Wood transport & logistics resources now on line

Friday 26 Apr 2013

 
At the end of last year close to 300 forestry managers, forest owners, harvest and transport planners, transport companies and harvesting contractors attended FIEA’s very popular ForestTECH 2012 series. It was the largest gathering of forestry operational staff seen for some time. The theme for the technology series was “Improving Wood Transport & Logistics”.

ForestTECH 2012 covered:

Analysis of successful international models for supply chain optimisation

• Remote sensing and real-time tracking of logs and wood products

• Innovative systems that integrate planning, operations, harvesting & sales

• Materials handling, packaging, freight forwarding and distribution developments

• Key issues facing the freight, shipping and transport industries

• Innovations for improving harvest optimisation

FIEA members can now download selected presentations from the event by clicking here. Resources on this page now total 600 presentations from recent technology events which can be accessed exclusively by FIEA members. It’s now one of the region’s most comprehensive forestry and wood products technology resources.

Presentations include;

- Fast Truck Now and the Way Forward, Mauricio Acuna, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Forest Operations Research Alliance, Australia

- Cable Harvest Planning Solution , Philip Elworthy, Forest Services Manager, Rayonier NZ, New Zealand

- Designing & Implementing Low Cost Solutions for Transport & Delivery Efficiencies, Adrian Hatch, GM Sales, ForestrySA

- Developing the Climb Max Steep Country Harvester, Kerry Hill, MD, AW Trinder Engineering and Nigel Kelly, MD, Kelly Logging, New Zealand

- Cloud Computing for Forest Inventory and Harvest Planning, Enda Keane, CEO, Treemetrics, Ireland

- Innovative Tools to Improve Integration & Planning through the Wood Supply, Dr Luc LeBel, Professor, Laval University, Canada

- Evolution and Use of Central Dispatch in Australia, Cameron MacDonald, Chief Operating Officer, HVP Plantations, Australia

- Exploring the Operational Realities of Applying Optimised Transportation, Damien O'Reilly, Regional Manager, Forests NSW, Australia

- Transport Logistics Solver, David Robinson, Chief Operating Officer, Nelson Management, New Zealand

- Working with High Productivity Motor Vehicles, Warwick Wilshier, Managing Director, Wilshier & Williams, New Zealand

If as an FIEA member you have forgotten your access code, please contact: Jeannette.dekker@fiea.org.nz

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