Production planning and scheduling in the pulp and paper mill is very challenging. Most planners, however, use spreadsheets for production planning and scheduling in the pulp and paper mills, which is time-consuming and sub-optimal.

Paper manufacturing companies have to distinguish themselves by offering the best customer service at least cost, since paper prices are market-driven. Therefore, several criteria are to be properly considered with appropriate weights while devising a production plan and schedule.

XSEED Paper is the first optimization product in the market for preparing the optimized production schedule in integrated paper mills considering multiple paper machines, pulp plant and recovery plant together. Our optimization software takes into account several practical constraints such as:

ORDER PRIORITIZATION

The optimizer can accommodate different types of orders with different priority levels.

REALISTIC SCHEDULING

Several operational constraints such as limits on paper campaign levels, gap between campaigns of same grade and desired tank levels are handled efficiently.

SITE BALANCING

The production rates of all resources are made as smooth as possible in order to eliminate unnecessary energy expense and machinery wear.

PLANNED MAINTENANCE / DISRUPTIONS HANDLING

The disruptions and planned maintenance in various resources such as digester and paper machine can be taken into account.

FREEZING OF CAMPAIGNS

The optimizer allows the freezing of schedule for some campaigns that have been already programmed in cutting phase.

Our analytics products are extremely configurable and scalable. If your organization requires customization of the optimization model to incorporate your organization’s unique performance metrics or unique business rules, our optimization experts can customize the product quickly and deliver it.

Contact us for more details on this optimization software.