Packing & cutting
Less waste, from rules that are proven to be better.
For companies whose software packs or cuts: bins, containers, pallets, sheets, rolls.
Packing and cutting software lives on its placement rules. A slightly better rule saves material on every order, which is exactly why a gain that only looks better is expensive.
- Placement and packing rules
- How cutting patterns are generated
- The search that combines them
- Material waste or fill rate
- Number of bins, containers or sheets
- Time to produce a result
- Google An AI-found rule for packing jobs onto machines in Google’s data centres continuously recovers 0.7% of all compute. Source
- FunSearch (DeepMind, 2023) AI-written bin-packing rules beat the classic first-fit and best-fit rules, and kept winning on data they had never seen. Source
Third-party results. They show how much a small rule change is worth at scale.
The checks are the same everywhere
Old and new code run on the same problems, several times each. A statistical test rules out luck, nothing else may get worse, and some problems stay out of the AI’s reach so wins must hold up there too. Every accepted change arrives as a pull request your engineers review.
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