Objective
The forest-based value chains are one of the dominant contributors to the GDP in the rural regions of Europe. Besides the traditional value chains, novel ones are in the horizon, with significant impacts on the requirements for the raw material supply chains. A major roadblock for improving forest-based value chains is the lack of integrated control and planning mechanism. FOCUS will demonstrate how innovative sensor technologies and control methods can solve this problem, with case studies in Finland, Belgium, Switzerland,Germany,Austria, Portugal covering the main forest-based production processes in Europe – biomass for bioenergy, timber and pulp wood, and cork transformation.
The goal of FOCUS is to improve the individual value chain processes, and to remove the barriers for integrated planning and control for the whole value chain. The project brings together leading SMEs and organisations in the fields of environment and machine sensors, production machinery and control automation software development. The expertise is needed to address the key challenges: novel sensor development for environment, raw material and production machinery monitoring; new process specific control processes; plug-and-play composition of value chain wide control processes.
The productivity and sustainability of the value chains will be enhanced by enabling the best use of the production resources, and by reducing harmful impacts like soil compaction by forest machines, and carbon footprint of the operations. Product marketability will be increased by traceability of raw material origin, and by controlling the quality of the raw material during the production process. The open source FOCUS platform will foster new business models by enabling several SMEs to jointly offer solutions. The project will be a paradigm for support of efficient and sustainable exploitation of existing and new forest-based value chains alike, and will enhance the economic development of European rural areas.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering control systems
- social sciences economics and business business and management business models
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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FP7-NMP-2013-SME-7
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4200 465 PORTO
Portugal
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11100 RIIHIMAKI
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3012 Bern
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5020 Salzburg
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8020 Graz
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4536-909 LOUROSA
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3000 LEUVEN
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02150 Espoo
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02044 VTT ESPOO
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74635 KUPFERZELL NEU KUPFER
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40476 Düsseldorf
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27389 STEMMEN
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4505 264 SANTA MARIA DE FEIRA ARGONCILHE
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