Patent ID: 8109391

Claim:
A method of expeditiously and economically forming and sorting at least two different sets of components from at least one workpiece disposed on a worktable of a machine, each of said sets of components being adapted to be assembled to form a distinct product, comprising: executing a CNC machine program functional to provide a cut pattern on said workpiece, nesting said components on said workpiece in a disposition maximizing a yield thereof; producing a graphic plan replicating the cut pattern of said workpiece, depicting the profiles of said plurality of components, each provided with an identifier denoting the location of the component on said workpiece; producing at least one of a plurality of labels, each bearing a distinguishable one of said location indicators and a distinctive, readily visable identifier denoting a different one of said sets of components; manually applying each of said labels on a nested component of said workpiece corresponding to the profile of said component in said plan, guided by said plan and the applicable location identifier; removing each of said nested components provided with labels bearing the same readily, visable identifier; and grouping all removed components provided with labels bearing the same identifier, together.