Functionalizing is the first step of the three-step-model
of decision-making in forest technology. The second step is localizing and
the third one is individualizing.
The first
step aims at finding and designing all harvestingprocesses that can work under
local conditions and technical constraints of the stand. Here, machines that
are available and operators, who are available, are combined to working methods
that can be assumed to do the demanded job. In order to expand the search space
as large as possible, several options should be selected that differ greatly
from one another (different machines, different degrees of mechanization etc.).
And one option should never be forgotten: the option to do nothing, the so-called
zero-option.
(See more
under TDiv PR1-A04 and TDiv PR1-B01 to B07)
