If you’re in an industry using water jet cutting machines you know how important proper machine maintenance is. You know that up-time is crucial to productivity and profitability and how devastating downtime can be. This is especially true with water jet cutters using garnet abrasives.
There are a variety of different products and applications that are a great fit for use with water jet cutting machines. However, not all products and applications can be treated the same way. Different water jet configurations are often needed to get the best cutting results with efficiency and speed while avoiding damage to the product. Different factors often involved include pump horsepower, water pressure, cutting head type and orifice size, and/or whether it is best to use abrasive or water only. The bottom line is it is imperative to find a water jet cutting system that fits your product and/or application.
There’s no getting around it, operating a water jet cutting system requires a large amount of water. If you’re using an abrasive water jet system, you’re mixing water and abrasive – a process that produces a wastewater by-product. Disposal of these by-products raises environmental concerns by many water jet system users – but what can you do about it? Turns out, you can do quite a bit to mitigate these concerns.
Water jet cutting systems are made to cut through nearly every imaginable surface, but not all systems are alike. Different materials require specific water jet cutting systems. There are a lot of factors that determine what type of water jet cutting system to use: Material thickness, strength, whether or not the material is layered, how intricate the design needs to be, and more. Cutting something relatively soft, like foam or rubber, is a totally different process than cutting metal or stone.
If you’re in the market for a new or used water jet cutting system, then we don’t have to tell you how expensive these machines are. Water jet cutting systems are complex machines with high powered pumps, automated cutting heads, lots of moving parts, and optional add-ons – all of which contribute to the expensive nature of the machines.
Water jet cutters are extremely popular in a variety of industrial applications. They are used in industries ranging from food processing to steel production. However, depending on your product and application, a particular type of water jet cutter is often a better solution than the other. There are two main types of cutters – standard water jet cutters (water only) and abrasive water jet cutters (these use water with a mixed in abrasive). But how do you know when you need an abrasive water jet cutter? What types of products are best for this type of machine?
Behind every great water jet cutting machine is a high-pressure pump. The pump is the heart of your machine – creating a high-pressure environment that gives life to your cutting head. If you don’t have the right pump, you won’t get the performance you expect. If your pump isn’t reliable, you’ll experience increased maintenance costs and down-time – something that is untenable and unacceptable, especially in larger industrial applications.
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