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title: "AFORA's Practical Tools"
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3. AFORA's Practical Tools
 

#  AFORA's Practical Tools 

Costs, planning, management and more

 

 

 

 

 

 

### 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.

 [AFORA website](https://www.usc.edu.au/research/forest-research-institute/forest-industries-research-centre/australian-forest-operations-research-alliance-afora) 

 

 

 

 

 ![CDG4315](https://pft.tas.gov.au/volumes/images/Tools/_1500xAUTO_scale_center-center_80_none/138597/CDG4315.webp)