PCB De-paneling is designed to delivery accurate PCB outlines, with all parts and joints intact, at rates of output that match or exceed the SMT lines they follow – more than ever they have become an inline rather than batch processes, fully integrated to systems that include robotic handling and full systems integration to MES and other shop floor systems. For many years the cutting systems were all Mechanical and at some level exerted bending loads, stress, on the PCB. Stress is problematic if it is uncontrolled resulting in immediate failures or worse, failures in the fieled that present at a later date.