Forest-to-Product Modeling

FOREST PLANNING METHODS TO REDUCE COSTS AND ENHANCE VALUE RECOVERY IN SUSTAINABLY MANAGED FORESTS

• Partners: Canfor Corporation / WoodFlow Systems Corp.
• more about this project on the project website
• Project Team: Thomas Maness, Robert Kozak, John Nelson, Jan Aune (WoodFlow), Vic Komori (Canfor), Mark Boyland, Katie Maness, Shea Pletzer, Catalin Ristea, Andre Schuetz, Brad Seely
• Status: project is underway

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FOREST TO PRODUCT LAND-USE PLANNING USING HIERARCHICAL PLANNING

• Partners: NSERC / CFS / WoodFlow Systems Corp. / Slocan Forest Products
• Project description
• Research Team: Thomas Maness, Marian Marinescu, Ross Farrell, Andre Schuetz, Duane Folley
• Status: Completed project
• Reports: 3 papers in progress (Marian Marinescu, Taraneh Sowlati, Thomas Maness)

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Schwab, O. T.C Maness, G. Bull, and D. Roberts.  2008. Modelling the effect of changing market conditions on mountain pine beetle salvage harvesting in British Columbia.  Submitted to Canadian Journal of Forest Research. December 2008

Schwab, O. and T.C Maness.  2008. Building spatial forest inventories from aggregated data.  Submitted to Journal of Forestry.  November 2008

Schwab, O. and T.C Maness.  2008. Modelling structural development in the forest sector with the EWA-Lite algorithm.  Submitted to Forest Science.  November 2008

Maness, T.C., S. Vahid and O. Schwab.  2008.  Order driven supply chain models for just in time manufacturing in the forest products industry.  Technical paper prepared for Forest Products Innovation Canada.  April 2008. 47 pp

Vahid, S. and TC Maness.  2008.  Techniques for modelling product demand in supply chain optimization models.  Submitted to the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling.  November 2008

Maness, T.C.  2008.  Best practices in the Latin American forest products industry: some lessons for British Columbia.  Technical paper prepared for Forest Products Innovation Canada.  August 2008.  37 pp

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