Press Release Body: For 30 years Optimation® has been the world leader in Part Nesting for Optimized Material and Labor utilization. Consistently providing product advancement leadership to industry, the company’s new Nesting Technology, AxiomVE make previous nesting methods obsolete. The new technology, Vision Emulation™, allows the system to “see” the shape of parts, just as human eyes would view them. When a person looks at a part, they see the whole shape and any special features on the part. This information is then used to determine if the part will fit in an area of the nest. Vision Emulation eliminates excessive trial and error as well as excessive rotation. In the current issue of The Machinist magazine, manufacturing journalist TR Cutler addressed, “Industrial automation: Clearly seeing part nesting.” Nesting is a big industrial automation challenge and according to Michael D Lundy PE and President of Blue Springs, Missouri-based Optimation (www.optimation.com), “Nesting parts together to make an efficient nest is a very complex problem. For just fifty parts, there are over 10100 alternative ways to nest the parts. If a company adds rotation, the number gets much larger. 10100 is a number so large that a super computer could build one million nests per second…it would take over 1084 lifetimes to build all possible nests. One cannot brute force this large challenge.” To solve such large challenges, a mathematical technique called ‘fathoming’ is required. It is a method used to eliminate most of the alternative nests and focus only on the potential optimal nests. Most nests can be eliminated without ever being considered (placing the luggage in the driver’s seat stops the road trip; such a packaging consideration is not needed.)
The optimal solution that satisfies all the real world manufacturing conditions is quite small. Fathoming ensures that only nests that are in the optimal set are evaluated. Lundy explains, “We call this Multi-Dimensional Combinatorial Nesting or MDCN for short. All other companies use heuristics that are often suboptimal and many not even find feasible solutions.” As the graphic indicates, there are a lot of solutions that will satisfy material efficiency but destroy a manufacturer’s schedule and machine efficiency. Standard heuristics crash badly when presented with real world problems. MDCN looks at many different dimensions affecting cost. Schedule, hot parts, material efficiency, order completion, tool optimization, common cutting, torch load and other costs make finding the optimal nest Multi-Dimensional.
Optimation (www.optimation.com) offers benchmarking against any other method of part nesting; recent benchmarks have show improvements up to 15% in material efficiency alone. As lean efficiencies are essential, the most advanced nesting technology guarantees the most important parts are always nested in the next available machine, providing advanced information to integrated costing, labor reporting, and material inventory systems. Because Optimation is strong financially and has the most advanced technology; the company offers direct financing from its own capital resources.
Optimation www.optimation.com Michael D Lundy P.E. Opti1@optinest.com 877-827-2100
Web Site: http://www.optimation.com
Contact Details: Optimation 704 NW Mock Street Blue Springs, MO 64015 816-228-2100
2022
