Question. I have been using the optimiser for several months OK but today I got a worse waste result when I set some parameters to help decrease the waste as the manual suggested. Is my optimiser broken or unreliable?
Answer. The optimiser is OK. You cannot judge the optimiser by just one set of data. In the same way that the quality of a soccer team has to be judged over the season and not on one unexpected result you must judge the optimiser on its average results over a reasonable period of time - if you do this you will see that your Optimiser is working OK. The manual suggestions are based on benchmarks established over thousands of sets of data over many years. The optimising problem is so complex there will always be some sets of data that produce unexpected or less satisfactory results.
