Another Client from the Prairies — Footner Forest Products

September 2000

While we were striving for J. M. Longyear throughout this summer, another request for LIMS and 3LOG's WEIGHWIZ software was received at the middle of August. Our new client, Footner Forest Products, is currently building its Orientated Strand Board Operation at High Level Plant in Northern Alberta.

Both the parent companies of this joint venture, Ainsworth Forest Products Ltd., and Grant Forest Products, use the LIMS system. The reliability and performance of the LIMS system is the main reason Footner Forest Products chose this Oracle based open client server application

The other reason was that with the 3LOG Systems’ integrated scale software (WEIGHWIZ), loads are recorded directly to the LIMS database and a high level of efficiency is achieved. With real time weight auditing and other controls, unmanned scale operation is easy to achieve.

Since August we have already made a site visit and collected some functional specifications. The detail design schema will be revised soon for finalizing the preparations for the project. At the middle of September, the entire development will begin and will last for two months. Later, we will provide on-site tutorials to help Footner woodlands personnel accustom to LIMS.

The operations like Footner, Grant and Ainsworth’s OSB plant is the leading edge of the forestry industry, and LIMS is the system they choose.