Method for producing a connecting web with a reduced thickness while cutting a workpiece part from a plate-shaped workpiece, and corresponding control program product

A method for producing at least one connecting web with a reduced thickness while cutting a workpiece part from a plate-shaped workpiece with the cut workpiece part remaining attached to a remaining grid of the workpiece by the connecting web, the method comprising:

• producing the at least one connecting web in the workpiece prior to cutting the workpiece part;
• squeezing the connecting web at least on a web section adjoining the workpiece part still to be cut, in a thickness direction of the workpiece, to set back the squeezed connecting web relative to at least one of two plate sides of the workpiece in a direction of a workpiece center, causing a workpiece edge formed by the set-back of the squeezed connecting web to form an edge of the workpiece part still to be cut;
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• cutting a separating gap corresponding to a contour of the workpiece part and being interrupted along the edge formed by the set-back of the squeezed connecting web, into the workpiece, causing the workpiece part to remain attached to the remaining grid of the workpiece by the squeezed connecting web.