The present invention relates to a device for simultaneous three-sided trimming of products in a plurality of cutting stations, comprising: a common upper knife carrier operable in a stroke motion, wherein at least blades for front edge trimming and for top and bottom trimming of the products are mounted on the upper knife carrier; a first drive for driving the upper knife carrier and a conveyor device, wherein the conveyor device has top-related and bottom-related pairs of conveyor belts for conveying the products through the cutting stations of the device; at least one second drive for driving the conveyor device, wherein the drives used for a stroke device and the conveyor device are each implemented as self-contained mutually independent drives, and connected to one another by control devices. The device has another collecting conveyor device downstream of the conveyor device for conveying the products through the cutting stations in a conveying direction of the products, wherein the collecting conveyor device has a self-contained and independent drive, the drive is connected with the other independent drives of the device through control devices.