I have been using CNC Router Tables since 1993 in the display/store fixtures industry. The first table was an AXYZ/CamTech 4x8 table that used a Porter Cable router for a spindle and had no vacuum bed – we mostly used double-sided tape.
The second CNC I used at another company was one of the first generation AXYZ made 60x120 table with two Perske VFD spindles and an air powered drill. Not equipped with a vacuum table, we still relied on double-sided table or quick release clamps.
The third CNC was another AXYZ CNC using a Perske VFD spindle on a vacuum equipped 50x200 inch bed. I had used several other AXYZ CNCs since then.
Another company I went to had two AXYZ CNCs with 66x126 vacuum tables that I managed and made drawings and also continued to programme for. Both had VFD spindles and later we upgraded one of the tables to add a Vision System camera for registration of printed sheets for cutting out printed parts. Also at that time, we acquired a Kongsberg XP Finishing CNC with a 65x125 inch vacuum bed that was equipped with a 50k Watercooled Spindle, a rigid knife, oscillating knife, vinyl knife and pen plotter, heavy-duty crease wheel. This table was also equipped with a sheet feeder to automatically load and offload sheets but this was not able to be used with the Router Spindle. The Kongsberg also had a Vision Registration ICut Camera. During my eight years with that company, I started using Vectric VCarve Pro which was an amazing software upgrade to the to the very limited and proprietary toolpath programme that was used by AXYZ CNCs.
In the last 3.5+ years, I joined my former boss to startup a manufacturing division at another company where we purchased a MultiCAM CNC equipped with an automatic tool changer and eight tool holder and using Enroute programming software. We later acquired an AXYZ with automatic tool changer. Both tables are are quipped with a Vision Registration Camera for aligning printed sheet for cutting printed parts.