Patent ID: 8851958

Claim:
A method for simultaneous double-side material-removing processing of at least three workpieces, the method comprising: disposing the at least three workpieces in a working gap between a rotating upper working disk and a rotating lower working disk of a double-side processing apparatus, each workpiece lying in freely movable fashion in a respective opening of a guide cage; moving the at least three workpieces under pressure in the working gap using the guide cage; and upon attaining a preselected target thickness of the workpieces, initiating a deceleration process including reducing an angular velocity ω i (t) of a respective drive i of each of the upper working disk, the lower working disk and the guide cage to a standstill, the reducing being carried out such that ratios of the angular velocities ω i (t) with respect to one another as a function of time t deviate by no more than 10% from initial ratios of the angular velocities ω i (t) corresponding to when the preselected target thickness was attained.