RESEARCH PROJECTS

Current Projects

• Klimastabile Wälder
• BiomassTradeCentreII - Auf- und Ausbau von Biomassehöfen zur nachhaltigen Mobilisierung örtlicher Energieholz-Ressourcen
• Virtual Forest III – Sub-project "Improvement of the timber harvesting simulation tool and conceptual development of assistance systems and automation modes of operation"
• Cost Action FP0902: Development and harmonisation of new operational research and assessment procedures for sustainable forest biomass supply

Finished Projects

2013

• KLIP 24a - Development of tools for regional initiatives to establish short term rotation plantations (KUP)

2012

• Optimization of extraction and roundwood transportation by using swap bodies

2011

• WASP - Wood Application Service Providing
• The use of RFID for electronic delivery receipts and the warehouse management in the timber value added chain

2010

• Evolution of damaged and undamaged beech and spruce regeneration after timber harvesting
• COST STSM FP0902 - Simulation System Core Software Technology
• Realization of logistic advantages through cooperation in round wood supply

2009

• Knowledge transfer and exchange of experiences about success-factors and risks for the management of forest operations in private and communal forests.
• Process reenginering and life cycle assessment of the wood chips supply chain in cooperation with forest owners, logging and transport contractors and heating/power plant companies.
• The potential for improvements on harvesting energy wood by using the ABAB feller-buncher systems as well as the ABAB Carrier.
• The use of Auto-ID in the timber supply chain from roundwood to sawnwood to ensure the traceability and to control the material flow
• SMEuFire - Fallstudien über die Brennstoffversorgung von Heiz(kraft)werken. Wissenstransfer von Marktsituation und eingesetzter Technologie in ausgewählten Ländern der EU.
• Optimization of roundwood transport by cross-company route planning

2008

• Integration of decision support components

2007

• Comparisons of harvesting methods and recommendations for optimized logging operations in naturally structured regeneration stands.
• Analysis about the potentials and fields of application of NaarvaGrip felling heads within the supply of forest energy wood

2006

• Design of multilingual teachware based on international standards
• Developing a demonstration of implementing a harvesting simulation into the "virtual forest" in NRW
• Reorganisation of information and timber flow processes in the timber supply chain using the RFID technology
• Potentials and fields of application of Ponsse`s combined machine WISENT DUAL

2005

• Documenting the development of a harvesting simulation software used as a decision support tool for planning processes in forestry
• Using simulation software for decision support in planning harvesting and logging operations
• Forest owner associations-logistics study: Optimization of selected timber harvesting chains and mobilisation in private forests in the region of upper Bavaria
• EU Twinning - Slovakia

2004

• Possibilities of rationalisation of timber transport by using the VALMETrailer system - range of application, performance and costs -
• Cooperations in the sawmilling business

2003

• Productivity and organisational requirements for the use of single grip harvesters demonstrated by the example of two machine-workshops of the Bavarian State Forest Service
• Investigations towards the combimachine Valmet 801 Combi

2002

• Improvement of the information flow in the timber supply chain by the application of Geomail
• Three dimensional visualisation of supply cable ways in the "Hohe Tauern" national park
• Damages to natural regeneration caused by logging with single-grip-harvesters
• Damages to residual stand and natural regeneration, effects on the stand structure and productivity of logging operations

2001

• The track-based steep slope harvester Valmet 911

2000 and older

• Impact of windthrow and harvesting operations on spruce-fir-beech-preregeneration
• Design of a productivity model for single grip harvesters for the analysis of their operational potential in sustainable forest management
• Implementation of winch assisted harvesting systems in the state forest of Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Type and intensity of felling and skidding damages to the natural regeneration in a spruce-fir-beech stand
• Interactions between stand structure, biological rationalisation and forest techniques in Bavarian spruce/beech forest districts