What looks very simple at the first approch, appears rapidly to be a dauting chalenge and time consuming task. Cutting drinking straw, aluminium profiles, copper bars, paper rol, wood logs, pipes, coils, rolls or any other material into smaller pieces, the problem remains the same.

The paper industry was the first confrontated with the cutting stock problem. how to cut the rolls into smaller widths and minimize the amount of scrap.

With Clever Beaver leftover from current or previous sessions are reused to minimize the to scrap material.

Clever Beaver keeps the produce saw dust quantity and report it in the scrap report

• Quote mode: Get the quantity of raws needed to fulfill the order in such a way as to minimize the amount of scrap and quote the exact quantity. after defining the parameters
  
  Parameters:
  • Main Units (cm or mm, imperial soon)
  • Raw Standard Length
  • Saw blade thickness or Shearing cuts.
  
  Returned calculations visible as graphical bars and table.
  
  Graphical bars:
  • Master Length used
  • Cuts obtained from master
  • Leftover length
  Table:
  • Master Length used
  • Cuts obtained from master
  • Total used length from master
  • Leftover length
  
  Logged subscribers are able to export to-cut list (csv)



• Cutter mode (logged subscribers):
  Parameters:
  • Main Units (cm or mm, imperial soon)
  • Raw Standard Length automatically retrieved from selected vendor raw
  • Saw blade thickness or Shearing cuts.
  • Tolerance (to use leftovers smaller than the requested length).
  • Vendor/part number selection. (available raw stock is visible)
  • Import previuosly saved quote
  • combine if necessary different order with similar raws
  
  If not enough stock to perform the request a message is returned and stock is not changed.
  If stock is ok, calculations are returned as graphical bars and table stock is changed.
  
  Additionnal buttons
  • Import previously saved csv quote:
  • Export result sheet as excel list for processing work shop:
  • Button to create pdf list of bar codes to identify each cut (order reference, length, n of N)
  
  
  Graphical bars:
  • Master Length used
  • Cuts obtained from master
  • Leftover length
  Table:
  • Master Length used
  • Cuts obtained from master
  • Total used length from master
  • Leftover length


• Stock management (logged subscribers):
  • Scrap bin: reports saw dust and scrapped non-usable leftovers in Kg and USD based on the latest information from London Metal Exchange
  • View stock details
  • Adjust initial stock quantity
  • Adjust stock quantity
  • Send to scrap by item
  • Send to scrap by maximum length
  • Add part number from vendor list
  • View details for part number from vendor list source document(pdf)

In Short:
Cutting by sawing or shearing from master raw's stock while minimizing the to scrap leftovers size is a very complex task.
Clever beaver is an application specially designed for this goal.
Once cutting-stock process is launched it generates a report (can be exported) and returns a graphical representation of the master bar with the different cuts and leftovers as well.
Saw blade thickness can be adjusted and the dust produced during sawing the bars is calculated and information is reported with the estimated value based on the latest London Metal exchange information for non-ferrous metals(aluminium,copper), this is interesting for valuable materials like copper or silver bars or other materials.