Abstract: The group of inventions relates to a method and a device for wood heat treatment and can be used for building and in the wood work and timber and furniture industries. The inventive method consists in controlling a heat-treatment process by forming control actions corresponding to parameters of current information inputted in the form of control signals into a computer system for determining the optimal values of the process parameters. The inventive device comprises a control cabinet which is provided with a computer system for controlling and programming a process and is connected to electrically driven shutters. Said invention makes it possible to improve the quality of treatable wood.