Patent ID: 8364303

Claim:
A method for corrective planning and optimization of a finishing process in the processing of at least one of rolled goods and flat goods, wherein the finishing process cuts to size an intermediate product by utilizing at least one of a plurality of cutting patterns, the method comprising: working from a predefined production plan, performing needs-based optimization of the finishing process in a processing unit of a computer processing device, prior to commencing the finishing process on the intermediate product, the optimization being performed in the following steps including: in a first step, determining with spatial resolution, with access to at least one data source, condition-related information and/or qualitative data relating to the intermediate product that has already been manufactured and is available for finishing; in a second step, acquiring customer-specific product requirements; in a third step, processing the determined condition-related information and/or qualitative data, wherein a spatially resolved comparison of the determined condition-related information and/or qualitative data is performed with respect to the acquired customer-specific product requirements, so that for each possible cutting pattern, at least one of a respective yield and a respective output with respect to a required quality is defined, and a comparison is made on this basis between various cutting patterns; in a fourth step, generating an optimization model according to the requirements; and in a fifth step, automatically determining a proposed solution for the optimization model so as to define a finishing process where the cutting pattern is re-defined in a manner optimized according to need.