Fast-Square

Fast-Square is a Milan-based software and consulting company serving manufacturers that cut and process coils, sheet and rolls. Its core product helps steel service centres plan how coils are slit and cut so less material is lost as trim, and it also builds scheduling software for steel, paper and film production.

What Fast-Square offers

• Coil Cut Optimizer (CCO) — software that plans coil cutting to reduce offcut waste and help slitting machine programmers work faster.
• CCO Suite — a wider software set built for steel service centres, including manufacturing execution functions.
• Production scheduling software — planning tools for lines in the steel, paper and film industries.
• Supply chain consulting — advisory work on supply chain management projects.
• Lean project management — support for running lean transformation programmes.

Who it works with

The firm works mainly with steel service centres and process manufacturers. One published case covers EXMET, a sheet metal and profile processor near Tallinn in Estonia, which runs the optimiser across two plants after adding a new cut-to-length line.

Key facts

• Based in: Milan, Italy
• Experience: team with more than 20 years in scheduling systems and industrial process optimisation
• Sectors: steel, paper and film