Pyroll Converting Boosts Production Throughput with Greycon opt-Studio

 

Pyroll Converting, Finland, recently contracted Greycon, U.K., to implement its central planning solution, opt-Studio, across four Pyroll converting locations in Europe. The implementation started at the beginning of February 2017 with a pilot mill in the Netherlands and is due to go live by the end of May 2017. Greycon will install opt-Studio at three more mills by the end of 2017.

Pyroll Group is one of the leading paper, "cardboard," paperboard, and plastic converters in the Nordic countries, with operations spanning 14 locations. Pyroll converting provides sheeting and rewinding services handling more than 300,000 metric tons of paper and paperboard annually. Pyroll reports itself as a leader in its field in Europe and a pioneer globally. 

Jarmo Sara, production director at Pyroll Converting, said that "we are looking forward to completing the implementation of Greycon’s solution and the improvements it will allow for our production. Pyroll looks forward to the already justified improvements in overall production efficiency and thus an increase in production capacity. The multisite schedule optimization capability allows Pyroll to utilize centralized production planning to support global customer service. Integrating Greycon’s planning solution with our current ERP system will bring our planners and management the extra time needed for moving from reactive-based decision making to proactive-based instead."

Before the implementation, Greycon and Pyroll executed a to find out how the schedules created by opt-Studio would compare with the current system at Pyroll. Substantial savings were identified in this head-to-head comparison, convincing Pyroll management to progress to solution implementation and further roll-outs.

Jari Kaukiainen, business development manager, EMEA, at Greycon noted that "the implementation of opt-Studio will bring multiple benefits to Pyroll. The optimized schedules will improve the production throughput and will allow Pyroll to accept extra sheeting capacity for the customers. Since the system will manage the scheduling of the orders automatically, the effort of the planners will go towards analyzing and optimization instead of the routine work to feed orders and sequence them into the ERP-system.