Readjust
Readjust to interruptions with the click of a button.
Seamless
Seamless incorporation of downtime events.
Minimize orders
Minimize late and split orders
Improve inventory flows
Improve inventory flows through integrated coordination across the value chain
Eliminate
Eliminate manual interventions in scheduling
Why Hatch Downstream Planner and Scheduler?
Hatch Downstream Planner and Scheduler addresses three major challenges in order fulfillment, coil sequencing inventory management which can impact production throughput by up to 15%.
By creating a holistic plan to maximize production capacity and creating scheduling rules, Hatch Downstream planner and Scheduler improve utilization and order fulfilment timelines.
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Streamlined production
Get enhanced efficiency in production expenses throughout all stages, encompassing mining operations (such as drilling, blasting, and haulage), processing, and inventory management.
Scenario analysis
Help stakeholders identify risks, optimize performance, improve resilience, and promote collaboration in mine-to-market value chain optimization.
Intelligent Inventory and stockpile management
Minimize variability and mitigate negative impacts by enhanced stockpile management, ideal volumes, and locations of materials along the chain.
HxO
HxO is a no-code, advanced planning and scheduling software that effortlessly optimizes complex industrial operations. HxO gives you critical insights into your assets, processes, and frameworks to help identify optimization opportunities, compare and test scenarios, mitigate risks, and predict performance based on mathematical modeling and algorithms.
The Hatch Mine-to-Market Optimizer can help you make informed planning and operational decisions on material handling, blending, and pricing. Powered by Hatch X Optimizer (HxO), our state-of-the-art optimization engine, it’s ideal for managing all your mine-to-market projects.
Navigate with certainty using Hatch Downstream Planner & Scheduler
Based on Hatch’s robust experience of 60+ years in the metals industry and its no-code HxO Optimizer software, Downstream Planner and Scheduler is a cloud-native, data-centric, and collaborative SaaS solution that helps you maximize production capacity by generating optimal muti-week production campaigns across the entire value chain.
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Meltshop 4.0 is proven to deliver up to $10 USD/ton savings in production costs.
Built-in intelligence based upon more than 60 years of experience operating in the iron and steel
industries unlocks powerful capabilities – predictive analysis, meaningful elimination of unnecessary
costs, synchronized and collaborative operations across multiple sites – meant to expand margins.

Meltshop 4.0 unlocks value through optimization for a leading stainless steel manufacturer
Meltshop 4.0 can deliver up to $10 USD/ton savings in production costs.
Built-in intelligence based upon more than 60 years of experience operating in the iron and steel industries unlocks powerful capabilities – predictive analysis, meaningful elimination of unnecessary costs, synchronized and collaborative operations across multiple sites – meant to expand margins.
Navigate with certainty using Hatch Meltshop 4.0:
Built on Hatch’s 60+ years of experience in the metals industry and its no-code HxO Optimizer software, Meltshop 4.0 is a cloud-native, data-centric, and collaborative SaaS solution that delivers actionable insights, predictability, and simplicity for iron and steel production.
- Conduct “what-if” scenarios to compare possible strategies and expected outcomes
- Determine optimal raw material procurement to manage cost
- Optimize raw material blending to meet quality and energy goals
- Define best operating parameters to reduce unnecessary operational and cost variability
- Synchronize across multiple sites
- Match market demand to eliminate excess inventory of low-demand product
- Pinpoint opportunity to reduce carbon emissions
Hatch Downstream planner and scheduler help steel producers unlock smarter production campaigns and improve equipment utilization and order fulfillment. 10-15% impact on throughput efficiency