Indisputable Key

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Indisputable Key

• Industrial breakthrough of new methods and
  technologies in the wood industry
• EFORWOOD - SHAPE YOUR SUSTAINABILITY TOOLS
• Uppsala, 2009-09-23
• Gunnar Niblaeus, Dissemination Exploitation
  manager

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Who am I?

• Gunnar Niblaeus
• M.Sc, BA
• Working in the Forest industry and related
  industries since 1973
• Specialized in IT business consulting
• Represents Tieto in the project Indisputable
  Key
• Work package leader Dissemination Exploitation

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The challenge!
Proper raw material for specific final products
- a major challenge for the forestry-wood
production!
25 million m3 of wood raw material in Europe is
going to waste!
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The general problem

• Knowledge about wood properties and their impact
  on final products is insufficient for achieving a
  significantly improved yield.
• Some practical examples
• Production of low moisture content wood mostly
  gives a high percentage of rejects due to warp
• During production of high strength wood beams the
  amount of beams that cannot be approved can be
  numerous
• To achieve boards having a sufficient amount of
  heart wood big amounts of boards normally have to
  be downgraded

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Postulate conclusion

• Knowledge about wood properties and their impact
  on quality and the final end-use of wood products
  helps to choose the most suitable log for a
  specific product already in the forest. This
  contributes to significantly reduced amount of
  waste due to improper wood characteristics.

Automatic traceability systems making information
available about individual objects at different
stages along the forestry-wood supply chain are
required.
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Indisputable Key

• Objectives
• Develop necessary methodology and advanced ICT
  solutions for improving the use of wood and
  optimizing forest production
• Demonstrate the concept and its benefits
• 12,7 M financed to 50 by EU (FP6)
• From October 2006 to March 2010
• 28 partners, more than 150 participants
• RD Institutes, universities

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Drivers for Improvement

• Yield
• How to maximize the value yield of an
  increasingly expensive raw material?
• Process
• How to minimize downgrading?
• Continuous improvement of production efficiency
• Continuous improvement of logistics and
  transports
• Innovation
• How to use raw material characteristics for
  innovative product development?
• Collaboration
• Increased flexibility in the value chain, manage
  changes
• Exchange of information
• Environment
• Environmental performance as competitive edge
• Guarantee Certificate of origin
• How to stop illegal cutting?

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Information barriers
Local information from different actors in
specific formats
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Technical barriers Marking Reading

• Common requirements
• Extremely demanding environment
• Cost justified
• High readability
• RFID technology
• Pulpable transponders
• Automatically applicable on logs
• Reading distance several meters
• Reader in harvester head
• Ink-based marking reading
• Able to separate millions of objects

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Human barriers

• Focus on cost, confused perception of benefits
• Unwillingness to share information
• Lack of skills
• Resistance to change
• Image of a Big Brother technique We are going
  to monitor everything

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Scope content
Tracing from forest to end-user with accurate,
real-time data

• Information exchange based upon open standards
• Models and indicators for economical and
  environmental performance
• RFID technology for code marking reading
• Other technologies for marking and reading
• Software modules for integration and tracing
  services
• Preparing for real industrial use
• Real industrial implementations
• Training programs and material

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What is needed to install a traceability system?

• A real business case
• Marking and reading technology
• Infrastructure for data management
• Software for analyzis and monitoring
• Models for evaluation, simulation and optimization

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Digital Forest Chain

• Common vocabulary
• Using and extending existing standards
  (EPCglobal, papiNet, StanforD).
• Defining IAD Message (Individual Associated Data
  Message) - extension to papiNet
• IT Architecture based on three corner stones
• Collaborative Messaging System enabling safe and
  confidential exchange of data between multiple
  actors
• IK Adapters, plug-in configurable adapters
  enabling quick and easy connection to existing
  systems
• Traceability Services including data repository,
  web-based software tools for analyzing and
  publishing data

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Software for data analysis and monitoring key
performance indicators

• Tracing the origin
• Traceability of the origin of an identified
  object
• Flexible software for analyzing data
• Correlations between measurements
• Deviations from expected performance
• Potential for process improvements
• Key performance indicators
• Tools for monitoring selected indicators with
  drill-down features
• Pre-defined environmental and economical KPIs

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State-of-the-art forest transponders

• Biodegradable substrate harmless in pulping and
  paper making processes
• Biodegradable antenna inlay solutions and inlay
  free solutions
• Material strength allows fast automatic
  application into wood by punching
• Inexpensive manufacturing by injection flow
  molding
• High readability even under worst conditions
• Reading distance 2 - 6 meters
• Same tag can also be applied manually
• Two patents applied for transponders

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Manual application of transponders
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Automatic application of transponders
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Ink-based marking reading of logs

• Saw integrated printer
• 10 nozzles in the sword
• Unique matrix code is printed when cutting
• Code detection
• Camera and image analysis

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Conclusion
Material flow
Transport
Reception
Sawing
Sorting
Final cut
Harvesting
Introducing a knowledge-based way of working gt
decisions and actions based on measurements and
information feed-back
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