We are pleased to announce that the DiagFor, our continuous improvement tool for logging contractors, has been updated! DiagFor is short for Diagnostic for Forest contractors. It is an online questionnaire designed as a benchmarking…
Forestry
Precision forestry; Indigenous forestry
One important component of FPInnovations’ Transportation and Infrastructure group work over the past months is the research on truck platooning, where two or more vehicles in a convoy are operating in a close following formation…
It is obvious that Internet has become an integral part of our daily personal and work lives and a fundamental driver of productivity. However, we take Internet connectivity and LTE networks for granted and often…
Timber cruising, forest inventory, and other related data collection methods that help managing forest operations and logging activities are necessary but expensive, mainly because conventional ground methods are labor intensive. On the other hand, projected…
FPInnovations’ forest-operations experts are giving a free online workshop based on the Diag-For diagnostic tool for forest operations beginning in August. The 2-hour online French-language workshop organized by ForêtCompétences will review the eight key responsibilities…
Roads built over weak soils reduce allowable truck payloads, inhibit vehicle traction, pose a safety hazard, and lead to higher road maintenance costs over time. Critically weak road sections also reduce transportation efficiency thus limiting…
FPInnovations is moving full speed ahead with its automated-harvesting project to usher in a new era of forestry machinery with an eye to one day operating fully autonomous machines. Much of the forestry equipment in…
Switching from 8-axle B-trains to 9-axle B-trains has been gaining traction in Western Canada (pun intended). A new calculation recently developed by FPInnovations has led to the discovery of the real and remarkable benefits of…
FPInnovations has recently published several valuable resources and publications that cover a broad range of topics. Canadian CLT Handbook, 2nd edition Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is increasingly used in the sustainable construction of tall buildings and…
This article was originally published in Canadian Forest Industries. By Francis Charette, FPInnovations, research lead, forest engineering For the past three years, I have led a research program at FPInnovations called Forestry 4.0. Our objective…