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AssigneeFinn-Power International, Inc.
InventorMikko Lindstrom
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The present invention relates to a system and method therefor of sorting and unloading various pieces cut from sheet blanks which have different dimensions in a sheet metal fabricating environment. To achieve this end, prior to the production run, the various program routines whose operations for effecting the cutting of the sheet blanks are retrieved and the data relevant to the to be cut pieces are grouped and analyzed so that pieces of different dimensions cut in accordance with the different program routines are respectively allocated to the corresponding sorting addresses for unloading. Accordingly, different pieces with the same dimension cut from different program routines during the same production run are unloaded to the same location of the unloader area. Optimization of the unloading process and optimal utilization of the available loading space are thereby achieved.
In a production process involving a plurality of nested programs, each of said nested programs cutting pieces from at least one particular worksheet having a given dimension, the layout of the pieces to be cut from said particular worksheet by said each nested program being different from the respective layouts of pieces to be cut from other particular worksheets by the other nested programs, a method of denesting said plurality of programs, comprising the steps of:
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