Case Study: Boise Cascade achieves 10% fuel savings and streamlined regulatory reporting with AVEVA (Wonderware)

Boise Cascade Finds Scalability, Automated Reporting with Wonderware

Boise Cascade, a leading wood-products manufacturer, faced the challenge of modernizing and scaling plant automation across lumber sorting, presses, boilers and dryers while integrating legacy systems and meeting strict environmental reporting rules that require retaining 90% of historized data. To address this, they partnered with AVEVA, deploying AVEVA’s Wonderware InTouch HMI and Wonderware Historian to provide a unified, scalable control and data-logging platform.

AVEVA’s solution centralized data acquisition and storage, enabled seamless upgrades and remote deployment, and automated regulatory reporting—eliminating mountains of paper records and hundreds of manual hours. The Wonderware Historian’s trending and tuning capabilities delivered measurable benefits: Boise Cascade met data-retention requirements and achieved a 10% reduction in boiler fuel consumption, improving compliance, operational visibility and the plant’s bottom line.

Boise Cascade

Scott Noble

Computer Control Specialist / Data Manager