“…Several methodologies and techniques were applied in modeling and optimizing the strip layout design. This includes: graph-based algorithms [10,11], such as, Petri net) [12], and Graph-theoretic methods [10][11][12][13][14][15], Knowledge-based systems [16,17], Singh and Sekhon (2006), [18,19] Genetic algorithm (GA) [20][21][22], and the Torque equilibrium methods [10,11,20,23].…”