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CASE STUDY
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Factory 4.0: LIB Lumber<\/span><\/h1>

LIB Lumber built a state-of-the-art mill around a data-driven culture.<\/p><\/div>Download the case study<\/span><\/a><\/div>

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When the construction of the state-of-the-art LIB Lumber\nmill began in Princeville, Quebec, the management,\nunder the leadership of Mr. Guy BLONDEAU, knew that\nit needed advanced data-driven tools to support its\nbusiness model.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Challenge
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Finding powerful tools to\nsupport the data-driven culture and\nthe efficient operation of the new,\nstate-of the-art mill in\nPrinceville, Quebec.<\/div><\/div>

Solution<\/h4>
Our signature software suite,\nPMP TeamMate\u2122, linking every key\noperation in the mill, from planning to\nshipping for fully integrated control\nover wood transformation and\nmanagement operations.<\/div><\/div>

Benefits<\/h4>
The confidence of knowing that mill\nemployees are responsive to quality\ndeviations in real time and that\nhistorical production data can be used\nto drive further optimization, leading to\na more agile and profitable business.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

The challenge<\/h2>

The unique challenge posed by LIB Lumber is the unique design of its manufacturing line, capable of sawing and planing wood simultaneously, relying on a single optimizer. For this reason, the LIB Lumber plant must sort rough and planed lumber, both green and kiln dried.<\/p>\n

So doing, the LIB Lumber plant could allocate a certain number of sorter bins to rough lumber and the remainder to planed lumber. When bundles drop, the line is designed to route them to the yard—for drying or as an end product.<\/p>\n

From the start, Mr. BLONDEAU was convinced that the only way to operate efficiently, flexibly, and profitably was to leverage the power of data—something the new high-tech factory generates a lot of. The LIB Lumber plant is indeed a veritable technology showcase.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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The solution<\/h2>
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Without actionable insights and a data-driven culture, LIB Lumber could not operate at the level of efficiency, productivity, and quality it does now. Part of the reason it does is PMP TeamMate and the power it offers mill employees to drive key decisions (whether on the plant floor or in the executive offices) with hard data.<\/p>\n

When PMP SOLUTIONS came on as an IT technology supplier for the new mill, we immediately set to the task of asserting the unique complexity of the Princeville mill, and then proceeded to map the necessary equipment integrations and to contextualize relevant data (in relation to each other) that would offer the most useful insights.<\/p>\n

LIB Lumber has truly embraced Industry 4.0, requiring actionable insights at each step of its operations, from its sales and operations planning (S&OP) to its inventory tracking.<\/p>\n

In over 15 years of working with wood transformation plants, we’ve seen well over 100 mill designs. The LIB Lumber line posed a unique challenge, but the standardized data structure used by PMP TeamMate made it relatively straightforward to configure the solution to produce easy-to-understand reports including the overall efficiency of the mill, as well as its efficiency per product category and transformation process.<\/p>\n

We deployed:<\/p>\n