What is it about?

We provide an efficient way to find the best way to produce a limited assortment of stock parts for subsequent cut. The assortment is produces so that the cut is obtained with a minimum trim loss.

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Why is it important?

Our problem originates in automotive glass part production, but the method can be extended to similar situations.

Perspectives

Apparently, this subject is still in the focus of the industrial optimization community. We are working on a new version from the perspective of robust optimization.

Claudio Arbib

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This page is a summary of: Exact and Asymptotically Exact Solutions for a Class of Assortment Problems, INFORMS Journal on Computing, February 2009, INFORMS,
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1080.0274.
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