"ACE Cutting" Optimizer Without measurement, value cannot be ascertained, wastage cannot be eliminated and wealth cannot be maintained.
Introduction "ACE Cutting" optimizer is a professional software package, specifically designed for the manufacturing environment. It determines the best way to cut linear or rectangular parts from sheets, coils or bars and produces optimized cutting layouts. Optimized cutting is vital for economic production of cut component pieces. In production planning "ACE Cutting" optimizer is an indispensable tool for the user, providing him with all the facilities required to enable the highest efficiency of production.
The algorithm The cut-waste minimization problem handled by "ACE Cutting" optimization software is one of the well-known unsolved Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problems of Operations Research. While there exist algorithms that succeed in finding possible solutions, no proven optimal algorithm is known to date.Algorithms that rely on exhaustive evaluation of all possible solutions (which most other systems use) are rendered unfeasible by a combinatorial explosion. To avoid this effect, specialized one and two dimensional algorithms were designed by our development team. Those algorithms have been placed in to the core of the program. "ACE Cutting" optimizer was tested on a large number of actual industrial production problems that were previously solved by specialized personnel. In all of those cases, the solution patterns produced by "ACE Cutting" were at least as good as the human-derived ones, usually better. Moreover, optimization sessions that took humans days to complete were finished in seconds with "ACE Cutting" program.
The benefits:
cost reduction due to the decrease of waste and stock level
cost reduction through improved cutting productivity
a substantial time reduction in the shop and in the office
a more productive purchase strategy and planning
helps to re-use waste and off-cuts
reduces errors through a more clear and accurate production of job orders
