Over the years, Operational Research (OR) has been used extensively to support the forest products industry and public forestry organizations (e.g., governments, environmental protection groups) in their respective ...

Water erosion has been a major environmental problem associated to forest harvesting operations in humid and temperate climates. The incorporation of this factor in the decision making process has been complex due to the ...

The operational productivity and costs of tree felling operations can be influenced by several factors, among which, the machine characteristics, slope class, the cutting area and the individual volume of the trees stand ...

This article presents a mathematical model for the problem of production and logistics in the forest industry. Specifically, a dynamic model of mixed-integer programming was formulated to solve three common problems in the ...

When a company is integrated vertically, it can manage and plan its overall value chain in one direct and integrated approach. However in many cases, companies follow a decoupled approach where forests and production plants ...

El Sistema Modular constituye una herramienta de planificación que permite a un productor forestal cumplir con los estándares de manejo forestal sostenible, en preparación para una evaluación con miras a lograr la ...

A column generation based algorithm for optimally solving a daily log routing problem in the Argentinean forest industry is presented in this work. Minimum-cost truck-routes are dynamically generated by two complementary ...