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Abstract

A stone cutting and finishing management system for managing an inventory of stone slabs is disclosed herein. The system includes a data management system with a database, an image station for creating a visual image of a slab from an inventory, each slab provided with a slab identifier, wherein the image and the identifier are stored in the database, a slab selection station with a visual display, a customer parts data file in the database including parts outline data, parts cutting data, and parts finishing data, a parts nesting system for displaying the parts outline data electronically on a selected slab image, a parts tagging station for projecting part outlines on the slab, wherein a part tag is attached to each part outline on the slab, a parts cutting station for cutting the parts from the slab in accordance with the data in the database, and a parts finishing station for providing a finishing process to the cut parts in accordance with the data in the database.

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