Research Article

Multibox Three-Dimensional Packing Problems for Heterogeneous Extrudable Items

Table 5

A comparison table of the results of the packing scheme.

No squeeze operation on itemsSqueeze operation on items

Evaluation index −999.137−999.173
Number of packages used10001000
Average space utilization 86.346%82.799%
Average packing solution calculation time (s)3.53.8