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FEASIBILITY AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A HIGHLY FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING FACILITY
- Partners:
NSERC, Kalesnikoff Lumber Co., Forintek Canada Corp., WoodFlow Systems Corp.
- Team:
Thomas Maness, Darrell Wong, Steve Thoews, Saba Vahid, Catalin Ristea, André Schuetz
- Status:
in-progress
PRODUCTION
PLANNING FOR VALUE-ADDED MANUFACTURING
- Partners:
Slocan Forest Products / WoodFlow Systems Corp.
- Project
description
- Team:
Ross Farrell, Thomas Maness, André Schuetz, Duane
Foley
- Status:
Completed project
ANALYSIS OF WOOD FLOW FROM PRIMARY TO SECONDARY WOOD PRODUCERS
IN BC
- Partners:
Slocan Forest Products / Arrow Forest License Group
- Team:
Tim Caldecott, Lynda Janssen, Thomas Maness, Robert Kozak
- Status:
Completed project
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Haartveit, E., R.A. Kozak and T.C.
Maness. 2004. Supply Chain Management Mapping for the Forest
Products Industry: Three Cases from Western Canada. Journal of
Forest Products Business Research, Volume No. 1, Article 5.
Maness, T.C. and R. Farrell. 2004. A Multi-Objective Scenario
Evaluation Model for Sustainable Forest Management Using Criteria
and Indicators. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34(10) 14
pgs.
Farrell, R. and T.C. Maness. 2004. A relational database approach
to a linear programming based DSS for production planning in
secondary wood products manufacturing. Decision Support Systems.
Accepted for publication in February 2004.
Kozak, R.A., T.C. Maness and T. Caldecott. 2003. Solid wood
supply impediments for secondary wood producers in British Columbia.
The Forestry Chronicle. 79(6):1107-1120
Maness,
T.C. and D.C. Wong. 2002. A Benchmarking System for Evaluating
the Profitability and Eficiency of Optimizing Chop Saw Systems.
Forest Prod. J. 52(10):52-61.
Maness, T.C. and S.E. Norton. 2002. Multiple Period Combined
Optimization Approach to Forest Production Planning. Scand.
J. For. Res. 17:460-471.
Donald,
W.S., Maness, T.C. and Marinescu, M.V. 2001. Production
Planning for Integrated Primary and Secondary Lumber Manufacturing.
Wood and Fiber Science, 33(3), 2001, pp.334-344.
Chow, G.R. 1998. A Comparison of Twenty Simulated Strategies
for Achieving Maximum Parts Recovery in Optimizing Chop Saw
Operations. Masters thesis, supervisor: Dr. Thomas C. Maness,
Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada.
Wong, D.C., T.C. Maness and R. Zwick. 1998. Automatic Chop
Saw Systems: An Evaluation Method and Performance Benchmarks.
Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Working Paper WP-98-09.
Maness, T.C. and D.M. Adams. 1991. The Combined Optimization
of Log Bucking and Sawing Strategies. Wood and Fibre Science,
23(2): 296-314.
Lin,
Y. and Maness, T.C. An adaptive optimization method for economic
control of optimizing chop saw systems. Submitted November
2004 to European Journal of Operational Research.
Lin,
Y. and Maness, T.C. A Real Time Goal-Seeking Model for Optimizing
Chop Saw Systems. Submitted November 2004 to the Forest Products
Journal.
Marinescu,
M.V., T.C. Maness and T. Sowlati. 2003. Forest planning and
timber allocation using data envelopment analysis. Submitted
September 2003 to Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
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Maness,
T.C. and R. A. Farrell. 2003. Sensitivity Analysis for SFM
Criteria and Indicators Using Multi-Criteria Optimization.
In: Bevers, Michael; Barrett, Tara M., comps. 2004. Systems
Analysis in Forest Resources: Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium;
October 7-9, Stevenson, WA. Proceedings RMRS-P-000. Ogden,
UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain
Research Station.
Wong
, D.C. , and T.C Maness. 1999. Factors affecting the profitability
and yield of optimizing chop saws. 14 International Wood Machining
Seminar. Epinal, France.
Maness,
T.C. 2003. A review of criteria and indicators for sustainable
forest management: indicators obtainable from GIS mapping and
production modeling for use in operational planning. Project
report for Forest Innovation and Investment and working paper
published by the Research Collaborative for Business and Operations
Management. Faculty of Forestry. University of British Columbia.
Vancouver, BC.
Maness,
T.C. and R. A. Farrell. 2003. A Multi-Objective Scenario Evaluation
Model for Sustainable Forest Management Using Criteria and
Indicators. Project report for Forest Innovation and Investment
and working paper published by the Research Collaborative for
Business and Operations Management. Faculty of Forestry. University
of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC.
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