A"Moving Gantry" CNC router, when made correctly, is particularly well suited for panel and sheet processing applications. Here, the table stays fixed, while the bridge moves over its surface. This design saves valuable floor space, keeps the price down, allows for useful options (such as tool changers and multispindle drilling heads) and offers incredible throughput and productivity. This design is not normally as well suited to the heaviest cutting and highest material removal rates because moving steel frames, on any CNC router design, have a difficult time absorbing many of the additional cutting vibrations created by the heavier applications. However, if it is built and designed correctly, like our Pro series, it can easily break down full sheets of 1-1/2" thick plywood, laminates, veneers, or 1/4" thick aluminum jig plate, at super fast feed rates, under continuous duty conditions and handle heavier applications on a limited or multi-pass basis. Check out the 20' x 100' bed mills used in the aircraft industry and you will find the same Hardened and Ground Precision Helical G-SERIES. Rack, Dual-Drive system used exclusively on the Panel Pro moving gantry router.Dual-Drive costs us more, but it will not twist under a load the way a singlecenter-mounted ballscrew or cantilevered design does.Panel processors and cabinetmakers love the flexibility and production capabilitiesthat the Pro Series design offers. Sign makers and plastics fabricators typically likemoving gantry machines because of the lower initial purchase price, while solidsurface and aluminum sheet fabricators like the largetable-size-to-cost ratio. Onsrud engineers many of our frame components to be used cross-platform inour 3, 4, or 5-Axis Models. By utilizing standard frames, parts and electronics,Onsrud was able to leverage the economies of scale present in our 3 and 4-Axismachine sales, and dramatically lower the overall price point of our 5-Axis models,without compromising performance or value. For example, almost all of the parts on a 5-Axis Extreme Duty Series are also used on the 3 or 4-Axis Extreme Duty Series; and,many of the parts on the 5-Axis Pro Series are also used on the 3 or 4-Axis Pro Series. Of course the heads are different and the frames are taller and wider on the 5-Axismachines, but the machine uses many of the same standard components, with thesame off the shelf, readily available, non-proprietary, and proven parts. *Call today for a quote