Rubner Holzindustrie is rated amongst Europe’s leading specialists for solid construction timber.

HIs operations stretches from log procurement to production of high-quality semi-finished products mainly for the timber engineering sector. Rubner is specialized on the production of machine strength-graded glulam beams and solid construction timber.

Rubner wanted a planning solution for their sawmill and glulam operations. The objective was to base the long-term planning decisions on overall profitability and in the short-term planning increase the precision in product quantity and delivery time.  The solution should also seamlessly integrate with their current ERP. 

• Optinex tactical and operational planning.
• Optinex saw simulation.
• Optinex shop floor control for production order execution.

Optinex provides a digital twin of the sawmill taking in consideration market demands, production capabilities and raw material supply. Optinex integrates with ERP to receive materials, demands and stock information. 

The Project started with a prestudy were the scope and which modules would benefit to RHI’s goals. A high-level integration design between Optinex and RHI’s other systems was created.  

The project was then performed in close cooperation between RHI and ForestX. ForestX always applies an Agil project methodology to achieve the effect goals as the project evolves.

• Increased precision of the planning in product quantity and delivery time.
• Increased planning horizon.
• Use optimization to make decisions based on total profitability for the whole company.
• Decrease the time spent for creating and managing the plan.
• Transparency of plans among stakeholders

• 230’ annual sawn timber​
• Roundwood to glulam operations​ 
• Part of Rubner Group with 1300 employees in 4 countries