Irregular packing problems (also known as nesting problems) belong to the more general
class of cutting and packing problems and consist of allocating a set of irregular and regular …

Two-dimensional (2D) irregular packing problems are widespread in manufacturing
industries such as shipbuilding, metalworking, automotive production, aerospace, clothing …

With the increasing prosperity of additive manufacturing, the 3D-printing shop scheduling
problem has presented growing importance. The scheduling of such a shop is imperative for …

Cutting and packing problems have been a core area of research for many decades.
Irregular shape packing is one of the most recent variants to be widely researched and its …

1: 2• Cui et al. its practical importance, such as in robotic packaging [Wang and Hauser
2019], 3D printing [Chen et al. 2015; Yao et al. 2015], transportation [Egeblad et al. 2010] …

Cutting and packing problems involving irregular shapes, usually known as Nesting
Problems, are common in industries ranging from clothing and footwear to furniture and …

We propose a new constructive algorithm, called HAPE3D, which is a heuristic algorithm
based on the principle of minimum total potential energy for the 3D irregular packing …

The best-fit heuristic is a simple yet powerful one-pass approach for the two-dimensional
rectangular stock-cutting problem. It had achieved the best published results on a wide …

The nofit polygon is a powerful and effective tool for handling the geometric requirements of
solution approaches to irregular cutting and packing problems. Although the concept was …

The distribution of passenger vehicles is a complex task and a high cost factor for
automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). On the way from the production plant …