opt-Studio
Intelligent Scheduling Solutions

Balancing inventory costs, customer service, and production efficiency

mobile ATP/CTP functionality

Sourcing materials flexibly across production stages to fulfil ATP/CTP needs

Addressing your mobile ATP/CTP needs, our solution seamlessly sources materials across production stages

unlimited what-if capability

Fastest scheduling engine with unlimited what-if scenarios

Unparalleled what-if capability with our solution, coupled with the fastest scheduling engine for unlimited scenario exploration.

Intelligent Scheduling Solutions

Balancing inventory costs, customer service, and production efficiency

Balancing inventory costs, customer service, and production efficiency

mobile ATP/CTP functionality

Addressing your mobile ATP/CTP needs, our solution seamlessly sources materials across production stages

unlimited what-if capability

Fastest scheduling engine with unlimited what-if scenarios

Unparalleled what-if capability with our solution, coupled with the fastest scheduling engine for unlimited scenario exploration

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Replenishment Optimisation

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Replenishment Optimisation

Discover opt-Studio's proven strategies for efficient block scheduling, automatic stock allocation, and future stock consumption to elevate your manufacturing process.

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Discover opt-Studio's proven strategies for efficient block scheduling, automatic stock allocation, and future stock consumption.

Discover opt-Studio's proven strategies for efficient block scheduling, automatic stock allocation, and future stock consumption to elevate your manufacturing process.

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Discover opt-Studio's proven strategies for efficient block scheduling, automatic stock allocation, and future stock consumption to elevate your manufacturing process.

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Case Study

"I would like to thank the Greycon team for the implementation of our new MES in our Varennes site.

"opt-Studio is giving me a very good overview specifically when planning our sheeters. It has given us the possibility to optimise the order sequence on the sheeters which has increased the productivity significantly. "

Anders Thor
Main Production Planner
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"opt-Studio is giving me a very good overview specifically when planning our sheeters. "

"opt-Studio is giving me a very good overview specifically when planning our sheeters. It has given us the possibility to optimise the order sequence on the sheeters which has increased the productivity significantly. "

Anders Thor
Main Production Planner
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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 centre 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: optimised 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 optimisation using accurate schedules
  • Capable of unattended automatic scheduling (e.g. in the middle of the night)

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Features

opt-Studio® (Optimisation Studio) seamlessly combines Greycon’s world-class trim optimisation expertise with the capability to generate optimised 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 optimisation and trim optimisation) with unrivalled what-if capability; now offered with an optional mobile client.

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Key Features

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Scheduling & Planning

  • Optimised block schedule for a short-term and medium-term horizon
  • Refresh the schedule automatically on every machine in a few seconds, giving full visibility of the impact of your decisions or external events

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Optimisation

  • Find optimal trim optimisation solutions
  • Compare multiple alternative solutions using what-if capabilities

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Promise Dates & Order Management

  • Provide Available-to-Promise / Capable-to-Promise (ATP / CTP) engine for Order Entry Systems to promise dates for new order enquiries
  • Release the short-term plan to the shop floor and receive production updates to monitor the execution

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Inventory Management

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

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Multi-Site & Capacity Management

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

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Production Visibility

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

opt-Studio Mobile App

The opt-Studio Mobile App provides instant and convenient access to real-time production and planning data anytime, anywhere. With the ability to drill down into specific order details, monitor current machine activities, and review future production plans, users gain enhanced visibility and control over operations from their phone or tablet. The app offers a global view of orders, allowing users to check alarms, track production progress, and search through the order list with ease. By enabling quick access to key production KPIs and customer service metrics, opt-Studio Mobile improves responsiveness, efficiency, and decision-making—ensuring seamless operations, no matter where you are.

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opt-Studio - The premier advanced scheduling planning system designed and created to solve your scheduling issues, enabling you to focus on your business objectives.

Functional Highlights

Block Schedule Optimisation

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 optimisation-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 minimising 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)

Analysing 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 Optimisation

For producers that need geometric optimisation of their material. Optimise 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 compromising dispatch dates.

• Minimises waste or maximises profit
• Supports different diameter problems
• Allows optional and all-or-nothing orders
• Optimises 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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X-Trim

Now incorporating machine learning and patented algorithms, X-Trim® is the most widely deployed and deeply functional trim optimisation system in the world. Minimising waste to improve bottom-line profits, X-Trim is capable of handling a wide range of deckling calculations and is designed to resolve the most complex of problems.

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Greycon Analytics

Greycon Analytics enable real-time visibility of planning and production data throughout your organisation. Greycon Analytics allow instant access from browsers, smartphones and other mobile devices, keeping all who need to know up to date with the latest planning and production data.

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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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