What is in this week's file24 instances, pack of 12 Oct 2026
Nothing on this page was measured in a real factory. Every instance below was generated by our own solver from a dated seed. The changeover minutes are made up to be plausible for the rule family named; the saving is real arithmetic on those made-up minutes. You pick the instance whose shape matches your shop and use its order as a starting guess, then re-run the same arithmetic on your real changeover times to see if it still wins. The order was worked out on made-up minutes, so it is a head start, not an answer. The Saved % column shows how much the job order matters for that shape; it is not what your shop will save.
| Instance | Rule family | Machines | Jobs | Naive minutes | Best found | Saved | Saved % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA-2026-10-12-07 | size progression | 1 | 12 | 795 | 237 | 558 | 70% |
| CA-2026-10-12-05 | size progression | 1 | 10 | 637 | 197 | 440 | 69% |
| CA-2026-10-12-06 | tool family | 1 | 10 | 524 | 95 | 429 | 82% |
| CA-2026-10-12-14 | size progression | 2 | 10 | 572 | 164 | 408 | 71% |
| CA-2026-10-12-24 | size progression | 3 | 12 | 561 | 155 | 406 | 72% |
| CA-2026-10-12-15 | size progression | 2 | 12 | 577 | 177 | 400 | 69% |
| CA-2026-10-12-22 | tool family | 3 | 10 | 452 | 63 | 389 | 86% |
| CA-2026-10-12-08 | allergen clean-down | 1 | 12 | 481 | 125 | 356 | 74% |
| CA-2026-10-12-23 | size progression | 3 | 12 | 508 | 160 | 348 | 68% |
| CA-2026-10-12-13 | colour sequence | 2 | 10 | 499 | 157 | 342 | 68% |
| CA-2026-10-12-19 | allergen clean-down | 3 | 8 | 359 | 17 | 342 | 95% |
| CA-2026-10-12-21 | size progression | 3 | 10 | 435 | 126 | 309 | 71% |
Across all 24 instances the naive order costs 9,747 changeover minutes and the best order we found costs 2,756, a saving of 6,991 minutes (72%). "Best found" means best our search found, not proven optimal. A different solver may find better.
Saving by rule family4 rule families in this pack
Summed across the instances in each family, this pack only.
| Rule family | Instances | Naive minutes | Best found | Saved | Saved % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| allergen clean-down | 2 | 840 | 142 | 698 | 83% |
| colour sequence | 4 | 1,344 | 488 | 856 | 64% |
| size progression | 11 | 5,359 | 1,729 | 3,630 | 68% |
| tool family | 7 | 2,204 | 397 | 1,807 | 82% |
What you get
- One file a week24 instances: 1 machine x 6 jobs, 1 machine x 8 jobs, 1 machine x 10 jobs, 1 machine x 12 jobs and on up to 3 machines x 12 jobs, spread over four rule families. Each file holds exactly 24 instances, so not every machine, job and rule-family combination appears in every file.
- Eleven columnsInstance id, pack date, rule family, machines, jobs, naive minutes, best-found minutes, minutes saved, saved %, the busiest machine's minutes (how long the most-loaded machine runs, so you can see the bottleneck), and the sequence to run per machine. The free sample on this page leaves out the sequence column; the sequence column is the one you pay for.
- The matrix behind every rowA JSON twin of the file carries each instance's job labels, the full changeover-minutes matrix, the naive order and the best order, so you can re-check the arithmetic.
- The free sample is this week's file without the sequence columnEvery shape and every saving is public. The order to run is what you pay for.
Limits, plainly. The instances are generated, not measured. The shapes are bounded: at most 3 machines and 12 jobs. The minutes are synthetic. Best found is not proven optimal. Nothing is built for your factory: you match a shape and take its order as a starting point, then check it on your own minutes. If your shop has more machines, more jobs, or changeover times that depend on more than the job before, this file does not fit.
Newest pack dated 12 Oct 2026. If the next weekly pack does not get built, this page says so instead of showing the old one as new.
See the file before you pay
You do not have to take our word for what is in the file. Here are 24 rows of the real thing, carrying all 10 of its columns, straight out of this week's pack. The minutes are solver-made, like every figure here; these are the real pack rows, not a tidied demo.
- Open the 24 rows as a CSVA plain spreadsheet file. It saves to your machine rather than painting itself into a browser tab, and it opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
- The same 24 rows as JSONThe same rows again, laid out for reading with code.
What arrives after you pay: After you pay, Stripe sends you to a page carrying your own payment reference. That week's file appears at that address, and a new one each week for as long as the subscription runs. A week we could not build says so rather than repeating the last one. Nobody emails you.
What you would be paying for: $49 a month buys one file a week with 24 already-solved shop shapes. Each has 1, 2 or 3 machines; 6, 8, 10 or 12 jobs; and one changeover rule family. You get a table of changeover minutes, the obvious job order, the best order our solver found, minutes saved, and the job order on each machine. Nothing in it is measured from a real factory: every figure is generated by our solver from a starting value tied to the date. Billed monthly. Cancel at month end by email. No account. After you pay, Stripe sends you to a page carrying your own payment reference. That week's file appears at that address, and a new one each week for as long as the subscription runs. A week we could not build says so rather than repeating the last one. Nobody emails you.
These 24 rows are a slice of the file, not the whole of it. What we cannot show you here is how far back it goes: the weekly file. Each week's file is posted at the address Stripe shows you after payment, one new file per week while the subscription runs; keep a copy of any file you want to keep, because we do not promise to hold past weeks for you.
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$49 a month buys one file a week with 24 already-solved shop shapes. Each has 1, 2 or 3 machines; 6, 8, 10 or 12 jobs; and one changeover rule family. You get a table of changeover minutes, the obvious job order, the best order our solver found, minutes saved, and the job order on each machine. Nothing in it is measured from a real factory: every figure is generated by our solver from a starting value tied to the date. Billed monthly. Cancel at month end by email. No account. After you pay, Stripe sends you to a page carrying your own payment reference. That week's file appears at that address, and a new one each week for as long as the subscription runs. A week we could not build says so rather than repeating the last one. Nobody emails you.
Rather ask first? Email operations@ustechautomations.com. We tell you the shapes and the savings before you pay.