Abstract: A method and device useful for material removal from large plate-shaped materials, for example machining and polishing of glass and stone. The invention includes a workstation having arrays of roller and suction cups which are selectively used to transport and secure a plate positioned in the workstation. An imaging device collects data on a true position of the plate in the workstation and compares the real position to a design or ideal position to determine a difference of position. An electronic control system calculates the difference and modifies the processing program to adjust for the difference eliminating the need to further reposition the plate to the ideal design position for processing.

Abstract: A method and device useful for material removal from large plate-shaped materials, for example machining and polishing of glass and stone. The invention includes a workstation having arrays of roller and suction cups which are selectively used to transport and secure a plate positioned in the workstation. An imaging device collects data on a true position of the plate in the workstation and compares the real position to a design or ideal position to determine a difference of position. An electronic control system calculates the difference and modifies the processing program to adjust for the difference eliminating the need to further reposition the plate to the ideal design position for processing.

Abstract: A numeric-control work-centre for machining plates of glass, marble and natural or synthetic stones comprises: a bench, defining a work surface, designed to receive the plates to be machined; two fixed side members, set at the two sides of the work surface; an overhead cross-member, guided over the two side members like an overhead-travelling crane, in a horizontal direction Y orthogonal to the horizontal direction X of the cross-member; and a carriage, which is mobile in the aforesaid horizontal direction X on the cross-member, present in which are two work heads carried by a slide, mounted on the carriage so that, during machining of the edge of a plate, consecutive passing of the first tool and of the second tool in any order is obtained with one and the same movement of the carriage and/or of the cross-member of the work-centre.

Abstract: A numeric-control work-centre for machining plates of glass, marble and natural or synthetic stones comprises: a bench, defining a work surface, designed to receive the plates to be machined; two fixed side members, set at the two sides of the work surface; an overhead cross-member, guided over the two side members like an overhead-travelling crane, in a horizontal direction Y orthogonal to the horizontal direction X of the cross-member; and a carriage, which is mobile in the aforesaid horizontal direction X on the cross-member, present in which are two work heads carried by a slide, mounted on the carriage so that, during machining of the edge of a plate, consecutive passing of the first tool and of the second tool in any order is obtained with one and the same movement of the carriage and/or of the cross-member of the work-centre.