AFORA's Practical Tools

AFORA's Practical Tools

Australian Forest Operations Research Alliance (AFORA) develops practical tools to improve:

• the understanding, management and control of forest operational costs for existing, evolving and new harvest systems;
• the planning and management of value recovery within harvest operations; and
• the application of optimisation to supply chain efficiency planning and management.

In particular;

• the ALPACA tool allows modelling of single forestry machines or entire harvest systems; and
• the Machine Costs tool is a single machine analysis to evaluate the machine’s hourly cost.