CHAMPCUT

Product Features

• Work collaboratively in the cloud.
  Co-workers can view and clone production orders and cutting plans of the team. All data can be exported to Excel for the case of resigning from this service. CHAMPCUT can be controlled via an API from tailor made tools in order to integrate it into your software ecosystem. For illustration purpose see the MS Excel API Macro.
• Allow flexibility in customer demand.
  The customer is not always strict with ordering roll quantities. Some customers allow overproduction which gives you opportunities to improve material utilization. CHAMPCUT takes advantage of such flexibility for your benefit.
• Constrain your cutting plans by the maximum number of cuts.
  Note that the number of cuts is one less the number of knives of the slitting unit. The edges are counted as waste.
• Constrain your cutting plans further by the maximum number of different widths per cutting pattern.
  Usually, customers allow only single width cuts to be packed on each pallet. If too many different widths are present in one cutting pattern, the workers doing the packaging have to deal with too many paletts at the end of the line making the operation difficult to handle. Other reasons might be limiting the complexity for manual labeling or restrictions of a packaging machine.
• Constrain your cutting plans further by the maximum number of cutting patterns.
  For every cutting patterns the position of knives at the slitting unit is to be adjusted. This causes downtime for an offline slitting processes and waste production for an online slitting processes. The solver will find the best number of patterns by compromising the waste during knife positioning against the trim waste. However, you can also pass a hard constraint for the maximum number of patterns to the solver.
• Minimize the total number of knife positionings.
  If your slitting unit is not capable of automatic knife positioning, then every individual knife change cost downtime or waste. By changing the sequence of patterns and the order of cuts within a pattern, CHAMPCUT can minimize the number of knife positionings.