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Glass sheet nesting
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Buy & plan08 of 15 · Production manager
Five nesting strategies, and every plan reports its own yield.
Material is the biggest number on a window factory’s cost sheet, and the difference between a good nest and an average one is measurable on every bar.
01Nesting strategies
Five strategies, and the plan tells you which one paid
- Greedy, knapsack, hybrid, exact dynamic programming, and an external solver
- Kerf, end trim, reusable-rest threshold and a cap on distinct cut sizes
- Yield reported on the plan itself — this one returned 99.56 % on 5800 mm stock
- A 5,257 mm remainder put back on the shelf rather than into the skip
02Glass sheet nesting
Glass nested as sheets, not as a list
- Shelf packing with kerf, and rotation where the pane allows it
- Utilisation per sheet
- A glass cutting list the cutter can work straight from
03Machine file output
Straight to the machine
- Saw CSV, machining-centre DXF and generic G-code, per machine
- The cutting plan is the source, so the file and the paperwork cannot disagree
What this desk watches
The numbers on the wall
Yield and waste surface on the Production Control dashboard, with a per-day waste sparkline and a downtime Pareto beside it.
Yield per plan
Reusable length recovered
Waste rate against your threshold
What it produces
01A cutting plan with its yield
02A profiles and accessories BOQ
03A machine file
04A wastage summary
