| Article ID: | iaor1998790 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 77 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 169 |
| End Page Number: | 178 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1994 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Doumeingts G., Pun L., Elomri A., Morel P. |
| Keywords: | manufacturing industries, programming: linear |
In this paper, we shall try to solve an industrial problem, namely: how to minimize the cutting cost of the fabric in the clothing industry. The paper is divided into three parts: Part 1: Statement of the problem; Part 2: Experimental efforts to identify the correct form of the economic function; Part 3: A combined linear/non-linear programming approach to reach a practical feasible solution.