Schilliger Holz Starts Up Lignatherm: A Milestone for Swiss Wood
When we first spoke with Schilliger Holz AG, they were already thinking about fire risk differently than most wood processors.
April 9, 2026
AVIAN Insights
Stories from the field
Practical guidance from field deployments, reliability teams, and safety-first operations.
Planer Fires - They Happen More Than You Think
If you've been around a planer mill long enough chances are high that you've seen your fair share of fires.
November 18, 2025
Shifting from Preventative to Predictive with AVIAN
In today's market, doing more with less is integral to survival.
October 20, 2025
How a Sawmill Stops Sparks in Their Tracks
Hidden underneath the logdeck for this manufacturer are critical hydraulic drives which operate the head rig.
October 9, 2025
'How Spark Detection Failed - "Without Your System, We Would Have Had a Disaster"'
We caught a scary one this week folks.
October 8, 2025
We're On a Roll - Preventing Conveyor Failures
It's the problems you don't see coming that cause the most amount of pain.
October 6, 2025
Beyond Human Vision: Detecting Hidden Dangers with Thermal Cameras
Often, great dangers lie right before our eyes without us being able to see or perceive them. This was also the case for one of our customers in Spain.
September 15, 2025
Why Standing in a Planer Room is a Bad Idea
Monitoring high speed planers is one of our most popular applications at AVIAN.
September 13, 2025
Caught in a Flash - Breaker Failure Caught on Camera
On August 21, 2025, our camera system captured a fuse blowing in real time—a splitsecond flash that briefly lit up the entire room. In less than a heartbeat, the fuse failure generated temperatures exceeding 150 °C (3...
August 22, 2025
Rosenbaum Avoids Costly Shutdown With AVIAN
Friday, May 9 — Once again, the AVIAN earlywarning system at the Josef Rosenbaum sawmill demonstrated the value of predictive monitoring with thermal intelligence. One of our smart camera systems there is focused on t...
August 12, 2025
Preventing Fires in Your Planer Mill with AVIAN Thermal Cameras
In the fastpaced world of modern planer mills, safety, efficiency, and operational insight are paramount. Integrating AVIAN's stateoftheart thermal cameras into your mill not only addresses these priorities but also d...
January 12, 2025
Combining Predictive Maintenance and Fire Safety
With more and more installations across Europe, the AVIAN team has recently seen some interesting cases where our patent pending monitoring system has dramatically reduced the risk of fire and prevented machines from ...
May 31, 2024