FEATURE TIMBER SOFTWARE
Transforming Information Management
Kenny Doole, commercial director, Turnkey Group, sees adopting smart manufacturing and automation as key elements of digital transformation and increasingly central to the way that timber merchants now work.
C
ustomers across the timber
equipment or weighbridges means teams’
industry are making a
productivity increases and errors are reduced
significant shift in how they
by eliminating manual, often repetitive, data
use technology to achieve
entries.
and drive business efficiencies. Embracing
Historically, making investments in new
paperless processes underpins this move,
equipment meant trawling through up to
understanding how to utilise technology
a years’ worth of physical data sheets and
to directly interface with manufacturing
manually extracting relevant data. With
equipment, and automating repetitive tasks
modern systems operational teams can get
where possible.
instant access to data in a format to suit them.
Despite the rapid evolution of technology,
Furthermore, data analytics can be easily
some businesses are still antiquated in the
provided in the form of graphs and charts
way they approach data and systems. In an
giving businesses a snapshot of performance
ever-changing digital world, the need for
and allowing them to make rapid, informed
wholly integrated software systems that bring
decisions.
together people, processes and technology has never been greater.
With a product such as the Turnkey Timber software, integrating XML feeds
Kenny Doole, commercial director of Turnkey Group
directly from the Forestry Commission (UK) Why integration?
& Coillte (Ireland) systems can advise the
Together, the use of smart manufacturing
Embracing digital transformation Digitisation can support all the areas
user of incoming deliveries. Electronic Data
and equipment integration can drive
Interchange (EDI) allows the system to then
of the timber industry from harvesting to
automation and data exchange. For example,
capture contract details, including map
sawmilling, timber sales, timber merchants to
having a direct interface to sawmilling
locations electronically from key partners.
co-products including biomass.
Timber Trader UK Magazine
Autumn 2021
16
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