The design and synthesis of different strategies for one-dimensional cutting stock optimization now allows a much faster optimization, especially when a large number of parts to be cut is involved. This was achieved by a skilful combination of classical strategies and evolutionary algorithms.

SIMON Modellierungen provides these new algorithms as usual in a .NET Assembly for easy integration into your applications. To increase the capacity the new cutting stock optimization runs in multiple threads. Thus multi-core processors are supported optimal and the quality of the optimization is improved further.

The SIMON Modellierungen optimization .NET assembly is now available in version V2.0, which has many new enhancements.

Amongst others we further optimized our code. So Evaluation of Polynomials is now up to 4x faster than before.

Only one assembly is furthermore needed for doing optimization tasks. This is written in C# and it’s complete object orientation ensures to instantiate and run as many optimizations as needed in parallel. I.e. you can take advantage of the oncoming multi core processors on PCs. For example the one-dimensional Cutting Stock Optimization already handles the number of system processors automatically, i.e. if 4 PC processors are available, 4 threads run in parallel automatically.

The optimization .NET assembly is available for the Microsoft .NET Frameworks 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0, i.e. no further installation of a Microsoft .NET frameworks is needed, the main application, which is primarily yours, determines the .NET framework version.

There is no need to differentiate between x64/x86 hardware platforms anymore and no Microsoft VC++ Redistributable Package is needed moreover.