Info-FORAC

INFO FORAC 2023

Coordination: Julien St-Louis & Sophie Bélanger-LeBel
English review: Dwain Richardson
Graphics: Sphynx Pub Inc.

• Production systems and the human equation
• Estimating carbon mtrics with machine learning
• Productivity benchmark for Quebec harvesting contractors
• Wood log detection and localisation
• Forest resource allocation in uncertain environments
• Tactical log-truck scheduling and routing problem with queuing
• Developping sorting and transportation strategies from forests to mills
• Designing a cold room network to store packaged seedlings
• Next-generation online training tool for forest logistics

INFO-FORAC-2022  – PDF 5.1 Mo

Coordination: Edith Brotherton & Sophie Bélanger-LeBel
English review: Dwain Richardson
Graphics: Sphynx Pub Inc.

• Management tools for supply predictability
• .Ktr file reader: evaluating the accuracy of measurement data
• Stand-specific working methods for harvester operators
• Monitoring and managing the performance of a forest entrepreneur fleet
• Linear neural network assisted ecoforestry map production
• Artifical intelligence supporting scalers: validating species of a load of wood
• An optimization tool for lumber production allocation and distribution
• Supporting research and building strong relationships with the industry: it's worth it!
• Acceleration of debitage simulations using deviation analysis
• Forest product demand analysis and forecasting tool
• Optimizing the allocation of modes of transportation in the Kruger distribution chain
• Collaboration for a control loop for a smart planer
• Autonomous navigation of a forwarder
• Strategic management of a log yard for coordination purposes

INFO-FORAC-2021  –  PDF 4.6 Mo

Coordination: Edith Brotherton & Sophie Bélanger-LeBel
English review: Aliké Harel
Graphics: Sphynx Pub Inc.

• The new normal
• Playing to better manage the industry logistical challenges
• Training and skill monitoring heavy machinery operators with a digital twin
• Characterization of wood piles at roadside
• Identifying cost-effective harvest systems for fragmented forests
• Automatic felling cut detection on trees
• FORAC ID: A forestry data integration (and exploitation) platform
• Multi-site reforestation value chain planning under uncertainty
• Integrating spraying and harvesting planning during an outbreak of spruce budworn
• Optimizing production allocation for a forest product value chain
• Developing a decision-making tool for coordinated production and inventory management
• Anticipating the production associated with debitting of a batch of logs
• Retroaction loop for a smart planer

INFO-FORAC-2020  –  PDF 2.8 Mo

Coordination: Edith Brotherton & Sophie Bélanger-LeBel
English review: Aliké Harel
Graphics: Sphynx Pub Inc.

• FORAC 4.0: Growing natural intelligence to support AI
• Data acquisition for a smart planer
• Configuring and operating a smart sawmill
• Towards the automation of basic forestry operations
• Backhauls and collaboration: impact on GHG emissions
• Planning the biomass supply chain for a new biorefinery in Mauricie
• Decision making in the forest value chain
• Coordination and management tools for the forest value chain
• Using more accurate and reliable frost depth data to improve transportation
• Supply-production coordination tool for agile management under uncertainty
• NSERC industrial chair for smart supply systems within the connected forest value chain
• Improving wood supply system for a more competitive forest product industry
• Increasing wood mobilization from private forests by coordinating production systems

INFO-FORAC-2019  –  Document PDF 3.2 Mo

Coordination: Edith Brotherton
English review: Aliké Harel
Graphics: Sphynx Pub Inc.

• Building the future together… with FORAC 4.0
• Forest supply chain design (Spruce budworn infestation)
• Calibration of Ponsse H7 harvester head: efforts and benefits
• Increasing the value-creation potential of strategic forest management plans
• Forest companies pooling their production capacities
• Improving the forest plants order and delivery process for reforestation
• Improving wood supply predictability
• Reducing transport cost with a better usage of transit wood yards
• Roadmap for the wood yard 4.0: first steps toward an automated management system
• Evaluating tactical-operational coordination mechanisms for sawmills
• Integrated demand management approaches for the softwood lumber industry
• Modelling forest logistics networks with a labour factor
• Collaborative transportation: start within the company

INFO-FORAC-2018  –  PDF 9.9 Mo

Coordination: Edith Brotherton & Catherine Lévesque
English review: Aliké Harel
Graphics: Sphynx Pub Inc.

• 1, 2, 3, ... 4.0, and GO!
• Decision theatre approach for participatory planning
• Saving transportation costs with backhauls
• Evaluating production planning and order management strategies for sawmills
• Collaboration and dynamic risk sharing in the forest supply chain
• Planning of wood drying operations: a transfer success
• Human-computer interaction to refine drying operation planning
• Towards the design of a logistical centre common to several forest companies
• Improving log yard performance
• Development of a sustainable and balanced tactical forest management plan: a case study
• Innovative logistic solutions for forest biomass procurement
• Visual bark classification using deep learning
• Collaborative forest procurement planning: the system-integrator

INFO-FORAC-2017  –  PDF 8.2 Mo

Coordination: Edith Brotherton & Catherine Lévesque
English review: Julia Power
Graphics: Sphynx Pub Inc.

• Forest fibre network design: a case study in newfoundland
• Benchmark and best practices guide for sorting/transit yards
• Creating sustainable value through the introduction of new products
• Designing a pilot plant for the biorefining of forest ressources
• Automatization of spatialized data preprocessing
• Real-time reoptimization of forest supply plans
• Optimization of wood procurement: benefits and requirements
• Anticipating lumber production for a better wood allocation
• Overview of ongoing research initiatives in collaborative road transport
• Assessing transportation strategies for carbon emission reduction
• Should we increase agility or improve supply predictability?
• Estimating the value creation of fibre supply using the annual allowable cut

Info-FORAC-2016  –  PDF 1,8 Mo

Coordination: Edith Brotherton & Catherine Lévesque
Graphics: Service de reprographie de l’Université Laval
English review: Julia Power

• Development of the forest biomass sector
• Woody biomass development in eastern québec
• Bucking automation: productivity and quality
• Maintenance management system for harvesting contractors
• Shared value park and new business model
• Improving wood yard performance
• Annual allowable cut and real harvest rate
• Science fair program
• Fire and strategic forest planning
• Kiln drying operation scheduling
• Order acceptance policies for sawmilling industry
• Decision support tool integrating environmental impacts
• Foreseeing the products of sawmilling
• Improving a hardwood flooring cutting process
• Planning process for a multi-plant system

Info-FORAC-2015  –  PDF 1,3 Mo

Coordination: Catherine Lévesque & Tasseda Boukherroub
Graphics: Service de reprographie de l’Université Laval
Review: Catherine Savard and Julia Power

• Agility: a necessity for competitiveness
• Carbon, biomass and forest management planning
• Supply strategies in a timber auction context
• Biomass supply from disturbed forests
• Science fair program
• Network optimization: supply and transportation of wood chips
• Planning tools: from theory to practice
• Commercial spatial analysis tools development: methodology and framework
• Evaluation of lumber market opportunities
• Replanning production operations while minimizing perturbations

Info-FORAC-2014  –  PDF 813 KB

Coordination: Catherine Lévesque & Line Simoneau
Graphics: Marie-Pier Laliberté & Réjean Gariépy
Review: Julie Richard & Julia Power

• Collaboration: reaping the rewards
• An educational game in collaborative logistics
• Control strategies for a forest supply chain
• Procurement planning process performance
• Carbon and wood products: obligations and opportunities
• Technology transfer: scheduling of lumber finishing operations
• Wood yard design

Info-FORAC-2013  –  PDF 272 KB

Graphics and coordination: Amélie Tremblay
Science fair coordination: Anis Ben Amor
Review: Julia Power

• The times they are a-changin’
• Dashboards: positioning for the future
• Collaboration in wood transportation
• Geographic information systems are here to stay
• Science Fair program: FORAC 10th anniversary: ideas, concepts... RESULTS
• Knowledge management and procurement planning
• Anticipating fibre consumption in forest management planning
• Optimization of forest and sawmills tactical planning

Info-FORAC-2012  –  PDF 409 KB

Coordination: Anis Ben Amor
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay & Marie-Pier Laliberté
Review: Phyllis Daly & Valérie Wulleman

• Excellence, Networking, relevance and communication
• Wood supply chains: description and evaluation
• Combinatorial timber auction
• Planning wood finishing operations
• Science fair 2012 program
• Designing bioenergy networks
• LogiLab and SilviLab: Integrated forest management
• Demand management in the softwood lumber industry

Info-FORAC-2011  –  PDF 339 KB

Coordination: Amélie Tremblay & Anis Ben Amor
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Phyllis Daly & Amélie Tremblay

• Director’s Letter
• Decision Framework for Investments and Production Strategies
• Knowledge Management and Decision-Making Performance
• Synchronization and Sustainability for Forest Industry
• Science Faire 2011 Program
• Decision Support Systems for Planning Operations
• Strategic Planning for Bioenergy Industry
• Downtime and Productivity in a Wood Planing Mill

Info-FORAC-2010  –  PDF 702 KB

Coordination: Amélie Tremblay & Jean-Roch Leclerc
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Phyllis Daly

• The Forest Industry: What Solutions to the Crisis?
• Study of Variation and its Financial Impact
• From Standard Enterprise to Agile and Learning Entreprise
• Strategic Re-Engineering of a Distribution Network
• Science Fair 2010 Program: The Next Generation Forest Industry
• Plan Harvesting in Order to Optimize the Forest Value Chain
• Optimize One's Network With LogiLab: a Step Ahead for the Industry
• Revenue Management in the Softwood Lumber Industry

INFO-FORAC-July-2008  –  PDF 155 Ko

Coordination: Amélie Tremblay
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Constance Van Horne & Phyllis Daly

• To give industry ways to stand out
• An efficient network to better serve the final customer
• Meeting forestry challenges through innovation
• Become a leader in a commodity market
• Fitting our offer to demand
• Procurement management: overcoming challenges!
• Solutions adapted to your firm
• Specialized software for lumber industry

INFO-FORAC-June-2008  –  PDF 356 Ko

Coordination: Marie-Josée Roy & Amélie Tremblay
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Constance Van Horne

• Inter-enterprise collaborations and incentives
• Managing revenue through supply chain management processes
• Towards a more agile and learning furniture company
• Adaptive planning agents
• Collaboration in transportation: a business opportunity!
• Sales & operations planning in a supply chain
• Agent-based simulations for advanced supply chain planning
• Creating and capturing value

INFO-FORAC-November-2007  –  PDF 291 Ko

Coordination: Mylène Lavoie
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Constance Van Horne

• Science Fair 2007: a reflection on our research
• Sharing territory, not always as easy as it sounds!
• Simulate client demand for better decision making
• The competitive advantage of mass customization
• Science Fair program
• The value of S&OP process in OSB industry
• Transportation as a competitive advantage
• Advertisements

INFO-FORAC-March-2007  –  PDF 546 Ko

Coordination: Mylène Lavoie
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Constance Van Horne & Pascale Plamondon

• The Quebec furniture industry
• Technology and entreprise agility
• Sawmill production planning
• Improving logistics in transportation
• Study on allocation of manufacturing capacity
• Some avenues for solutions for SMEs
• Business development: structuring marketing for SMEs
• To learn with the Web
• It's moving at FORAC!
• Planning  change, source of success
• Integrated services offer
• Advertisements

INFO-FORAC-November-2006  –  PDF 327 Ko

Coordination: Mylène Lavoie
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Constance Van Horne & Pascale Plamondon

• Software solution for sawmill planning
• A multi-behavior agent model for planning
• Tool for jumbo rolls
• Managing key business processes
• Marketing research!
• The changing face of the Extranet!
• Internship at Anthony-Domtar
• An example of synergy between internships and the SME program
• MAIBEC : Adding value
• Student News
• Advertisements

INFO-FORAC-June-2006  –  PDF 338 Ko

Coordination: Mylène Lavoie
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Constance Van Horne

• Investing in logistics to better manage costs
• You are my best supplier!
• Inter-Firm Collaboration
• The value of collaboration in the OSB industry
• FORAC Summer School - Presentation and Schedule
• Analysing business models in the furniture industry
• The mass customization in the furniture industry
• FORAC/Q-WEB Conference
• PARIM: Research Partnership in the Quebec furniture industry
• Advertisements

INFO-FORAC-March-2006  –  PDF 884 Ko

Coordination: Mylène Lavoie
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Constance Van Horne

• New challenges await FORAC researchers
• Demand management for a network of sawmills
• Experimental platform: testing and validation
• What is tactical planning?
• Distributed wood procurement planning
• Word from the honorary president
• Maintenance: a critical problem
• Mass customization of prefabricated wood framing systems
• Continuous improvement: an exemple of intervention
• The CED–FORAC Partnership
• Advertisements

INFO-FORAC-November-2005  –  PDF 438 Ko

Coordination: Mylène Lavoie
Graphics: Amélie Tremblay
Translation: Constance Van Horne

• A new energy for 2007-2011
• A potential solution for lumber trade dispute?
• Markets and design of supply chains
• From the forest to the furniture mills
• Interns in action!
• Always closer to SME
• Statistics applied to forestry
• Kruger
• Advertisements

INFO-FORAC-June-2005  –  PDF 858 Ko

By Mylène Lavoie, Philippe Marier, Charles Pomerleau, Amélie Tremblay, Constance Van Horne

• From vision to action
• Advanced planning software solutions for sawmill
• The value of innovative knowledge and innovation
• FORAC research projects summary
• Research diffusion: gauging our success
• Science fair 2005
• Bowater
• Our team's profile
• Upcoming conferences
• News

INFO-FORAC-March-2005  –  PDF 1.81 Mo

By Mylène Lavoie, Philippe Marier, Charles Pomerleau, Amélie Tremblay, Constance Van Horne

• Brazil: an eye opening experience!
• Supply Chain flow planning integration
• The Bullwhip Effect
• Strategic planning model for pulp and paper industry
• Summer School 2005
• Vision 2015
• Q-WEB/FORAC Conference
• Regional Seminar "Client centered thinking"
• New course: Applied statistics for forestry
• Assistance for SMES
• Shermag: in constant improvement
• News

INFO-FORAC-November-2004  –  PDF 937 Ko

By Mylène Lavoie, Philippe Marier, Charles Pomerleau, Constance Van Horne

• China: Attractive market or not?
• FORAC Science Fair
• Developing a value creation network: from fiber to paper
• Synergy between internships and research projects
• Summer and Fall 2004 internships
• The Quebec Wood Supply Game: innovative and realistic
• FERIC: New FORAC’s Technological Partner
• News

INFO-FORAC-June-2004  –  PDF 1.13 Mo

By Mylène Lavoie, Hanen Bouchriha, Philippe Marier, Nadia Lehoux, Constance Van Horne

• Hierarchical operations planning in the lumber industry
• IKEA: A supply chain example in the forest product industry
• Forest level bucking problem
• For an improved management of the value creation network of the Quebec furniture industry
• Optimizing sawmill operations in the case of pattern generation using price lists
• Quality presentations at the FORAC Summer School
• Robert Beauregard Profile (Associate Professor FORAC)
• A winning strategy: focusing on the needs of our clients (DOMTAR)

INFO-FORAC-March-2004  –  PDF 666 Ko

By Mylène Lavoie, Hanen Bouchriha, Philippe Marier, Nadia Lehoux, Constance Van Horne

• The Client: At the Center of our Thinking
• Emerging Markets: New Clientele for the Lumber Industry
• Demand Management: Synchronising Client Needs and Sawmill Production
• Bullwhip Effect: The Impact on the Client
• E-Marketing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Changing Client Requirements: Where do Shippers Turn for Long-Term Supply Chain Excellence?

INFO-FORAC-November-2003  –  PDF 340 Ko

By Mylène Lavoie, Hanen Bouchriha, Martin Cloutier, Philippe Marier, Line Simoneau, Nadia Lehoux, Constance Van Horne

• Wood procurement planning in a multi-firm environment
• Inter-enterprise collaboration and collaboration tools
• Optimisation of forestry transportation routes
• FORAC, more than just research
• Forintek-FORAC: a partnership with synergy
• The fall interships have begun!
• Profile: Alain Martel
• Visit by Mikael Rönnqvist
• Visit to Chilli
• Client centred thinking: a strategic decision
• Did you know that?

INFO-FORAC-June-2003  –  PDF 316 Ko

By Mylène Lavoie, Hanen Bouchriha, Martin Cloutier, Philippe Marier, Line Simoneau, Constance Van Horne

• The network: a prerequisite for value creation
• Reorganising the value creation network
• A winning synergy in the production of knowledge: the case of three FORAC Doctoral projects
• Timber drying: aiding planning operations to increase profitability
• Knowledge management, to better grow together!
• Organising knowledge at FORAC
• The CRIQ - a centre of expertise and innovation
• Satellite seminars of the XII World Forestry Congress
• FORAC summer school - A success!
• Return from New Zealand
• News

INFO-FORAC-March 2003  –  PDF 260 Ko

By Mylène Lavoie, Hanen Bouchriha, Sophie D'Amours, Philippe Marier, Alain Rousseau, Constance Van Horne

• The FORAC objective: to generate value!
• Survey on the state of e-business
• Contract management: an important problem
• Profile: Denis Brière
• On-line training by FORAC: One more step towards knowledge
• Experiment action platform
• News