Toward digital twins for sawmill production planning and control: benefits, opportunities, and challenges

S Chabanet, H Bril El-Haouzi, M Morin… - … Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Sawmills are key elements of the forest product industry supply chain, and they play
important economic, social, and environmental roles. Sawmill production planning and …

Coordination mechanisms with mathematical programming models for decentralized decision-making: a literature review

G Rius-Sorolla, J Maheut, S Estellés-Miguel… - … European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The increase in the complexity of supply chains requires greater efforts to align the activities
of all its members in order to improve the creation of value of their products or services …

Wood products manufacturing optimization: A survey

SM Hosseini, A Peer - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wood industry is a basic industry supplying primary materials to produce a wide range
of products. The wood processing in sawmills bridges the transformation flow of raw …

Deep reinforcement learning for continuous wood drying production line control

FA Tremblay, A Durand, M Morin, P Marier… - Computers in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Continuous high-frequency wood drying, when integrated with a traditional wood finishing
line, allows correcting moisture content one piece of lumber at a time in order to improve its …

Goal programming application for the decision support in the daily production planning of sawmills

D Broz, N Vanzetti, G Corsano, JM Montagna - Forest Policy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sawmills are a key element for the forest industry. It is not a simple task to plan correctly their
production, taking into account that there are many criteria that are appropriate for their …

Simulation-optimisation based framework for Sales and Operations Planning taking into account new products opportunities in a co-production context

J Wery, J Gaudreault, A Thomas, P Marier - Computers in industry, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The North American lumber industry produces mostly commodity products (ie
products with standard dimensions and properties). However, some customers also want …

A qualitative exploration of the wood product supply chain–investigating the possibilities and desirability of an increased demand orientation

MA Hoogstra-Klein, K Meijboom - Forest Policy and Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
For the forest sector, it is important to produce wood in an efficient and cost-effective way,
while at the same time satisfying customer needs. This requires careful management of the …

The value of integrated tactical planning optimization in the lumber supply chain

OS Bajgiran, MK Zanjani, M Nourelfath - International Journal of Production …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigates the integrated annual planning of harvesting, procurement,
production, distribution, and sale activities in the lumber supply chain. The problem is …

A decentralized supply chain planning model: a case study of hardboard industry

P Ghasemi, K Khalili-Damghani, A Hafezolkotob… - … International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
This paper presents a new decentralized/distributed decision-making (DDM) supply chain
planning model. A supply chain is called decentralized when various decisions are made in …

The Argentinian forest sector: opportunities and challenges in supply chain management

DR Broz, DA Rossit, DG Rossit, A Cavallin - 2018 - rid.unam.edu.ar
The rise in the worldwide demand of forest products of the last decades predicts an
expansion of the forest harvesting industry. In this context, the Argentinian Northeastern …