Abstract: A material cutting line system including a cutting table, a material cutter positioned on the table and a control system for controlling the material cutting line such that sheets of material are cut into a plurality of individual workpieces, the control system including a machine readable medium having computer readable instructions thereon for defining a plurality of runs, wherein each run is optimized to minimize the number of sheets of material required to be cut to produce the plurality of individual workpieces, thereby minimizing the amount of resulting waste material from the sheets; identifying the amount of waste material from each sheet to determine the lowest yielding sheets from the plurality of runs; and, grouping the plurality of lowest yielding sheets to form an exception run.