Article ID: | iaor2002614 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 79 |
End Page Number: | 90 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
Journal: | IIE Transactions |
Authors: | Ammons J.C., Jacobs-Blecha C., Schutte A., Smith T. |
Keywords: | clothing industry |
Cut order planning is the problem of planning the fabric cut for a set of apparel orders. A specified set of garments is orderd by the customer to be produced by a given date. Affiliated with this order is a set of garment sizes, and patterns for cutting each size. The fabric for cutting the order must be arranged on the cutting table in such a way as to minimize the cost of cutting the order. This plan must incorporate a partition of the pattern pieces to be arranged on top of the fabric layout. A mathematical model of the problem is developed and analyzed. On the basis of this analysis, solution approaches are developed that have been implemented on a desktop PC-based computer. Validated on representative industry problems, the approach is shown to be effective and versatile.