AIS Application Integration Tracability

Purpose and goal

A successful project would bring two key products for the company´s future growth, a world class timber measurement system and a traceability system that provides new opportunities for production optimization and also provide a platform for further application development. These will complement the other products and make the whole product range more attractive. These objectives have been well met by research efforts in this project, that have created the conditions for these two products as well as opportunities for additional products, such as non-contact strength grading.

Expected results and effects

Combination of 3D and X-ray: The project has resulted in two methods to combine 3D and X-ray scanning. Non-contact traceability system: The project has shown that it is possible to obtain high accuracy in a non-contact method of tracing the production from logs to sawn goods. Improved quality prediction: The project has also resulted in methodology for using multivariate data analysis of the traced data set in order to fully automatically create new predictive models. . The research project has already led to an increase in demand of our products in the market.

Planned approach and implementation

The project has included two sessions of data sampling at a host sawmill, where the production was manually traced from logs to sawn goods. These data were used to first develop and then validate the developed methods. All research was conducted in collaboration between RemaSawco and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.