AutoPanelSizer software determines optimized cutting layouts for the production of rectangular parts from rectangular base material, minimizing waste, production times and manufacturing costs.

AutoPanelSizer computes this cutting layout in 0.3 seconds. It has been taken into account that only 3 destacking stations are available. Parts with the same color must be destacked together.

Cutting layouts in seconds

AutoPanelSizer can compute layouts with up to three cutting stages plus head cuts and considers different constraints imposed by the cutting process and the material. Available remnants and various sizes of raw sheets can be included in the optimization. The computation of a typically sized cutting layout takes only a few seconds to a couple of minutes and can be further reduced using multiple processor cores.

Benefit & value

AutoPanelSizer considers production times and manufacturing costs and weighs time-consuming operations, such as head cuts, recuts, destacking, or remnant storage, against a more efficient material utilization. Production time is reduced by sawing several sheets at the same time in a package cut. Tensions in the material can lead to bent cut edges. To prevent this, AutoPanelSizer can insert stress release cuts for better cut quality. Destacking restrictions of finished cut parts can be taken into account via part groups, as can requested production sequences, even across multiple materials. AutoPanelSizer supports a maximum allowed overproduction that can be set per part: a few additional parts may be placed on the cutting layout to improve the yield.

Category:

Cutting & Packing Optimization

Developed by

Fraunhofer SCAI

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Target groups

Providers of software solutions who would like to integrate optimization into their application, as well as larger companies who are willing to program or have programmed a corresponding interface to their IT systems.

To give you an impression of the performance of our software before you integrate it into your systems, we offer a demo GUI. This simple GUI is not suitable for daily productive use.

Integration into existing software

AutoPanelSizer is distributed as a pure geometric optimization engine and is intended for integration into other applications, for example plant control systems, MES or ERP systems. For this purpose, AutoPanelSizer has an XML interface that can be accessed via standard input / output, via a file interface or as a server service. The software runs on all current Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Features of AutoPanelSizer

Advantages

  • Reduces production times and manufacturing costs
  • Ensures efficient use of materials
  • Takes into account stacking and production sequences
  • Supports stress release cut, head cut, resection cut, package cut
  • can be integrated into existing applications via an XML interface

Material

  • Different plate sizes
  • Individual availability
  • Marking as remnants
  • Consideration of grain

Parts

  • Mandatory parts and optional parts
  • Consideration of grain
  • Part groups for specifying a production sequence
  • Part groups to model destacking restrictions

Machine

  • Creation of guillotine cutting layouts
  • Limitation of the number of cutting stages
  • Minimum and maximum lengths of cuts and saw feeds for strips, parts, identical strips and end sections
  • Minimum and maximum lengths of cuts and saw feeds to map restrictions due to machine widths, transport devices, suction cups, grippers, pressure beams, etc.
  • Presetting the feed direction
  • Consideration of horizontal and vertical kerf widths
  • Trims at the sheet edges individually adjustable for each side

Optimization

  • Consideration of production times and manufacturing costs
  • Balancing time-consuming processes against more efficient material use
  • Optimization over multiple materials with separate properties
  • Runtime and optimization strength adjustable

Third cut plane

  • Recuts on individual parts or cutting of multiple parts
  • Maximum and minimum offcut length
  • Restriction of recuts to one side of the part (length or width)
  • Weighing against yield

Head cuts

  • Sizes of the sectional plans
  • Limitation of the number of head sections
  • Weighing against yield

Package Cuts

  • Maximum number of plates
  • Weighing against yield

Remnants and waste

  • Minimum and maximum size
  • Weighing against yield and optional parts
  • Separate settings for header and main plans
  • Preferential use of existing remnants

Stress release cuts

  • Minimum distance between stress release cuts
  • Minimum length of stress release cuts
  • Stress release cut depending on part size