# Cutting and Yield Optimization

> Custom cutting stock for coils, sheets and tubes. Maximize yield, eliminate waste.

Every percentage point of raw material yield is direct margin. Orion develops cutting models specific to your material and your process (coils, sheets, tubes and profiles), taking into account real machine and inventory constraints.

## Overview

- Area: Industrial Operations
- Delivery: customizable solution
- First pilot: about 8 weeks
- Solution 11 of 15
- Topics: Coils, Sheets, Tubes and profiles

## When this decision gets expensive

If two or more sound familiar, this solution will most likely pay for itself.

- The cutting plan is built from operator experience.
- Scrap has been flat for years, with no quantified reduction target.
- Usable offcuts do not systematically go back into inventory.
- Every new order requires redoing the cutting plan.

## What Orion delivers

- A cutting stock model tailored to your material, machine and offcut policy.
- Cutting plans that combine orders to maximize yield.
- Management of reusable offcuts within the model itself.
- Integration of the plan into the production scheduling flow.

## Technical foundation

- **Cutting stock:** Column generation and integer formulations for 1D and 2D cutting patterns.
- **Process constraints:** Knife width, maximum number of patterns and machine limits in the model.
- **Offcut policy:** Offcuts classified and returned to available inventory for the next cycle.

## Indicators tracked

- Yield percentage
- Scrap generated per ton processed
- Number of cutting patterns per order
- Raw material consumption per unit produced

## Case studies for this solution

- [Cutting optimization cut raw-material waste by 80%](https://orionotimizacao.com/en/case-studies/raw-material-yield-coil-cutting) — One hundred coil types, eighty cutting patterns and projected inventory are now solved together, instead of decided one cut at a time.

## Talk about this solution

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E-mail: orion@orionotimizacao.com
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