London, England. – November 9th 2016 – RDM recently appointed Greycon to implement a new manufacturing execution system for their board mills throughout Europe.

RDM is the second largest European producer of recycled carton board. The different types of cardboard produced by the Group target all packaging and publishing applications.

Greycon will be implementing the entire Greycon Suite of modules for the paper & board industry. This includes: opt-Studio® for centralised planning and scheduling, X-Trim® for trim optimisation and GreyconMill™ for production tracking, process integration and despatching. In parallel, RDM selected Microsoft AX as the centralised ERP system.

The implementation started in May 2016 with the group template and will be rolled-out to a total of six mills; three in Italy, two in France, one in Germany plus one converting centre in Italy.

The new system is expected to bring numerous benefits to RDM. One benefit will be enhanced visibility and transparency across the operations enabling RDM to manage all areas of the business through centralised ERP, planning tools and integrated production reporting.

Some key features of Greycon’s solution are: focus on optimisation to improve the production efficiency, multi-site planning, customer service functions (consolidating the orders status and information from planning & production, offering ATP/CTP functionality).

Abder Guezour, VP Global Sales at Greycon commented: “We are very pleased with the progress at RDM, we believe the Greycon Suite and Microsoft AX system will minimise the manual, repetitive and time consuming tasks and in consequence streamline RDM’s production processes saving both time and money. The replacement of the legacy and mill-based systems by an integrated and modern solution will allow the group to minimise the IT risks, fulfil its objective of adopting the best practices between the mills and support the growth of the business.”

“We are looking forward to the completion of this project, with the new system in place; this will give us more time to dedicate to our core business analysis and strategic thinking.” says Daniele Gatti, CIO from RDM.

About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.

About RDM
RDM Group is the leading Italian and second-ranked European producer of cartonboard based on recycled material. The different types of cartonboard that RDM produce targets all packaging and publishing applications. It has a production capacity splitted among several mills in Italy, France and Germany. The RDM products are offered through different brands to meet the customers’ requirements and to achieve a widespread presence in Italy, as well as in all European countries. Following the recent acquisition of Cascades s.a.s., French company which operates in the virgin-fiber cartonboard business, RDM is today a leading Group with more than 1 million tons per year of installed capacity.
www.rdmgroup.com

Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 207 978 0700

Greycon is pleased to announce the release of Greycon Suite 9.0. This release marks the third iteration of X-Trim front-technology in 30 years (first Fortran in 1985, then VB6 in 1995, now .NET’s C#) and now completes the migration of all Greycon products to .NET.

In addition to the front-end migration X-Trim now is also 15% faster on difficult-to-solve problems, thanks to advances in the underlying Gurobi mathematical programming libraries. Further improvements to the pattern reduction algorithms show an increase of the reductions from 23.6% (version 8.9 as compared to 8.3) to 24.0% (version 9.0).

The opt-Studio product also contains significant changes in 9.0, including the valuable aspect most requested by clients: comparing the schedule against a baseline scenario, typically set a week earlier. This will show, at a glance, any changes to customer service.

Greycon’s CEO Constantine Goulimis says: “The X-Trim front-end migration was a long and important project. We wanted to avoid losing any functionality or introduce new bugs, so, we adopted a semi-automated translation approach. This allowed us to protect the functionality, as well as track the evolving code base, which went through 7 releases over that period. The changes will cement X-Trim’s position as the leader in the manufacturing industry for next 15 years.”

About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com

Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 (0)207 978 0700

Greycon has been quoted in American Metals Market Publication in a recent article regarding how companies can achieve higher levels of efficiency by adopting varying process and information technology optimization strategies to lower costs and improve productivity and ultimately profitability.

“Also building on a global footprint of experience is Greycon Ltd., London, which is a fairly recent entrant into providing optimization strategies specific to the metals industry by focusing on select finishing facilities, particularly in tube and pipe mills, and on a wide range of metals service centers and distributors. “These plants, particularly those providing value-added services, have processes that are sequence-dependent with higher set up times and are faced with stock control or customer services challenges,” said Abder Guezour, vice president of global sales. He said Greycon is “working with these plants on performance optimization and on achieving the balance between production efficiency, inventory levels, customer service levels, quality, transportation and logistics costs.”

Greycon’s Guezour points to the increasing trend of marrying process optimization and information technology solutions and overlays. “While some clients approach IT solutions as overlays, others view IT applications in distinct silos specific to certain types of processes or machines. Therefore, they can capture the low-hanging fruit and see immediate benefits before moving to the next steps in the process and eventually to an enterprise-wide solution. However, IT installations need to be treated carefully as they can fail by taking longer than anticipated to install, not being on budget or not delivering the expected benefits,” he said.

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