Forest process engineering

Forestry process engineering is a relatively new term that combines the work techniques in timber harvesting , but also in other management and uses of the forest as well as timber transport and the associated transport logistics into an engineering science. The discipline emerged as a result of the increasing mechanization of forest work .

In the course of digitization , digital work, product and production control in the forest (Forest 4.0 / Industry 4.0 ) as well as digital (geo) data management are increasingly part of the field of forest process engineering and thus represent a significant part of precision forestry. represent.

There are professorships with this name at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Technical University of Munich .

literature

• Hans Dietrich Löffler: Forestry process engineering (wood harvesting) for students, Chair for forestry work science and process engineering at the University, Munich 1989.
• Hans Rudolf Heinimann (ed.): Contributions to forestry process engineering, vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 1994. ISBN 3-7281-2088-X