Minimizing paper waste and setup costs in offset printing

Baumann, Philipp; Kammermann, Manuel Stanley; Elsaesser, Silvan (20 January 2022). Minimizing paper waste and setup costs in offset printing. In: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (pp. 858-862). IEEE 10.1109/IEEM50564.2021.9673049

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Reducing paper waste and increasing resource efficiency has become a priority in the offset printing industry. We consider the production process of a company that prints customer-specific designs on napkin pouches. The planning problem consists of assigning the designs to slots of some printing plates such that the demand for each design is met, all technological constraints are satisfied, and the total production costs, which include setup and waste costs, are minimized. The main contribution of the paper is a matheuristic that takes advantage of the fact that the demands for individual designs are a multiple of a minimum order quantity. In a computational analysis based on real-world problem instances, we compared the proposed matheuristic to an exact approach. The matheuristic consistently outperformed the exact approach in terms of solution quality and running time.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Financial Management > Professorship for Quantitative Methods in Business Administration

UniBE Contributor:

Baumann, Philipp, Kammermann, Manuel Stanley

Subjects:

600 Technology > 650 Management & public relations

ISBN:

978-1-6654-3771-4

Publisher:

IEEE

Language:

English

Submitter:

Nina Ackermann

Date Deposited:

29 Apr 2022 13:07

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:09

Publisher DOI:

10.1109/IEEM50564.2021.9673049

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/165836

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/165836

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