Sunday 17.09.2006

13.30 Departure from the parking space in front of Kreutzwaldi 5, The University of Life Sciences. The bus will leave from there, who want's to go by your own car you can follow us or if you know how to get to Järvselja, you can go by yourself as well. We will gather all together in Järvselja about 14:30, to start a study tour at 15:00.

15.00- 18.00 Study tour to Järvselja Training and Experimental Forestry District (http://www.jarvselja.ee)

18.00 Ice-breaking reception in hunters castle of Järvselja

Monday 18.09.2006

8.00 Registration begins

10.00 – 13.00 Plenary session in the main building of Estonian University of Life Sciences
(Kreutzwaldi 64, Tartu)

10.00 -  10.30 Opening of the Conference
                        Esko Mikkonen
                        Paavo Kaimre
                        Peeter Muiste

10.30 -  13.00 Speakers:

Keynote: Antti Ala-Fossi, Antti Asikainen and Dominik Röser - Forest technology sector’s vision and roadmap until 2020

Other:  Björn Löfgren - Automation of forest machines

Lauri Sikanen, Dominik Röser - Holistic forest energy supply chain design in Iceland and Scotland

Matti Sirén, Jani Heikkilä and Tiina Sauvula - Combined production of industrial and energy wood in pine stands

Jan Bjerketvedt - Light-duty grading equipment for forest road maintenance
                       
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 18.00 Parallel session I, Basic technologies for forest operations

Yrjö Nuutinen, Kari Väätäinen and Antti Asikainen - The influence of the number of log assortments on logging productivity in CTL-loggings with Combi harwarders

Antti Asikainen - Random processes in the modelling of mechanized wood harvesting systems     

Dominik Röser, Lauri Sikanen, Kari Väätäinen, Yrjö Nuutinen, Sami Muhonen and Ville Järvinen - Productivity and Cost of mechanized timber harvesting in Northern Scotland

Harri Liiri, Kari Väätäinen, Antti Asikainen and Dominik Röser - Fitting harwarders in CTL-loggings in Finland – A discrete-event simulation study

Kalle Kärhä - Effects of undergrowth on the harvesting of first-thinning wood

Jouni Bergroth, Kalle Kärhä and Teijo Palander - Excavator-based harvesters in cutting operations in Finland

Jukka Malinen, Harri Kilpeläinen, Tapio Wall and Erkki Verkasalo - Variation in the sales and processing value of a timber stand when bucking to alternative dimensions and end-products

14.00 – 18.00 Parallel session II, Environmental aspects of operations

Albert Serbanoaica Ilyes - Assessment of forest environmental factors and impacts in the transfer of Nordic harvesting technology

Heikki Ovaskainen, Jori Uusitalo and Tuomo Sassi - Positioning of harvester on the basis of edge trees in thinning

Gunnar Bygdén, Iwan Wästerlund and Lars Eliasson - Rutting and soil disturbance minimized by planning and using bogie tracks

Oscar Hultåker and Folke Bohlin - Practice and theory of organising work in storm damaged forests

Jori Uusitalo and Juha-Matti Markkola - Entrepreneurship in forestry sector – Is it worth to activate?

Maria Jonsson – Storage of debarked saw logs in Sweden

19.00 Conference dinner

Tuesday 19.09.2006

9.00 – 13.00 Parallel sessions III, Wood for Energy and Wood Quality

Andreas Bergstedt and Bruce Talbot - Purpose Built vs Tractor mounted chippers- A techno-economic appraisal

Jani Heikkilä, Juha Laitila, Vesa Tanttu, Jari Lindblad, Antti Asikainen & Matti Sirén - Harvesting alternatives and cost factors of delimbed energy wood

Kalle Kärhä - Whole-tree harvesting from young stands in Finland

Bruce Talbot and Kjell Suadican - Road Transport of Forest Chips: A re-look at containers vs. bulk trailers

9.00 – 13.00 Parallel sessions IV,  Transportation and Supply Chain Logistics

Carlsson, M., Landström, A. and D. Fjeld - Facilitating inter-organisational processes in roundwood transport

Jari Ala-Ilomäki - The effect of weather conditions on the trafficability of unfrozen peatlands

Kari Väätäinen, Antti Asikainen, Lauri Sikanen and Antti Ala-Fossi - The cost effect of translocation of forest machines on logging costs in Finland

Tuomo Nurminen and Jaakko Heinonen - Characteristics and time consumption of timber trucking

Jüri Jänes - Log-by-Log Real-Time Data Transmission from Harvester to Server over GPRS

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 17.00 Closing session

Keynote: Peeter Muiste, Vahur Kurvits, Risto Mitt Tauri Kakko and Meelis Teder – Forest harvesting in Estonia during the transition period
   

Other: Juho Rantala - Networking as a part of supply chain strategy in companies providing forestry services

Folke Bohlin and Oscar Hultåker - How do economics influence ergonomics in forestry contractor enterprises. Methodological considerations

Timo Karjalainen, Yuri Gerasimov, Vadim Goltsev, Ján Ilavský and Timo Tahvanainen - Assessment of Energy Wood Resources in the Leningrad Region

Magnus Thor - OSCAR- a network for improved Nordic R&D co-operation in the field of operation systems in forestry

Esko Mikkonen – Precision Forestry: New Challenge to nordic logging

                        Closing discussions

Wednesday 20.09.2006

9.00 – 15.00 Study tour (forest operations in Estonia)