Timber

Manufacturers, traders and importers of timber products such as furniture, construction timber, pulp, paper goods or wooden packaging must prove that the wood they use has not led to deforestation. The regulation aims to keep products from illegal or unsustainable deforestation off the EU single market. It focuses above all on the production process and the place of production and also covers intermediate products and individual components.

Furniture manufacturers need material data down to the level of each component, and conventional ERP systems often do not hold it. A cabinet base, for example, is made of wood, is coated and has a particular surface. The ECLASS standard represents such information digitally, and morphe* supports companies in building the product data architecture. Suppliers from different countries can then use the same product data.

For the EUDR, the timber industry needs continuous data exchange across all suppliers and a shared data language for it. In practice, data on the materials used is often missing because standards are lacking and IT structures have grown over time. ECLASS ensures that machines and software systems speak the same language. Secure data spaces with a federated architecture make it possible to share product data in a controlled way while each company keeps control of its own data.

Sawmills need to know the entire value chain from the forestry operation to their products and combine data from different sources. What matters most is which region the wood comes from and which pesticides were used. In logicline's solution, sensors on the machines capture status and process data, an edge gateway sends it to the Cumulocity IoT cloud platform, and a KPI app integrates existing databases.