Cutting paper in Richards Bay: Dynamic local or global optimization in the trim problem
The cutting stock or trim problem arises when jumbo rolls of paper are slit into reels of various width ("deckled"). The problem was examined as early as 1954; it is now seen as a classical Linear Programming formulation. The problem may be easy to formulate, but it is difficult to solve f...
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| Language: | English |
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Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA)
2003-12-01
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| Series: | ORiON |
| Online Access: | http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/497 |