Slides from the 4th Technical Meeting of the Slope Project

1. Project SLOPE
WP 5 – Forest information system
development
Technical Meeting
5 Jul 16

2. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Introduction
TASK 5.2
System for near real time control of operations (MHG) achieved by the
implementation of a series of different interfaces to access the FIS and allow a
number of different operations.
COMPLETED
Deliverable 5.2 - Submitted
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5 Jul 16

3. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Harvesting process
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4. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Introduction
MHG
3. PROCESSING HEAD SOFTWARE (CNR)
-Real timber products data
- Timber products summary
- Quality indexes
4. HARVESTING
MONITORING - TRE
- Field app
- Real time tree show
- Harvesting report
1. FIS (GRA)
-Display single trees and attributes
-Select points to set the cable line
-Display cutting simulation results
-Select single trees to be harvested
-Display harvesting status
GPS COM
2. – LOGISTIC AND SUPPLY CHAIN
(MHG/ITENE)
- Storage areas
- Transport tacking
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5. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Planning information
Tree data recording. Inventory data
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6. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Planning information
3D trees visualization Single tree selection for harvesting
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7. Field Application (TM) -harvesting plan-:
•2D terrain image (UAV available offline)
• RFID tagging for trees to be cut
• Add additional trees from field at
the marking stage
•Trees marked with different colours: Selected (to cut), Tagged
(with RFID) and others.
T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Planning information
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5 Jul 16

8. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Planning information
Review Meeting
5/July/16

9. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Harvesting Monitoring (trees)
Cutting monitoring (TM app):
• Single tree view showing the position on the map of all
harvested trees.
• Change tree status
Issues and limitations:
-The trees cut have not been previously selected
- Solution: View and change status of trees not
selected for cutting
-The trees cut are not in the DB
- Solution: Add new trees to be cut
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10. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Harvesting Monitoring (trees)
Cable crane and
processor head
To be
completed in
task 6
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11. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Real Time integration
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12. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Real Time integration
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13. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Tree data view
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14. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Real Time integration
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15. T5.2- Platform for near real time control of operations
Real Time integration
Create new timber storage
And orders
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16. Project SLOPE
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T.5.3 – Online purchasing/invoicing of
industrial timber and biomass
Trento, July 5th, 2016

17. Overview
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• Status: 90% ready
• Length: 20 Months (From M9 to M28)
• Involved Partners
• Leader: MHG
• Participants: GRAPHITECH, CNR, TRE, ITENE
• Aim: Design, develop and implement an online
purchasing/invoicing platform for industrial timber and biomass
as a part of FIS
• Output: D.5.03 Platform for purchasing/invoicing

18. Objectives
• Specify and implement sales platform for Slope project
• Create communication platform where sellers and buyers
can connect
• Integrate market prices to the platform
• Implement bidding and group sales functionality
• Integrate forest data from the slope central database
• Implement management features for the forest data
• Deploy sales platform prototype to live server
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19. Work done
• We made some research work about different sales
platforms
• First prototype of the sales platform completed
• Import forest data from the Slope FIS database and
manage it
• Create deals
• Group sales functionality
• Bidding system
• Communication between seller and buyer (via email)
• Sales platform is integrated to Slope user interface (T6.3)
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20. Deliverable overview
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21. Register new user
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22. User estates from slope database
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23. Forest data management
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24. Add new deals for bidding
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25. Active sales deal
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26. Next steps – Final version
• Integrate Italian and Austrian wood market prices
• Implement invoicing feature
• Small fixes to the deal feature
• Automate data transfer from the slope fis web service
• User interface fixes
• Publish the deliverable prototype
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27. Summary
• First version of prototype is ready
• MHG technology stack change affected to the timetable
• We start second iteration of development to finalize this deliverable
• Italian and Austrian prices need to be converted form that platform
supports
• Goal is to finalize this task on September 2016
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Contact info
Veli-Matti Plosila veli-matti.plosila@mhgsystems.com
Seppo Huurinainen seppo.huurinainen@mhgsystems.com
Thank you for your attention

29. Forest Information System Development
Technical Meeting
4/July/16
T.5.4 – Short-term optimization: operational,
ongoing and contingency planning
Trento, July 5th, 2016
Kühmaier Martin, Pichler Gerhard, Kastner Maximilian
Institute of Forest Engineering
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

30. Contents of the presentation
1. Overview
2. Introduction
3. Unexpected events during harvesting operations
4. Working safety risks in the timber supply chain
5. Variables, which are influencing or limiting harvesting operations
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31. Overview
• Status: ongoing (70%)
• Length: 20 Months (From M8 to M27)
• Involved Partners
• Leader: BOKU
• Participants: CNR, ITENE, MHG, TRE, GT
• Aim: - Daily planning for timber harvesting
- Optimization in the supply chain management
- Risk management during emergency
- Guidelines for short term planning optimization
• Output: D.5.04 (M27)
Short-term optimization module of the FIS
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32. Introduction
• The aim of task 5.4 was to develop a tool for short-term optimization for
operational, ongoing and contingency planning
The FIS module should include following parts:
• Optimization of a short-term harvest schedule (MHG)
• Daily planning for harvesting operations (BOKU)
• Logistics Optimization concerning the product flow (ITENE, MHG)
• Support for ongoing management activities(TRE)
• Modelling of contingency plans including risk management (BOKU, MHG)
Development of guidelines and indications for short-term optimization for the
daily planning (CNR, BOKU)
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Flow charts of harvesting operations
• Evaluation for the current system
and the SLOPE system
• The work flow is displayed in flow
charts

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Unexpected events during harvesting
operations
• The influencing events were
displayed in flow charts
• A list of suggestions for avoidance
of these events

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Examples of unexpected events
Unexpected events Avoidance
1 Cable yarder must wait until tree
is felled
Better coordination of workflows,
training, work experience, shift of
workforce
2 Forest worker must wait for
carriage
Better coordination of workflows,
training, work experience
3 Processor operator must wait for
carriage
Better coordination of workflows,
training, work experience
4 New software doesn’t work (RFID
tags, RFID reader, intelligent
carriage, intelligent harvester
head, intelligent truck…)
Checking software
5 traceability of the RFID tags after
logging is not possible
Subsequent marking with new tags
6 Lost RFID tags during harvesting
operations
Subsequent marking with new tags

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Working safety risks in the timber
supply chain
Manual felling
Falling objects
Log extraction
Machinery hitting
Log landing
Chain shot
Loading, transport and unloading
Log moving in risk zone
Maintenance of access roads
Accessability
General hazard
Weather conditions
Source: Safe Work Australia, 2014 Stampfer, 2015

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Variables, which are influencing or
limiting harvesting operations
• Identification of important variables
• Description of variables
• Effect of increase or decrease
• Examples of influence for productivity
models

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Optimization of logistics
• Optimization of transport distance
• Consideration of truck category
• It is possible to add customers,
storages, harvesting plots
• Possibility of scenario analysis

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Outlook
• Implementation into SLOPE FIS
• Decision which components to be implemented
• Contingency plans
• Productivity models
• Optimization model
• Cooperation/Solutions from sister project FOCUS
• Interface between Woodlandmanager and IPTIM
• Finalization of the deliverable D5.04: September 2016

40. Contact info
Martin Kühmaier: martin.kuehmaier@boku.ac.at
Thank you for your attention
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41. Project SLOPE
T.5.5 – Mid-long term optimization, strategic
and tactical planning
Trento, July 5th, 2016
Huurinainen Seppo, Rasinmäki Jussi, Plosila Veli-Matti
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42. Contents of the presentation
1. Overview
2. Introduction
3. Iptim software as a Tool
4. Tasks to be completed
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43. Overview
• Status: 65%
• Length: 20 Months (From M8 to M27)
• Involved Partners
• Leader: MHG
• Participants: GRAPHITECH, CNR, TRE, ITENE
Aim: In the task a module will be developed for the FIS that will
support the planning task of optimally allocating harvests to the
forest area in 1-10 years timeframe to meet the targets for
harvested volume
Output: D.5.05 (M28)
- Mid/Long-term optimization module of the FIS
Delay due to Simosol has been focusing on FOCUS project
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44. Introduction 1/2
This FIS module should include following parts:
• produce harvesting and sales plans that are realistic and achievable. This is done
by supporting easy updating of growth models to track developments in the research
in the area, and by simulating at stand level different alternatives for the type,
intensity and timing of the management actions that are all viable options for the
management of the stand considering the operational constraint in the mountain
forests (BOKU).
• produce harvesting and sales plans that are optimal within the parameters set by
the previous item. Goals can be set to minimize harvesting cost or maximize the net
present value of the cash flow generated over the planning horizon; the optimization
process will include spatial and temporal clustering functionality, in order to
produce optimal starting point for short-term operational planning; i.e. in order to
make utilization of harvesting machinery and workforce as efficient as possible (Task
5.4) these aspects are already taken into account when producing long-term harvest
scheduling plans (TRE, CNR).
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45. Introduction 1/2
This FIS module should include following parts:
• support for monitoring the quality of management plans, based on the accumulated
historical time series, by maintaining a data repository over time of the information
gathered with sensors during the inventory and harvest operations (GRAPHITECH, FLY,
TRE)
- IPTIM
• support the adaptation of the plans, and re-planning, based on the accumulated
supply chain information in the FIS; i.e. for the long-term plans a continuous and
adaptive planning approach will be supported (BOKU, CNR).
- IPTIM
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46. IPTIM as aTOOL
Further develop and implement procedures/algorithms
developed in the sister project, FOCUS
(biomass and industrial timber supply chains – Finland &
Belgium pilots)
www.iptim.com
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47. Modeling – growth & yield
‣ A set of model systems for both yield prediction at stand level
and growth predictions at tree level available
‣ Inventory data used to calibrate the model systems
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48. Produce harvesting and sales plans that are realistic and
achievable (BOKU)
• Topic: produce harvesting and sales plans that are
realistic and achievable. This is done by supporting
easy updating of growth models to track
developments in the research in the area, and by
simulating at stand level different alternatives for the
type, intensity and timing of the management actions
that are all viable options for the management of the
stand considering the operational constraint in the
mountain forests.
• IPTIM; group of mathematic equations
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49. Produce harvesting and sales plans that are optimal within
parameters (TRE, CNR)
Topic: produce harvesting and sales plans that are optimal within the
parameters set by the previous item. Goals can be set to minimize
harvesting cost or maximize the net present value of the cash flow
generated over the planning horizon; the optimization process will
include spatial and temporal clustering functionality, in order to
produce optimal starting point for short-term operational planning;
i.e. in order to make utilization of harvesting machinery and
workforce as efficient as possible (Task 5.4) these aspects are already
taken into account when producing long-term harvest scheduling
plans.
- Average prices to be used (Italy, Bolzon etc.)
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50. Support the adaptation of the plans, and re-planning
(BOKU, CNR)
Topic: support the adaptation of the plans, and re-planning, based
on the accumulated supply chain information in the FIS; i.e. for the
long-term plans a continuous and adaptive planning approach will
be supported
- Woodlandmanager + IPTIM
- Mobile app for real-time storage management developed and
integrated with the FIS
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51. Data Integration
JSON Data
SLOPE FIS
Web Service
SLOPE FIS Database
IPTIM
Woodlandmanager
• Extend SLOPE FIS Web Service when needed
Interface to be completed in
September resulting in commercial
add-value services for forest owners
using WM in Finland
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52. Results
• Models for mid-long-term harvesting planning (demo site)
• Process models
• Indicators for mid-long term planning
• Profits
• Costs
• Guidelines to optimize planning
• Contingency plans
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53. Contact info
Seppo Huurinainen
Seppo.huurinainen@mhgsystems.com
Thank you for your attention.
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