TRIM optimization with TRIM SUITE

T.CON’s new TRIM SUITE is a full-scale optimization application for the creation of patterns and cutting plans for goods in the form of reels and sheets.

TRIM SUITE At A GLANCE

Easy to learn with innovative user interface

True optimization by automatically creating patterns and cutting plans

Optimally combine orders

Produce the optimum quantity to best serve your customers

Companies in the paper and packaging industry are all struggling with the same problem: manual planning of cutting plans is time-consuming and does not always provide the optimal solution. Employees are busy for hours to optimize one single cutting plan.

T.CON’s Trim Optimization enables our customers to reduce trim loss and waste with a fully featured deckle optimization tool. T.CON’s TRIM SUITE is fully featured and integrated into your work process. TRIM SUITE creates and compares results within seconds, it is easy to use and can maximize savings by defining costs for various aspects of production, including material loss, knife changes, storage or yield.

Advantages

True optimization by automatically creating patterns and cutting plans (LP=Linear Programming, robust solver)
Optimally combine orders
Easy to learn with innovative user interface
Visually appealing and clear graphical user interface

Benefits

Reduce trim loss/waste with the help of trim optimization
Minimize setup times by assigning penalty costs for knife changes
Produce the optimum quantity to best serve your customers
Reduce stock with integration of existing stock, production or purchases as part of the optimization
Avoid mistakes by integrating checks on order attributes and technical restrictions of your resources

Functions and Features

Integration in PP/DS (APO) heuristics
Integration in PP/DS detailed planning board
Integration in MES CAT: automatically creates new cutting plans during running production if needed
Display cutting plans using combined orders in SAP standard
Optional and binary optional planning of orders (stock supplement, future orders)
Single stage for reel and sheet (simplex, multiplex)
Multiple stage optimization
Existing stock and planned production or purchases are accounted for
Quality Trim: takes defects of existing stock into account automatically during optimization
Automatically create sets of solutions, in dialogue or background
Create and compare multiple solutions by varying penalty costs or technical restrictions

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More Information

Product flyer | TRIM SUITE
Checklist for your optimal TRIM Solution
Success story | Perlen Packaging: Increased productivity thanks to less waste and lower material costs
Success story | delfortgroup implements MES CAT to achieve the intelligent enterprise
Success story | 5 years of TRIM SUITE at Steinbeis Papier