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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1998
Milind Wasudeo Dawande, Peekskill, NY (US);
Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Ho Soo Lee, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Mark Elliot Trumbo, Pleasantville, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An efficient computer implemented method is used to design slabs for production from an order book. This method minimizes the number of slabs designed to fulfill an order book. This method is based on a heuristic algorithm which is a variant of the greedy approach for the set covering method. The variations are novel in three ways. First, designing slabs using the flexibility in the order size; second, using weight for choosing large slabs; and third, controlling the exponential nature of enumeration of the set of all subsets by constructing only the largest slab at each step.
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