Automated plant for cutting and operating flat slabs and relative procedure

An automated plant (10) for cutting and operating flat slabs made from ceramic or the like for typically but not exclusively manufacturing tiles intended for use as coating elements at both civil and industrial levels and for both indoor and outdoor environments, characterized in that it comprises a first macro-area (12) defining an area suitable for storing products consisting of semi-finished slabs or mother-slabs and comprising an automated/robotized store wherein original or semi-finished slabs coming from ceramic furnaces and featuring a natural or polished surface finishing are stored, a second macro-area (14) defining an area for storing auxiliary packing materials or consumable materials for operations or processes on said slabs and comprising a further store (14′) for storing means for packing sub-slabs or daughter-slabs obtained from the mother-slabs and defined by crates, boxes, or racks (or, even, stands and layer pads), a third macro-area (16) defining a production area for processing, packaging, and packing daughter-slabs or sub-formats of slabs obtained from mother-slabs coming from the first macro-area (12) and comprising at least one production line (17) for cutting, cleaning, checking, and unloading daughter-slabs obtained from the mother-slabs in boxes or on stands or crates, a fourth macro-area (18) defining an area that comprises a finished product store for letting the products coming from the third macro-area (16) pass through/temporarily accumulate, said plant also comprising automatic handling means for slaving and handling materials and semi-finished and finished products between said macro-areas and internally thereto, and a central control unit for programming, managing, and controlling the operation of said macro-areas and the interaction therebetween.