Forest Products

Smart predictive maintenance solutions for the forest products industry

Lumber + -

One thing all lumber mill assets have in common is their criticality: any downtime on a single machine can have severe impacts on overall production. Specialized machinery requires advanced maintenance skillsets and presents significant safety issues if something goes wrong.

Gang saw
Kiln fans
Vertical saw
Wood planer
Knife systems (gang saw, chipping heads, chipper disc)

Forest products industry photo showing lumber stacked up on pallets.

Corrugated + -

OSB + -

Gypsum + -

Pulp & Paper + -

KCF Technologies’ SMARTdiagnostics system aids the pulp and paper industry by enhancing equipment monitoring and maintenance. It helps detect early signs of equipment issues, allowing for proactive maintenance and minimizing disruptions. This system focuses on critical processes like bleaching and thick stock pumping to ensure smooth and efficient operations.

Bleaching
Thick stock pumps
Paper Machines

Paper mill in operation with a maintenance engineer checking the status.

"Some suppliers, when you ask them a question, they're going to send you an invoice and look for a deal before they take a phone call... That is not the type of partner we prefer to work with. A mutual benefit says we'll pick a partner at scale because they make sense, and we'll have a good service relationship. And we have that with KCF."

David Bonfante, Senior Director of Asset Health
Georgia-Pacific

Customer Success Story

"By deploying sensors and optimizing the strategy, they reduced this cost to about $1.8 million, saving roughly $900,000 over three years."

Thom Brotski, CEO
Harrison Group LLC

Customer Success Story

"What this technology has enabled us to do is for these technicians to find defects in our process in our equipment identify those and spend more of their hours actually troubleshooting and understanding those problems rather than simply walking the plant to find them in the first place."

Clifton McDonald, Sr. Director of Reliability
RYAM

Customer Success Story

"The immediate long-term benefit that comes to mind is just overall better reliability and maintenance of our equipment . "

Jesse Stephens, Operations Manager
St. Croix Tissue

Customer Success Story

Case Study Spotlight

Moving equipment into a precise state

Discover RYAM’s transformative journey with KCF Technologies, enhancing equipment reliability and safety across all manufacturing facilities. Since 2021, RYAM has installed over 2,600 KCF sensors in Jessup, Georgia, achieving 95% coverage of critical machinery. This adoption of KCF’s 24/7 monitoring technology minimizes routine checks, averts failures, and boosts efficiency. The initiative demonstrates RYAM’s dedication to innovation, equipment longevity, and environmental sustainability in the industrial sector.

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A KCF Technologies IoT hub connects machine health monitoring devices for robust data.

How the IoT HUB succeeds where traditional vibration monitoring fails

The IoT Hub from KCF enables the user to collect simultaneous data samples from each monitoring point and transmit the data wirelessly to a KCF Base Station. Use case scenarios include:

Intermittent Operation: Monitor assets using triggered signal input to measure periods of interest, allowing comparison of relevant data.
Synchronous Data Collection: Accurately time-synchronize sampling from multiple monitoring points.
Signal Propagation: Wireless sensors are decoupled from the IoT Hub and can be placed anywhere, including submerged locations.
High Temperature: Placing the IoT Hub away from extreme temperatures ensures you don’t compromise battery power.

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Smart predictive maintenance solutions for the forest products industry

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Moving equipment into a precise state

How the IoT HUB succeeds where traditional vibration monitoring fails

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