Head of Wood and Fibre Solutions
The customer, a major producer of kraftliner that uses fibre from wood and recycled paper, wanted to improve their production processes. They wanted to ensure the raw material handling was done efficiently and at optimal levels. They also wanted to make sure that the raw material is tracked properly and whenever required for production it was of the right quality. Further, with the constant changes in the prices of the raw material they wanted to optimise the turnover rate of the material.
Tieto provided the ROCS™ (Roaming Object Coordinating System) system makes raw material utilisation and production processes more efficient at the Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner board mill in Piteå, Sweden. ROCS has also been integrated with the TIPS Info system that has been in use at the mill for years.
Tieto’s GPS-based system, ROCS™, a GPS-based system, improves traceability and information management in the wood yard by using mobile computers in log stackers with support for scales. When load of recovered paper or bales of pulp arrive at the warehouse it is recorded with the ROCS system and report can be generated anytime. The weighing procedure and the supplier invoice handling process is automated enabling optimised fibre turnover rate.
“We constantly work on enhancing the efficiency of our processes, and ROCS™ plays a part in how we handle incoming material. It is easy to input, search, and process data as well as make changes to it if needed. We are planning to expand the use of the ROCS™ system to wood raw material processing.” – Staffan Persson, Raw material manager, Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner board mill in Piteå
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The Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner Piteå mill produces kraftliner that uses fibres from both wood and recycled paper. It is the biggest manufacturer in its field in Europe, with an annual output of approximately 700,000 tonnes.
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