Coil Cut Optimizer

Cutting coils with less waste

Fast-Square, a company based in Milan, makes Coil Cut Optimizer to plan how steel and other coils are slit and cut. Its job is to work out cutting patterns and schedules so that less material is lost as trim, and to make the programmers who set up slitting machines more effective.

Part of a suite for steel service centres

The product belongs to a wider supply chain suite that Fast-Square offers to steel service centres. The firm lists demand planning, capacity and material planning, cut optimisation, production scheduling and a manufacturing execution system among its modules. It also says its software suits the paper and film industries, and it offers consulting on supply chain projects, project management and lean transformation.

A recent installation

In January 2025 the company announced that EXMET, a steel service centre near Tallinn in Estonia, had gone live with the optimizer. EXMET processes sheet metal and profiles and had just commissioned a new cut-to-length line from an Italian manufacturer to serve customers across the Nordic and Baltic regions.

Background

Fast-Square says its team has more than twenty years of experience with scheduling software and industrial process optimisation. Its website is written largely in Italian, with English sections, and in 2022 an industry portal for the sheet metal sector published an article about the company and this software ahead of the Euroblech fair in Hannover.