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• Wood as a raw material
  • Forest resources in general
  • Wood species and their characteristics
  • Raw material procurement
  • Quality of sawn log
  • Sawmills’ by-products as a raw material
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• Log procurement
  • Log procurement in general
  • Cross cutting
  • Raw material for pulp mills
  • Raw material logistic from the forest to factories
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• Sawn timber manufacturing
  • Mill’s production planning
    • What does production planning mean?
    • The environment of production planning
    • Tools for production planning
    • History of production planning in sawing
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  • Log sorting and measuring
    • The purpose of log sorting
    • How to sort the logs?
    • Log measuring
    • The development of the X-ray measurement system in the sawmill industry
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  • Debarking
    • The purpose of debarking
    • Properties of bark wood and bark
    • Debarkers
    • Butt-end reducing
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  • The sawing process
    • Sawing methods
    • Principles of cant and through-and-through sawing
    • Devices before actual sawing
    • Blade settings
    • Sawing machines and sawlines
    • Conveyors
    • Conveyors for by-products
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  • Blade technology
    • Circular blades
    • Chipper canter and chipper blades
    • Bandsaw blades
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  • Dimension sorting
    • Green sorting
    • The dimension sorting plant
    • Sorting plant control and choosing bins
    • Buffering storage for sorted timber
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  • Stick-stacking and drying
    • The purpose of stick-stacking
    • Stick-stacking lines
    • Measuring timber moisture content
    • Drying methods
    • Kiln types
    • Drying automation and management of the drying process
    • Quality of drying, drying defects and preventing them
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  • Heating plants
    • Heat on the sawmills
    • Fuels and combustion technology
    • Energy efficiency and environmental impacts
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  • Timber grading after kilning
    • Grading by quality
    • Grading plant
    • Need for regrading
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  • Packaging, storage and marking of sawn timber
    • Packaging
    • Storage
    • Marking of sawn timber and timber packages
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  • Sawmill process automation
    • What does process automation mean?
    • What does safety automation mean?
    • Interfaces
  • Sawline measurements
    • Log scanning in the beginning of the sawing line
    • Log rotation
    • Scanning of cants, squares and sawn timber
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  • Quality grading systems at the sawmill
    • Machine vision in sorting
    • The benefits of automatic grading systems
    • Timber strength grading equipment
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• Quality grading and strength grading
  • Difference between quality and strength grading
  • Visual grading of sawn timber
  • Sawn timber grades
  • Definitions and measuring methods to assess the sawn timber grade
  • Photographic examples of sawn timber features and qualities
  • Strength grading for structural timber
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• Quality control and certification
  • Differences between internal and external quality control
  • What does certification mean?
  • Internal quality control at the sawmill
  • Test screening of chips, defining the volume and grade
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• Maintenance
  • Organizing maintenance
  • Electrical and mechanical maintenance
  • Condition monitoring
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• Occupational safety at the sawmill
  • Safety in the sawmill industry
  • Fire safety at sawmills
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• Marketing and sales
  • Marketing and sales concepts
  • Sales channels
  • End uses for sawn goods
  • Differences between the customers in Finland
  • Differences between other markets
  • How to plan sales and production?
  • Sawn timber logistics
  • Main parameters for business
  • Sales and marketing argumentation
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• Using information systems
  • How to exploit information systems in sawmill industry?
  • Data usage in wood procurement, production and sales
  • Process control systems as a part of information systems
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• Further processed timber
  • Further processed goods – production and sales
  • Planed goods
  • FInger jointing
  • Glulam beams, I Beams and other applications
  • CLT and glulam boards
  • Thermally modified timber
  • Impregnated timber
  • Test your skills
• The role of sawmilling in the shaping of modern Finland
  • Sawmill industry in Finland in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • Sawmill industry at 18th century
  • Impacts to the development of Finnish society
• Sawmill industry today
  • Structure of sawmilling
  • Sawn timber – ecological material
  • Forest ownership
  • The utilization of wood
  • The sawmilling industry as an energy producer
  • Sawmills in the national economy
  • Exports of sawn timber and the domestic markets
  • Turnover and costs
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• Future challenges
  • Future of forest industries
  • The sawmilling industry’s latest development
  • Need for knowledge in sawmill industry
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• Future vision
  • Future and structural changes of forest industries
  • Product development
  • Market outlook for sawn timber
  • Positive vision
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