FOCUS ON WATERJET CUTTING
The WARDJET A-Series waterjet cutting system.
material at any thickness on the same system provides unparalleled flexibility for owners. A waterjet can support almost any project that comes through the door, allowing owners to expand their business, take on more work and provide a quick return on investment,” commented waterjet specialist, Flow International.
Below is a selection of the latest new and innovative waterjet technologies and products for sheet metal manufacturers, in alphabetical order.
Innovation in focus
AAG( AXYZ Automation Group) offers abrasive waterjet cutting systems that include the X-Series waterjet with the APEX 60 five-axis cutting head, M-series and A-Series waterjets. Its water-only series systems are the H-series, L-series and J-series. The company’ s 105,000-square foot facility in Waterdown, ON, Canada, now houses its three brands( AXYZ, WARDJET and CNCSHOP) under one roof. Key attributes of the Apex-60 include five-axis cutting heads to offer of movement between 0 ° and 90 °. This enables users to control taper angle and create complex 3D designs
WARDJET showcased its A-Series waterjet cutting system at the EuroBLECH exhibition in Hanover, Germany, in October 2024. The WARDJET A-Series waterjet cutter is a versatile and compact machine that can cut through most materials, from titanium to concrete. It does this in a small, enclosed footprint, making it suitable for businesses with limited floor space. Despite its small size, the A-Series is very powerful and can be used to cut intricate designs or to create custom parts or prototypes.
ACCURL’ s five-axis MAX BP-C Series waterjet cutting system features a MAX 3D five-axis Bevel Cutting Head 2.0, new
Hypertherm Echion 50 waterjet pumps and an anti-collision system: Collision Protection 2.0. It is controlled by an ESA S660 series CNC control unit. The MAX 3D cutter head has five axes( three linear and two rotating). It has been designed for both pure 3D cut and 2D 1 / 2 cut( flat cut with bevel), without losing 2D( flat) cut functionality.
The ACCURL MAX-WJCNC waterjet cutting series is an addition to ACCURL’ s MAX- WJCNC waterjet cutting machine line. The ACCURL ® Go beyond is a five-axis waterjet cutter for three-dimensional cutting at angles from 0 ° to 90 °.
Multiple five-axis cutting heads for ACCURL waterjets.
ALLFI produces high-pressure components for waterjet cutting as well as high-pressure pumps, modular cutting head systems and robotic waterjet cells( in partnership with IDASA). The Quantum SPT™ Quantum NXT™( electric servo pump) incorporates the core“ direct servo” technology first used by NASA for the Space Shuttle programme by replacing obsolete hydraulic cylinders with new, compact, efficient and controllable servo linear actuators. Its DynaMAX and DaraMax are predictive waterjet pumps.
BFT GmbH offers energy-saving, highpressure pumps and components for waterjet cutting applications. It has showcased two high-pressure pumps in its EcoTron range – the 40.37 + and the 40.45 +. It also includes a Servotron, Vectron, Hypertron and Jetron range of high-pressure pumps. It now supplies to the U. S. market with an office in Merrillville, Indiana.
Luxembourg manufacturer CERATIZIT( part of the Plansee Group) has three distinct HyproJET product lines; the focusing tubes are designed for all modern waterjet cuttinghead systems and support automatic centring during mounting. In addition to its line of abrasive jet focusing tubes, it produces wear products out of variable carbide configurations( such as plungers for high-pressure pumps; splash discs; catcher cups; inlet guides; wear plates; restrictor shields and inlet tubes).
CMS Metal Technology offers a wide range of complete three- and fiveaxis waterjet cutting systems, pressure intensifiers and dry or wet deburring and satin finishing machines. Since the 90’ s, thanks to the acquisition of Tecnocut and continuous internal developments, it now boasts more than 1,500 installations worldwide. It launched its CMS Tecnocut Proline in 2021, a compact, sturdy single-block design waterjetcutting system that also features a pipecutting option.
Its new DDX EasyJet is a complete CMS suite that brings together several applications in one software to program machining processes quickly and easily. Other waterjetcutting models include the Tecnocut Aquatec and Tecnocut Waterspeedy s.
Its digital solutions include CMS Connect, an IoT platform that is integrated with the latest-generation CMS machines, and CMS Active, its operator HMI interface, as well as the Eye CMS console. Its JD5 five-axis cutting head offers infinite rotation( continuous rotation of the C-axis during consecutive cuts), designed to reduce the tolerance error of“ mirror”-cut parts to zero. To ensure that the cutting process is repeatable, CMS offers a TCP( Tool Centre Position) and focal distance laser measurement device on the five-axis head. CMS has also developed the Tecnocut e-pump, a new hybrid pressure intensifier. Other models include the Easypump and Jetpower Evo.
ConSus- ANT Stationary Cutting Solutions GmbH, a division of the ANT Group, has over 20 years of experience in mobile Water Abrasive Suspension( WAS) cutting. The central or decentralised processing of 80 % or more of the abrasive with ANT’ s Abrasive Recycling Unit( ARU) significantly reduces consumption costs, it told ISMR. A continuous suspension jet, it said, provides a“ more efficient cutting performance at lower pressure compared to conventional Water Abrasive Injection( WAIS) systems.”
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