Abstract

The supply of steel blocks with customised dimensions for clients within the metalworking industry requires the effective management of a large and highly variable stock of steel blocks. This paper proposes a cutting decision process for daily tailored orders of a real-life steel retailer. The problem is approached as a three-dimensional (3D) cutting and packing (CP Revised 11 December 2015; Accepted 25 January 2016]

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