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What Is the Difference Between a Table Saw and a Panel Beam Saw?
In smaller shops, most panel sizing is performed with smaller sliding or fixed table saws. However, for shops with an increased volume of pieces required in their operations, panel or beam saws are more suitable.

Table Saws

Table saws are categorized as fixed table saws and sliding table saws. Fixed table saws can be found in a number of sizes from small 8-inch hobby machines up to heavy-duty 14-inch industrial machines. They also range in power from 3HP to 10HP. Smaller ones operate on single-phase for home-based wood shops while the larger machines run on 3-phase electricity for industrial environments. Fixed table saws are typically used to cut solid wood or smaller composite panels. Some utilize a scoring saw for clean cuts when cutting panels. They generally include a tilting arbour to perform angle cutting between 45 and 90 degrees.

Sliding table saws are employed in small industrial production shops. Also, they are used for special custom cutting in a big industrial shop that also has a beam panel saw to accomplish most of their panel cutting. They tend to be very versatile having a tilting arbour in addition to a mitre fence for angle and mitre cutting, respectively. These sawing machines tend to be built with a scoring saw. The sliding table allows 5-foot or 10-foot (more prevalent) sheets to travel while supported on the sliding table. The sliding table allows the operator to more smoothly advance the sheet through the cutting saw. Sliding table saws range in power from about 5HP to 12HP. Although some have electronic setup assistance, a lot of them do not.

Popular makes of table saws include: Altendorf, Antec by Joway, Bauerle, Boss, Casadei, Casolin, Concord, Delta, EMA, Griggio, Holz-Her, Italcava, Lazzari, Magic, Martin, Ortza, Paoloni, Poitras, RGA Italtalcava, Robland, SCMI, Sicar, Stema, and Wadkin.

Panel / Beam Saws

A panel saw or beam saw is an industrial machine the makes linear cuts in pre-manufactured sheets or boards. These saws encompass a multitude of horizontal saws from manually operated to automatically controlled. Beam Saw Machine are used to cut wood-based materials such as for example plywood, particle board, medium density fiber (MDF), oriented strand board (OSB) and high density fiber (HDF) sheets.

Cabinet shops, furniture makers, fixture manufacturers, and several other companies use panel saws as one of the first steps within their production process to cut full-sized sheets of material into the smaller rectangular sizes needed to produce their products. Some beam saws are specially configured to cut plastic, phenolic and non-ferrous metal sheets aswell. Beam saws can be loaded manually from the out feed side of the device or automatically from a lift table guiding the machine. They can have an individual cutting line (single saw) or can have multiple cutting lines referred to as angular sizing systems or plants. Panel saws can cut single sheets as thin as 3mm or around stacks of sheets as high as 8 inches based on the configuration of the device.
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