Waterjet Designed for Shops with Limited Floor Space
The 5555 JetMachining center from Omax is a cantilever-style abrasive waterjet machine suited for facilities with limited floor space.
The 5555 JetMachining center from Omax is a cantilever-style abrasive waterjet designed for facilities with limited floor space. The waterjet can cut complex parts as large as 1.2 × 1.2 m from a variety of materials and thicknesses, including advanced composites, exotic alloys, traditional metals and rubber.
The waterjet is equipped with the company’s Intelli-Max software suite for Windows, which is designed to calculate the velocity of a tool path at over 2,000 points per inch. The program supports as many as six axes of coordinated motion for processing 3D components. A Tilt-A-Jet cutting head accessory provides advanced automated taper removal. According to the company, the cutting head achieves virtually zero taper without reducing cutting speed. It precisely cuts high-tolerance parts with square, taper-free edges, including interlocking pieces and dovetail fittings, the company says. Through the control software, the head automatically calculates and adjusts the angle of the nozzle to accurately remove the natural taper from the finished part by transferring it to the scrap part of the material.
Related Content
-
Choosing Your Carbide Grade: A Guide
Without an international standard for designating carbide grades or application ranges, users must rely on relative judgments and background knowledge for success.
-
A New Milling 101: Milling Forces and Formulas
The forces involved in the milling process can be quantified, thus allowing mathematical tools to predict and control these forces. Formulas for calculating these forces accurately make it possible to optimize the quality of milling operations.
-
How to Start a Swiss Machining Department From Scratch
When Shamrock Precision needed to cut production time of its bread-and-butter parts in half, it turned to a new type of machine tool and a new CAM system. Here’s how the company succeeded, despite the newness of it all.
