When first sizing components, two factors are front and center: accuracy and efficiency. Since material sizing inconsistencies can quickly compound each other when brought together in a product, it's critical for all materials to be sized consistently and accurately. It’s also important to minimize waste and maximize material. To find the best balance between these two, it is essential to have the capacity to program patterns and cut the panels with near perfect accuracy.

Before a single panel is cut, the engineering department runs a project parts list through the panel optimization software. This program plots the optimal pattern for each panel based on a number of factors including: minimizing waste, the cost of the material, the cost of the labor and the time on the saws. The pattern is fed to the Beam Saw.

Our saws are capable of sizing high volumes of material to exacting tolerances with the finest of chip free cuts. Special material handling systems at the beam saw allow a single operator to easily handle as many as six 3/4" thick sheets at one time.

At the time each panel is being cut, a label printer that is synched in with the controller generates labels for every component produced. These labels identify the piece and contain a barcode that direct all CNC machines to extract programming from the database for each further step in the process.