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Remsoft turns to AI for forest planning

Remsoft has added artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to Remsoft Operations, its cloud-based platform for forest operations planning, providing a new level of decision-support with access to valuable insights and predictive analytics. Source: Timberbiz

Remsoft Operations centralizes data, plans and intelligence to deliver real-time decision support for operational team members. Storing planned values for operational scheduling as well as actuals, it provides a unified and efficient hub for forest operations.

Leveraging the rich, comprehensive harvest operations data that’s connected and readily avail-able within Remsoft Operations, planners can take advantage of the new AI tools to predict productivities, inventory volumes, delay risk, and weather impact. With the click of a button, they can assign better productivities and volume estimates to generate more accurate schedules.

Remsoft has also introduced a new AI Boost service to bring immediate value from Remsoft’s AI capabilities. The service ensures that the AI components are ready for use in Remsoft Operations on day one, and it provides useful analytics and insights into the harvest operation.

Using the AI Boost service, forestry companies can answer questions such as “What attributes are driving productivity?”, “Where are there repeated inaccuracies in our volume assumptions?” and “what is the difference in productivity accuracy when AI is used versus when it is not?”.