Planning & Scheduling

The premier advanced scheduling planning system designed and created to solve your scheduling issues, enabling you to focus on your business objectives. Delivering short-term and mid-term planning capabilities for your business, it can configure complex multi-stage production processes by sequencing the tasks on each work center and estimate the start and end dates with several constraints.

Perfect for industries where production splits as it moves through the process; this includes, paper & board, plastic film and flexible packaging, nonwovens, metals, converting and additive manufacturing (“3D printing”).

opt-Studio: optimized block plans and detailed schedules for all machines

Key Benefits

Respond to unforeseen events in seconds
Customer service improvements through reductions in stock-outs & late orders
Production efficiency improvements with setup costs and grade changes reduced by up to 15%
Inventory and work-in-progress reductions by up to 20%
Simultaneous scheduling and raw material calculation
Integrates with X-Trim, supporting many-to-many orders to entities relationship, for precise scheduling with long production runs
Transportation optimization using accurate schedules
Capable of unattended automatic scheduling (e.g. in the middle of the night)

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Features

opt-Studio® (Optimization Studio) seamlessly combines Greycon’s world-class trim optimization expertize with the capability to generate optimized block plans and detailed schedules for all machines. A single desktop, with a unified, sleek and powerful user interface, provides fine planning functionality (schedule creation, schedule optimization and trim optimization) with unrivalled what-if capability; now offered with an optional mobile client.

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Key Features

Scheduling & Planning

Optimized block schedule for a short-term and medium-term timeframe
Automatically update the schedule on every device within a few seconds, providing complete visibility into the effects of your decisions or external events

Optimization

Find the best trim optimization solutions
Compare various alternative solutions using what-if capabilities

Promise Dates & Order Management

Offer an Available-to-Promise / Capable-to-Promise (ATP / CTP) engine for Order Entry Systems to commit to dates for new order inquiries
Deploy the short-term plan to the shop floor and receive production updates to track the execution

Inventory Management

Replenishment plans that meet your inventory targets
Just-in-time material replenishment orders, synchronized with the schedule
Determine the best date to place orders for raw materials

Multi-Site & Capacity Management

Multi-site scheduling
Finite capacity scheduling
Define quotas to control capacity, revenue, and customer service

Production Visibility

Production Monitoring and Execution
Integrate with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP, Microsoft, & Oracle

Functional Highlights

Block Schedule Optimization

In many manufacturing situations, there is a combination of product complexity, non-constant demand and significant switchover costs when transitioning from one product to another. opt-Studio addresses these issues through an optimization-based approach that lets the user balance these conflicting objectives. The tool will create:

• the sequence of runs on each machine (and the customer order allocation to those)
• the needed replenishment orders for the make-to-stock products

Create campaigns for primary lines, replenishment orders for make-to-stock items, all while minimizing a mix of production, setup, customer service, inventory and transport costs.

Finite Capacity Scheduling

opt-Studio is designed to generate a finite-capacity schedule very quickly. Tasks in primary and secondary machines can be automatically scheduled in just a few seconds. Scheduling and sequencing orders based on user-defined scheduling rules that consider personnel, material and stock or work-in-progress inventory (WIP) availability as well as equipment constraints.

• Takes into account raw material availability
• Considers requirements of finitely available tools
• Imposes shift patterns on machines and operators
• Can automatically determine the best machine for a task to reduce setups and bottlenecks, or balance workload
• Allows injection of existing or future stock at any stage

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Available-to-Promise / Capable-to-Promise (ATP/CTP)

Analyzing the latest schedule and determining if there is a combination of stock and machine capacity that will meet the expected date of a given order, considering as many stages of production as necessary, including finishing.

Trim Optimization

For producers that need geometric optimization of their material. Optimize across multiple runs in multiple machines, while automatically detecting which orders can be moved from their current run in order to improve the global trim without compromizing dispatch dates.

• Minimizes waste or maximizes profit
• Supports different diameter problems
• Allows optional and all-or-nothing orders
• Optimizes across multiple primary machines and sites, while controlling the extent of splitting

Materials Planning

Planners can make informed decisions for which comes first: raw material planning or scheduling, by simultaneously addressing both in the scheduling engine. This enables just-in-time ordering of raw materials, as well as visibility of the delays caused by material shortages

Integration

Our solutions seamlessly integrate into many popular industry platforms, bringing together world-leading expertise to help our customers capture the benefits of both services.

This includes SAP, Microsoft, Oracle and various commercial ERP systems.

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About Greycon

Established in 1985, over 500 plants in 43 countries use our solutions. Our extremely skilled and talented employees cover 15 languages across our worldwide operation.

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