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Digital transformation for doing more with less in the wood industry.

The wood industry is facing major economic and labor challenges and must act now by using digital technology to survive and thrive.

Wood processing plants must innovate to remain competitive in an uncertain and demanding market

Challenge 1: economic

Be innovative to stay competitive.

All wood processors are in the same boat with the raw material supply ever more constrained by environmental regulations and price fluctuations, not to mention the matter of meticulously handling all waste.
Total maximization of this renewable material is imperative.

Revisiting manufacturing processes and integrating new technologies can work wonders.

Automating key steps with digital technology reduces errors, saves time, and, most importantly, ups the performance of every parameter to enhance business productivity like never before.

Challenge 2: labor

Innovating to offset the skilled labour shortage

The serious shortage of experienced workers – from supervisors to operators – capable of reacting quickly and effectively to machine problems is something everyone in manufacturing has to deal with every day and the wood industry is no exception.

Technology can be the silver bullet for factories looking to facilitate and improve the user experience. Today’s user-centric technology is designed around user behavior, making it easy to save time, reduce repetitive or low value-added tasks, while safeguarding the company’s standing in the market.
Technology frees up skilled employee time for more high value-added tasks and supports those less skilled by lowering their learning curve.

Technology is also a major factor in attracting younger workers when recruiting new talent.

Technology can help compensate for the lack of skilled labor and transfer knowledge

The formula for success

The four keys to successful digital transformation

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Teamwork
The EFFECTO project team can’t do anything without you. Your management team has to be on board by dedicating the internal working hours necessary for the installation process. Your commitment and determination must also be conveyed to your employees so they can become player’s in the plant’s evolution.
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User uptake on new tools
It’s critical that everyone starts using the new tools as soon as possible. Expectations will be high and so will be resistance to change. Users will demand speed and simplicity. Communicating, explaining, demonstrating, and supporting are crucial. Your EFFECTO project team will be at your side every step of the way to guide you.
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Continuous improvement
By continuously innovating and improving our products by actively monitoring and anticipating your changing needs, the EFFECTO project team ensures that your system and your employees stay ahead of the curve.
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The leverage to keep growing
EFFECTO high-performance tools are adapted to your actual workforce needs, including managers, foremen, financial managers, salespersons, operators, forklift operators, and scalers, providing a user-friendly working environment, improving the level of employee commitment (job enhancement, training) and recruiting new talent proud to be working in an Industry 4.0 organization. 
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The sawmill industry has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past decade with significant investments in advanced vision, control, and optimization technology.

Existing systems generate enormous amounts of data, but it’s not yet widely used even though it presents incredible opportunities to offset the non-stop drop in expertise for maintaining or achieving operational excellence in order to remain competitive not only with other producers but also with lumber substitutes.

Serge Constantineau, senior expert in the field of wood transformation, advises wood industries to quickly engage their digital transformation.
Serge Constantineau, F.Eng., MSc.
Senior EFFECTO wood-processing consulting expert
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We’re evolving in the VUCA World (VICA)…a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous ecosystem and its daily toxic impact on business. The wood-processing industry is certainly no exception with the wild price fluctuations, severe labor shortages, and massive changes it’s undergone in the past decade. And we have to learn to deal with it since disruptions like these are here to stay.

According to recent studies, factories must become more agile and ramp up their managing skills, shorthand for becoming more efficient in everything they do. No wonder digital transformation is one of the first projects to get underway.

Based on our two decades of wood industry technical expertise, the future belongs to those who continually strive to achieve and maintain operational excellence, benchmarking themselves against the best-in-class technology available.

David Fecteau Director of Innovation EFFECTO recommends that companies aim for operational excellence now
David Fecteau
EFFECTO Director of innovation and CEO
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