What is it about?

We develop a heuristic for minimizing trim loss while maintaining a limited stock assortment.

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Why is it important?

Based on theoretical work previously published on the INFORMS J. on Computing, our heuristics takes real shop floor requirements into account.

Perspectives

Research on assortment problems, and in particular on stock and cut optimization, potentially improves factory efficiency in general.

Claudio Arbib

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This page is a summary of: An optimization model for trim loss minimization in an automotive glass plant, European Journal of Operational Research, December 2007, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.07.034.
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