1985 headquarters london england key people constantine goulimis ceo products x trim opt studio greyconmill number of employees 80 2016 website http www.greycon.com greycon is the world s leading provider of production planning scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for coil based & flat sheet industries . we operate throughout the world . our strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for plastic films flexible packaging nonwovens metals converting and paper & board industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants . these industries are compelled to lower costs improve production & supply chain efficiency and increase customer service specifically in terms of delivery accuracy reliability & visibility and shorter lead times . companies that succeed in improving performance in these areas are the most successful and are forcing their competitors to follow suit . manufacturing companies are relying on optimisation manufacturing execution systems and supply chain management initiatives . greycon s strength is in providing a suite of solutions that understand the complexity of roll base and flat sheet material production from primary machine producing the master rolls through to the final cutting and converting operations . the same challenges and opportunities arise in production of flexible packaging film photovoltaic film nonwoven products specialist steel aluminium copper rolls & tubes and paper and board . during production the variants in the specification of products the permutations in the allocation of orders the complexity of scheduling rules and the importance of real time production feedback allow an industry specific solution to significantly out perform the general supply chain aps mes solutions . history edit greycon operates throughout the world with presence in uk usa china finland france greece and uruguay see contact . greycon originated in 1985 from the industrial systems group of imperial college of the university of london . the three founders of the company alex dimitriadis prof. greyham bryant and dr. constantine goulimis developed innovative software for the paper and board industry and formed the company to specialise in the application of advanced mathematical techniques for manufacturing . some of our key milestones 1985 greycon formed . 1997 over 6 million tonnes per annum mtpa scheduled by greycon in the paper industry 1999 north america operation 2002 strategic alliance with sap and metso 2003 x trim 2.0 retrim implementation aps connector to sap apo 2005 asia app & moorim projects formation of greycon latin america sap certification 2006 siam kraft project 2008 initiation of mes solution 2009 china office launched multi core parallel processing 2010 opt studio launched 2012 greycon greece established usiminas & prolamsa projects in the steel industry 2013 delivered a series of significant projects including biaxplen in russia blue paper in france kipa in turkey and fiskeby in sweden . 2014 greycon implemented at 500th site metals project in south america usiminas & prolamsa and in north america aj oster 50 customers worldwide in the plastics film industry 2015 greycon trim manages 200 million tons per annum mtpa in the paper industry 10th india project implemented live lliam project in russia with russian implementation partnership fiskeby & mel board mills go live greycon suite 8.5 release kbp a new pattern reduction heuristic aims edit greycon develops and implements solutions that contain elements of mathematical optimisation and are used in supply chain problems in the paper film and nonwovens industries . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title greycon & oldid 742869892 categories companies established in 1985information technology companies of englandcompanies based in london navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 october 2016 at 09 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view