, y sont analysés afin d’en améliorer la valeur.
Many companies and their contractors must adapt to the reality of integrating harvesting with the sorting of multiple products. This separation of products can be performed at several stages during harvesting. This Technical Note combines the results of published and unpublished studies to describe the advantages and disadvantages of separating two or more products with the various machines used in full-tree, tree-length and cut-to-length harvesting systems. The cost of separating six products is simulated for three different harvesting systems.
