Arbib, Claudio; Marinelli, Fabrizio; Pezzella, Ferdinando - In: International Journal of Production Economics 136 (2012) 2, pp. 287-296
This paper addresses a cutting stock problem under typical resource constraints that arise when working centres with nesting capabilities are associated with automatic feeders/stackers. The critical resource is the number of buffers available to host the batches built up by the centre. To cope...