Homag Gmbh

Homag Holzbearbeitungssysteme Gmbh

Wolfgang Knorr

Manuel Friebolin

Joachim Graf

Markus Kostenbader

Stephen Winney

The invention relates to a processing machine () or method for processing substantially plate-shaped work pieces (W), preferably made at least partially from wood, wood materials, composite materials or plastics, wherein the processing machine () has a processing device () for processing a work piece (W) in a processing direction (R), an optical detection device (), an evaluation unit and a control device (), wherein: the optical detection device () is designed and configured in such a way that it can optically detect front and rear (in relation to the processing direction ()) end sections (Q, Q) of a work piece (W) to be processed, and it provides the evaluation unit with corresponding detection results; the evaluation unit is designed in such a way that it assesses, based on the detection results, whether a coating (B) is present on the front and/or rear end section (Q, Q) of the work piece (W) to be processed, and provides the control device () with corresponding assessment results; and the control device is designed in such a way that it controls the further processing of the work piece (W) to be processed via the processing device () on the basis of the assessment results.

Processing machine and method for processing work pieces

The invention relates to a device () for machining a workpiece () which preferably consist at least in sections of wood, wood material or synthetic material and/or for coating the workpiece () with a coating material (), comprising: a machining device () for machining the workpiece (), and a conveyor () for affecting a relative movement between the workpiece () and the machining device (), a controller for controlling the conveyor () and the machining device (), characterized in that the device () further has at least one workpiece measuring device () which is configured to measure at least one property of the workpiece (), in particular a property of a surface (') of the workpiece () to be machined or to be coated.

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Hirrlingen, Germany

Wolfgang Knorr