The Cutting Stock Problem in the Flat Glass Industry -- Selection of Stock Sizes

Abstract

AbstractIn the glass industry holding good stock sizes appears to have at least as big an impact on trim loss as cutting up the stock plates efficiently. In this paper two tech niques are described for determining "optimal" stock sizes, one a heuristic method and the other an integer programming algorithm. Several actual applications within the glass industry are described, and illustrative results of the improvements in wastage that have been achieved are given.