Productivity models for harvesting processes (HeProMo)

Productivity models for harvesting processes (HeProMo)

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HeProMo is an IT-based tool to predict the costs of timber harvesting for different harvesting scenarios under different aspects such as harvester logging. It allows certain settings to reflect the real situations in the forest. It offers a big information yield in the fields of preliminary costing and sensitivity analysis

The productivity model (HeProMo) predicts quickly and with a good accuracy the costs for concrete timber harvesting scenarios. It allows the identification of optimization possibilities. The application is quite easy to handle and gives a solid basis for good economic choices

Estimation of productivity and cost for wood harvesting operations (preliminary costing). Writing and controlling of offers for wood harvesting operations. Estimation about of variables and their importance (sensitivity analysis). Well suitable for application in teaching, education and research to identify key contributing factors and assessment of their influence on the results

Type of wood
Stemwood
Origin of wood
Forest
Mobilization Potential
- 10 m³/ha
Kind of wood concerned
Stemwood
Sustainability Potential
Medium
Impact on environment & biodiversity

Positive

Ease of implementation
Easy
Economic impact
Enhances competitiveness
Job effect
Positive
Income effect
Positive
Specific knowledge needed
Knowledge in silviculture and handling with IT-tools
Key prerequisites

Knowledge in silviculture

Domain
Forest management, ecosystem, resilience
Digital solution
No
Innovation
No
Country of origin
Switzerland
Scale of application
National
Start and end year
2003 - 2016
Contact data
Owner or author
References and Resources
Project under which this factsheet has been created
Rosewood