Alma, an expert in nesting software for cutting

If careful attention is not paid to nesting the parts to cut, consumption of raw materials can double. This increases costs, produces more waste and consumes more energy. This is true for all types of materials, but particularly for industries where the raw materials represent a substantial proportion of the manufacturing cost, e.g. half the cost of a piece of apparel. The quality of nesting then becomes a major productivity issue. We have been working in this area for nearly 40 years with our automatic nesting optimization software products.

It is possible to spend time optimizing the nesting of parts on the material “manually”, but then you will realize that this is a complicated task; the number of possible combinations of parts quickly explodes!  Since you cannot be certain to find the best possible solution, you must find a good solution, in a reasonable period of time.  This is what our algorithms do, and they are ranked among the best in the world.

We have devised many different methods to enable them to intelligently find a good solution. We are constantly fine-tuning these methods, while also adding new possibilities to meet the requirements of the different materials and cutting technologies that are being developed. Our algorithms are used everywhere on the planet, both by large industrial groups and by the smallest companies, to cut metal, wood, paper, stone, and even pastry!