LaserCoil Technologies LLC’s Virtual Controller can run the company’s coil-fed laser blanking systems virtually using true production rates and enabling the optimization of nesting patterns for maximum material utilization or cycle times, as well as detecting any programming issues prior to running a program using actual material. An enhancement to the company’s CAM software, it only takes a matter of minutes to create a program and run it on the controller. Running this program through the controller identifies any programming errors that would cause warnings or faults during production, as well as proving cycle time for that particular program.