Frequently employed in the automotive industry, among others, the eight disciplines problem solving (8D) methodology is a quality practice aimed at product and process improvement that can help ...

Bin packing problems are a class of NP-hard combinatorial optimisation challenges with wide-ranging applications in logistics, manufacturing, cloud computing and scheduling. The fundamental task is to ...

Meal kits are notorious for their packaging problem: A typical delivery might come with insulation, gel-filled icepacks, and tiny containers or bags holding individual ingredients–like a few leaves of ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 69, No. 3 (MARCH 2018), pp. 402-415 (14 pages) This paper presents a heuristic for the guillotine two-dimensional bin packing problem, where a set ...

Circle packing encapsulates the challenge of optimally arranging a set of circles within a given container without overlap, a process that has profound implications in both theoretical mathematics and ...

Imagine placing oranges or tennis balls into a rigid container. How can the balls be arranged such that they occupy the largest volume fraction of the container, otherwise known as the largest packing ...

You know how frustrating this is: All you want is a teaspoon or two of capers, but your measuring spoon is too wide to fit into the mouth of the jar. Instead, you have to dump them out into a separate ...

The idea for ShipNaked, a new campaign to reduce the packaging used in e-commerce, came to Sheila Morovati, president and founder of Habits of Waste, when a vacuum arrived at her door in its own box ...