Production optimisation with R
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Last year, I was approached by a friend who works in a small, family-owned steel and metal business. He wanted to know if it was possible to create something that would help him solve the problem of minimising waste when cutting steel beams. Sounds like a problem for linear programming!
When I started out, there was not a huge amount of beginners articles on how to use linear programming in R that made sense for somebody not that versed in math. Linear programming with R was…