ICT in Forest machines SDC

ICT in Forest machines
SDC
9/9 2014
Peter Assarsson
General Manager - Control Systems – Komatsu Forest
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This is Komatsu Forest
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Business
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The information
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How can it be used
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The product (Demo)
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This is Komatsu Forest
We are
Komatsu Forest
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Comprehensive range of forestry
equipment, service and spare parts
for modern forestry
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Aim to maximize the profitability of
forestry companies and
contractors
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Ambition to continuously improve
and further develop
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Forestry Quality – our ability to
meet customer requirements
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This is Komatsu Forest
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Business
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The information
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How can it be used
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This is Komatsu Forest
Production Unit
Chattanooga,
Tennessee, USA
Corporate HQ
Corporate functions
Customer Service Business
R&D
Production Unit
Umeå, Sweden
Komatsu Forest
Norway
Komatsu Forest
Russia
Komatsu Forest
Finland
Komatsu
America
Komatsu Forest
UK
Komatsu Forest
Germany
Komatsu Forest
Brasil
Komatsu Forest
Australia and New Zealand
This is Komatsu Forest
Company, important dates
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1961: Umeå Mekaniska established
1976: Acquired by Volvo BM
1979: Collaboration, Volvo BM - Valmet
1986: Umeå Mekaniska acquired by the Finnish stateowned company, Valmet
1988: Umeå Mekaniska renamed Valmet Logging AB
1994: Structuring of Finnish state-owned companies.
Valmet Logging
becomes SISU Logging
1997: Acquired by Partek and becomes Partek Forest
AB
2004: Acquired by Komatsu Ltd and becomes Komatsu
Forest
2011: Product name change, Valmet becomes Komatsu
2012: Komatsu Forest acquire Log Max AB
2013: Komatsu Forest Sweden co-organized with
Komatsu Forest AB
This is Komatsu Forest
Komatsu Ltd
 World’s second-largest
manufacturer of construction,
mining and building machines
 Founded in the Japanese city of
Komatsu in 1921
 Net sales 2012, USD 20,7 billion
 47,000 employees (2012)
 54 factories, worldwide
This is Komatsu Forest
Forwarders
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Productive in a class of its own
Reliable and dependable
High performance operator
environment and ergonomics
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Easy to service: Among others, small
number of lubrication points. ORFS
couplings
845
835
855.1
865
895
This is Komatsu Forest
Wheeled harvesters
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901TX.1
Leading-edge harvester technology
Market leading work environment
Leveling, rotating cab with crane mounted on the cab
Stable, ergonomic and productive
Reliable, maintenance-friendly and fuel efficient
911.5
931.1
941.1
This is Komatsu Forest
Tracked harvesters/feller
bunchers
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Impressive stability
Ergonomics and economics
Strong, robust machines for maximum efficiency
Gets the job done, regardless of terrain
Harvesters
XT430
Feller bunchers
XT445L
XT450L
XT430
XT445L
XT450L
This is Komatsu Forest
Harvesting heads
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High productivity
Easy to service
Strong, fast, and robust
High precision and measurement accuracy
340
C144
S92
360.2
C93
370E
378
365.1
378P
S132
C202E
370.2
398
This is Komatsu Forest
Excavators for
forestry work
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PC200 Harvester
Harvesters, processors, stump puller or log loaders
Designed for forestry work in tough conditions
High reliability and easy to service
Productivity and profitability
PC200 Processor
PC210 Stump puller
PC200 Log loader
Business
Machine
owner
Advanced
Plus
More advanced
Product segmentation
Provided Services !
Advanced
Basic
•Remote access to machine
•SW upgrade
Web site with information
and key data
Internet in machine
Service monitor
•Operation follow-up
•Shift-time
•Interrupts
•Full production
•Mechanical availability
•Key figures
•Machine on map
•Area and event reports
Other machines
Automatic handling of
data/information from
machine
Remote support
from experts
The information
What
information?
Operation
follow-up
Environment
Driver behavior
Settings
What is produced
Production
Consumptions
Production layer
Positions
Tracks
Stand still tracking
What is it used for
Fuel
Spare parts
Consumables
Geographical
information
Status
Sensor data
Etc…
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The information
Operation
follow-up
Operation follow-up – shift/operator/work area
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Time spent on what work
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Processing
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Transport
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Road travel
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Other work
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End
13:30
Work
Operator 1
Automatic detection of interruption
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Operator input
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Required interrupt causes
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Additional information
Break
Rep
air
Work
Maintene
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Input
needed
End
20:00
Start
13:00
Input
needed
Maintenen
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Work
Break
Work
Operator 2
Work time
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Start
06:00
Login time and logout time
Status
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Fuel consumption
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Distance traveled
Standardized information (Skogforsk, StanForD standard)
Processing
Terrain
driving
Processing
Terrain driving
Processin
g
The information
• 120 stems per hour.
• 24-7 work cycles
Processes 0,7Miljon stems per year
Detailed
production
Work area/Operator/Shift
 Tree species*
 Quality*
 Log length
 Diameters
 Product
 Volume
 Energy wood - branches and
needles
 Harvesting coordinate
 Multi stem handled
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Standardized information
(Skogforsk, StanForD standard)
*Operator entered
Pine
Spruce
Hardwood 1
Hardwood 2
Timber 1
Timber 2
Small timber
Special 1
Special 2
Waste timber
Pulp 1
Pulp 2
Rotten
Timber
Small timber
Special 1
Special 2
Waste timber
Pulp 1
Pulp 2
Rotten
Pulp 1
Pulp 2
Pulp 1
Pulp 2
The information
Machine
status data
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Alarm
Sensor data
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Temperature
 Engine Oil, Engine water, Hydraulic oil
Pressure
 Hydraulic…
 Flow
Voltage
 Battery
RPM
 Engine at working rev
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Actuators
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Movement time
 Machine movement per engine hour
Duty cycles
 Processing a tree
Speed
 Cutting
 Feeding
 Knife
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The information
Geographical
information
Layers
 Map
 Object boundaries
 Production layer
 Machine track layer
 Crane zone layer
 Break layers
Terrain driving
Processing
Transport
Other work
Breaks
Tree position
Crane zone
MaxiN – Software from Komatsu
Transfer of GIS layers
between forest machines
How can it be used
How can it
be used!
Time
Consumption
Spare parts
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How can it be used
Trace
time!
Why?
Helps owner to see if machine has optimal
usage.
Helps to indicate if driver is a good driver
- What is the time spent on!
- Does the driver need training?
Why?
3%
27%
ReverseFeedManual
70%
ReverseFeedAutomatic
ReverseFeedSpinning
Why?
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How can it be used
Trace
fuel!
Driver efficiency
Average fuel consumption per stem (dl)
Average fuel consumption per volume (dl / m3sob)
1,45
10,66
Number of stems per processing time (n / minute)
Volume per processing time (m3sob / minute)
3,135
0,426
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The product
Demo of
MaxiFleet
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The product
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SDC Business
Machine owner
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overlap
Information extraction
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Area production
Other business relations
• Forest company
• Area production
Other business relations
• Forest company
• Forest owner
Machine owner
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Information extraction
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Drivers
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Machine
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Area production
Information to other machines
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Share data sending to and
from machine
Dual sending
• Can be improved so
minimal data is
transferred?
• One of the
databases replicates
the input to the other
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Problems:
- We uses time based reports
- We support more file types
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Time based data vs.
area based data
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Rapport 2
Rapport 3
Lost
How to track that all data has
been sent?
– Verify that one machine has sent
all data
 In this case the time based
data is preferred because it is
easy to see if there is gaps in
the reports
– Verify that all production has been
received from one area?
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Rapport 1
Machine follow-up is time based
– Easier to extend to the other file
types
Area 1
Area 2
Area 3
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Quality of data
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New message
If data is missing
Data request
– How do we ensure that we get the data?
– Can we make a request to the machine for data?
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Data
If several machines is involved in an area
– How do we that all machines uses the same Area
identification?
– Area synchronization? Central Area database?
Access areas
Area database
Thank
you for
listening!
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