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Komatsu’s Smart Forestry gives you access to a collection of digital services that help make the workplace safe, smart, productive and sustainable, whether you have one or a hundred forest machines. You can keep track of your machines, collaborate with colleagues, and make wise decisions based on facts. Source: Timberbiz Smart Forestry consists of three different applications, making it easy for you to find the one that suits you and your business. Fleet Monitoring Fleet Monitoring opens new doors for preparing and planning work tasks for harvesters and forwarders alike. As the service is cloud-based, you can plan your work wherever you like and use any device with internet access. You can register identities, products, areas, maps, GIS data and other important information. This ensures that the operator has the correct information even before they start working and having the correct information also minimises the risk of unnecessary driving and mistakes. Fleet Monitoring gathers all machine information about your fleet and continually provides insights into each individual machine. You can see the utilisation, operating status, and exact geographic location of each machine. This entails no extra work for the operator as all data are logged and saved automatically. It’s easy to compare fuel consumption and production and the stored operation and production data are easy to tally, reducing your monthly accounts workload. Fleet Monitoring gives you remote access to many practical functions: check the battery status, monitor the temperature in the cab or start the diesel heater. Access to remote support where Komatsu Forest’s experts connect to your machine offers additional peace of mind. You can even allow a technician to remote control the machine, troubleshoot any problems and update the settings and software. This minimises downtime and saves both time and money – not least by avoiding costly service callout expenses. Technicians can provide remote training as well. Komatsu Vision With Vision it’s easy to share information with each other. The harvester operator plans suitable access roads, log roads and landings based on the worksite conditions. The forwarder operator can see the production in each working zone and optimise their forwarding to avoid unnecessary detours. Once the timber has been forwarded to the landing, the operator can mark the zone complete, simplifying follow-ups. Functions for marking particular areas and boundaries on the map and writing messages enable the team to help each other do a better job. You can also share information with other teams or companies. All information is updated in real-time. Vision helps you to work more efficiently and with less impact on the forest. You get area maps with up-to-date information. You can plan the forwarding based on the harvester’s tracks, thereby saving time, diesel and the environment. You gain a good overview and reliable production data that make it easy to adjust your planning as needed. The map functions also make it easy to send an easily understood final report once an area has been completed. Komatsu Precision Precision uses the latest satellite positioning technology to determine the machine’s position with a margin of error of just a few centimetres. This opens up possibilities for a productive and smart way of working where you as an operator get important information and support to make wise decisions. You can create digital boundaries around the work area or around protected areas and receive warnings if the machine comes too close to the boundary. Thanks to the high precision, machine tracks and stem codes can be clearly visualised, and you can also show the exact position of the processed logs, making it easier to see which assortment is in the log pile. When planning thinning routes, line following with navigation support is a great help, as it helps you stay on the planned route. It is also important that the user experience is as smooth and intuitive as possible, so there are many opportunities to customise both appearance and functionality.

Tigercat Industries has released the 6040 carbonizer. This long-awaited product replaces the 6050 carbonator that Tigercat marketed for a brief time after acquiring the product through the purchase of ROI in 2019. The mobile onsite wood conversion system is once again available in the marketplace after a comprehensive, ground-up redesign. Source: Timberbiz The 6040 is one of the most environmentally friendly wood debris reduction and conversion systems available on the market. The machine inputs woody debris and produces a high quality organic carbon with up to 90% material reduction. It is an ideal solution for converting unwanted logging and agriculture residue into a useful, high grade organic carbon that can be left onsite as a soil additive or marketed for many different commercial uses. The process captures 20% to 30% of the available carbon in the feedstock and sequesters it for thousands of years, furthering the goals of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. The innovative conversion process operates at high throughput levels and produces very low emissions because the gasses are combusted in the controlled combustion zone. The 6040 redesign addresses performance related issues experienced in the original design and represents the knowledge of the applications that Tigercat engineers and field support personnel have gained over the past five years. Great care has been taken to create a machine that allows modular replacement over time. For instance, the grates in the carbonizing chamber are now made up of seven different sections that can be rotated 180 degrees to balance wear and extend life. Individual sections can be replaced as required. The undercarriage, auger trough, and conveyor system are all bolt-on sections to the main carbonizing chamber frame. Everything can be separated for service and replacement if required. The modular bolt-on design also allows for differing expansion rates of these major components. The replaceable thermal-ceramic panel seal plate design has been improved, reducing panel wear. The composition of the panels has been altered to decrease back-face temperature while storing and utilizing more of the heat energy produced during the carbonizing process. This provides a more stable and sustained temperature within the carbonizing chamber. The result is increased efficiency, higher infeed rates, reduced emissions, and a greater yield of higher quality organic carbon. The auger trough is designed for minimal air leakage, assisting with under-air efficiency, further defining the secondary combustion zone, while reducing hotspots that could form from an inefficient base pressure or vacuum. Unlike the 6050, the auger trough, where the quenching process takes place, is entirely sealed. Once the organic carbon drops through the grates, it is fully quenched by the water bath. An onboard hydraulic water supply pump and integrated automatic water level control system reduces water consumption by about 50% compared with the 6050. Automated water fill, level control, and water retention provides the operator a window of time to replenish the water supply if required. The adjustable conveyor simplifies handling and management of the organic carbon product. It pivots 105 degrees from side to side and can be raised or lowered. The conveyor easily folds for transport and does not have to be detached from the machine frame. Temperature control sensors are located throughout the machine. This, coupled with the Tigercat designed operating software and telematics system, improves data access and customer support. The 6040 developments also emphasized parts commonality among other Tigercat products including pumps, motors, valves and filters, simplifying parts inventory management at the dealer and end user level. The overall machine weight has been reduced from 43,550 kg to 37,650 kg. Extended track frames improve load distribution on the trailer and reduce soil compaction on the ground.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has shared the latest tools and techniques to support data collection from satellite imagery for monitoring forests with experts across Southeast Asia, including for the subregion’s mangroves. Source: Timberbiz Participants will contribute to the Remote Sensing Survey of FAO’s 2025 Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA), which provides essential information for understanding the extent of forest resources, their condition, management and uses across the globe. Experts from Bhutan, Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Viet Nam attended the training week from 24 to 28 June 2024 in Bangkok, which was organized with the assistance of the European Union and Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative. Trainers provided an overview of methodology, implementation and definitions as well as lessons on the physics of remote sensing, theory of photo interpretation and utilizing FAO’s dedicated platform, Collect Earth Online (CEO), for data collection. “The extensive field knowledge of the region’s experts is essential for better capturing complex land-use change patterns in Southeast Asia, such as shifting cultivation,” said Adolfo Kindgard, FAO Forestry Officer. Experts also compared satellite images from the FRA 2025 Remote Sensing Survey with the actual conditions on the ground in the Royal Thai Army Nature Study Center, Bang Pu, Samut Prakan Province, for further practical instruction in image interpretation, with a special focus on Bang Pu’s mangroves. As of 2020, nearly 44% (6.48 million hectares) of the total global area of mangroves (14.8 million hectares) is found in South and Southeast Asia, which also hosts the highest mangrove species diversity. However, this subregion also has the highest rate of net mangrove loss due to primary drivers such as the conversion to aquaculture and agriculture, losing 0.11% of mangrove cover per year from 2010 to 2020. Mangroves provide hundreds of millions of people living along coastal areas with services such as protection from natural disasters, timber and non/wood forest products, and pollution control. They also protect and conserve biodiversity by providing homes, breeding grounds and food for diverse types of animals, and are key to combating climate change through carbon storage.