Optimizing the wood supply chain in Calabria: from harvest site to the mill of wood process
Author(s)
Macrì, Giorgio
Date Issued
April 20, 2018
Type
Doctoral Thesis
Abstract
This PhD thesis research project aims to develop, through innovative approaches, and to integrate systems to make competitive and environmentally compatible logistics, harvesting and transport of wood assortments up to destinations in treatment and industrial processing. During recent years, novel technologies and methods for the utilization of wood have been suggested and introduced so as to enhance the wood supply chain. The phases of harvesting, processing and wood processing provide decisive technological innovations to improve quality, to reduce costs, to create new types of products to enhance the end-uses of the raw material and wood. In particular, wood harvesting has always represented one of the most important management interventions, not only in meeting production objectives but also in shaping the composition (biodiversity, etc.) for the future of forests and in the last fifty years several techniques have been developed to increase operator productivity, work qualifications and occupational safety. The efficiency and functionality of a particular harvesting system depends on a number of characteristics. For this reason, along with technical analysis in production processes, it is expected to conduct a thorough analysis of the economy related to the technical-technological solutions proposed in the various production processes for the entire wood supply chain. For the purpose of an overall improvement in the efficiency of labour, economic analysis and comparison of solutions, this study has been conducted using the interaction between operating costs of labour of machinery but also the analysis to the overall consumption resources participating in the process chain. After the highlighting of the most critical points of wood supply chain, in the results possible actions have been indicated to overcome them.
La presente tesi di dottorato ha inteso sviluppare le attività di raccolta e il trasporto degli assortimenti legnosi, attraverso l’integrazione di nuovi sistemi e tecniche di ricerca per rendere competitive e ambientalmente compatibili l’intera Filiera Foresta - Legno. Le fasi di raccolta, lavorazione e trasformazione del legno richiedono innovazioni tecnologiche fondamentali per migliorare la qualità, ridurre i costi di produzione realizzando nuove tipologie di prodotto che soddisfino il mercato. Insieme all’analisi tecnica nei processi produttivi, si è previsto di condurre un’analisi approfondita degli aspetti tecnico-economici collegati alle soluzioni tecnologiche (macchine e impianti) prospettate nei diversi processi produttivi per l’intera filiera del legno. Ai fini di un miglioramento complessivo dell’efficienza del lavoro, lo studio condotto dalla seguente tesi di dottorato ha valutato sia i parametri operativi dei cantieri di raccolta e di trasformazione impegnate in campo e sia i consumi complessivi delle risorse forestali che partecipano al processo di filiera.
Additional information
Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze, tecnologie e biotecnologie per la sostenibilità
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