Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Collaboration with St-Gobain Recherche on glass cutting

Through the internships of Quentin Viaud, we have studied a hard glass-cutting problem. The objective is to minimize the quantity of trim loss when rectangular pieces are cut from large rectangles. This first study has shown that our methodologies are able to cope with this problem for medium-sized instances. Solving the problem with large instances is a scientific challenge that we will address in the a follow-up contract. Quentin Viaud has begun a PhD thesis (CIFRE) in 2015 on this topic.