Wood products manufacturing optimization: A survey

SM Hosseini, A Peer - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wood industry is a basic industry supplying primary materials to produce a wide range
of products. The wood processing in sawmills bridges the transformation flow of raw …

Adaptive simulated annealing with greedy search for the circle bin packing problem

Y Yuan, K Tole, F Ni, K He, Z Xiong, J Liu - Computers & Operations …, 2022 - Elsevier
We introduce a new bin packing problem, termed the circle bin packing problem with circular
items (CBPP-CI). The problem involves packing all the circular items into multiple identical …

A simulated annealing approach for the circle bin packing problem with rectangular items

K Tole, R Moqa, J Zheng, K He - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
We introduce a new variant of Bin Packing Problem (BPP) called the Circular Bin Packing
Problem with Rectangular Items (CBPP-RI). CBPP-RI involves the dense orthogonal …

A configuration space evolutionary algorithm with local minimizer for weighted circles packing problem

J Liu, K Zhang, X Yan, Q Zhang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
The weighted circles packing (WCP) problem typically aims for arranging some circular
objects into a larger rectangular (or circular) container with the constraint of non …

Packing computing servers into the vessel of an underwater data center considering cooling efficiency

ZH Hu, YX Zheng, YG Wang - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract An Underwater Data Center (UDC) is an underwater vessel full of computing
servers and designed with a cooling system using cold water in the ocean. A UDC vessel is …

Metaheuristic algorithms for a special cutting stock problem with multiple stocks in the transformer manufacturing industry

Q Luo, B Du, Y Rao, X Guo - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates a special cutting stock problem arisen in the production of iron core
from the transformer manufacturing industry, in which a set of strips are cut from coiled …

An effective approach to the two-dimensional rectangular packing problem in the manufacturing industry

H Fırat, N Alpaslan - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The rectangle packing area minimization problem (RPAMP) has a wide range of
applications in industry. The purpose of RPAMP is to ensure maximum use of the materials …

A cutting plane method and a parallel algorithm for packing rectangles in a circular container

A Silva, LC Coelho, M Darvish, J Renaud - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We study a two-dimensional packing problem where rectangular items are placed into a
circular container to maximize either the number or the total area of items packed. We adapt …

Maximizing value yield in wood industry through flexible sawing and product grading based on wane and log shape

K Forghani, M Carlsson, P Flener, M Fredriksson… - … and Electronics in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The optimization of sawing processes in the wood industry is critical for maximizing
efficiency and profitability. The introduction of computerized tomography scanners provides …

Hybrid-biased genetic algorithm for packing unequal rectangles into a fixed-size circle

Q Luo, Y Rao, P Yang, X Zhao - Computers & Operations Research, 2024 - Elsevier
This study addresses the two-dimensional circular knapsack packing problem, which packs
unequal rectangles into a circular container to maximize the number or the area of items …