Services
JM Laine Consulting Oy can provide you with a variety of services for wood handling development and construction projects around the globe.
Main Services
Processing & Equipment Consultation
Consultation about the wood handling process and how the equipment works. Evaluation of wood handling technical proposals given by wood handling suppliers.
Feasibility Study & Process Improvements
Inspection of existing wood handling plants to find process and equipment bottlenecks. The found deficiencies will be reported and the improvement plans will be presented.
Additional Services
- Construction Site Management
- Commissioning Management
- Technical Proposals
- Comparisons & Technical Second Opinions
- Project Management
- Troubleshooting
- Product Sales Expertise
- Training
- Wood, chips, and bark handling process pre-engineering
My Process
1. Feasibility Study
In the feasibility study phase the existing wood yard shall be inspected to find the process and technical deficiencies. Typical feasibility study contains the necessary and agreed combination of the below tasks:
- Inspection of existing wood yard
- Evaluation of found process and technical deficiencies, such as:
- Low production capacity
- Wood losses
- Poor chip quality
- High bark content in chips
- Low running availability
- High maintenance cost
- High electrical consumption
- High production cost
- Environmental damages
- Employees injuries
- Wood losses due to inaccurate wood material measurement
- Capital losses in wood storing
- Fire risks
- Benchmarking
- Propose alternative improvement plan for next 3 or 5 years
- Selection of improvement plan concept
2. Implementation
During the implementation phase, the selected improvement or new investment plan from the feasibility study phase shall be completed:
- Design criteria
- General layout
- Profitability analyses
- Technical documents for permit procedures
- Production calculation
- Raw material and utility consumption estimates
- Dimensioning of unit processes
- Block diagrams and/or process flow diagrams
- Technical descriptions of wood yard
- Equipment lists
- Procurement instructions
- Enquiry specifications
- Review of the supplier’s quotation and documents
- Inspection of the supplier’s engineering
- Project schedules
- Manufacturing audits and inspections