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Top 5 "Secrets" to Get More Done with Abrasive Waterjets
If you're like many of our waterjet owners & operators, you'll be surprised at the productivity these machines can add to your shop's workflow and capabilities. That's because many manufacturers who've already integrated abrasive waterjet may not take full advantage of what the technology can offer, including these five best-kept secrets of production success. Read
How to Choose the OMAX Abrasive Waterjet That's Right for Your Shop
Abrasive waterjets offer a fast, flexible, and accurate method for cutting a wide range of materials. As the world’s largest single-source provider of waterjet cutting systems, OMAX designs and manufactures a comprehensive selection of waterjets from which users can choose to suit their specific production needs. Read
A Safe Waterjet Is a Productive Waterjet
Abrasive waterjets are safer than ever, but they still require proper safety precautions to be followed to ensure a safe and productive work environment. To keep operators and machines healthy and productive, OMAX offers safety guidelines related to each. While most shops may be familiar with these concepts, the guidelines must be applied consistently and reinforced routinely. Read
OMAX Helps Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Lighten Up
What other cutting technology can move from inches-thick steel and aluminum to plastic, foam rubber and carbon fiber – without changing a cutting head? Only waterjets can master all these materials and so many more. As a result, abrasive waterjets are essential technology for Electric Vehicles companies. Read
Accelerate Automotive Production With Abrasive Waterjets
Because abrasive waterjets can cut just about anything – including materials and thicknesses that other methods can't handle – our hardware enables shops to save time, eliminate outsourcing, reduce production costs, bring innovations to market and help students learn work-ready skills. Read
Maximize Productivity with OMAX Predictive and Preventive Monitoring
Production success depends on more than careful material selection, part programming and setup. OMAX IntelliMAX software makes every minute count, with real-time monitoring of equipment performance whether you're on or off the shop floor. Integrated software tools predict system behavior and video monitoring keeps on eye on actual performance. Read
Plan New Equipment Investments to Maximize Your Tax Deductions
When you're ready to add a new machine to your shop, an abrasive waterjet can expand your cutting capabilities and reduce your need to outsource processes. Along with the flexibility that an abrasive waterjet adds to your workflow, it also offers you a tax break. Read
Are You Using the Latest Software?
OMAX is constantly coming out with new software. You should take advantage of the new features improving the performance of the machine and productivity in programming.New versions are released once or twice a year. If your software is more than six months old, it’s worthwhile to check for a new version. Read
Why Abrasive Waterjet Software Matters
Other cutting technologies use solid-material tools with fixed shapes, but abrasive waterjets use liquid sandpaper to cut solids, and that liquid constantly changes shape in response to part geometry, material thickness and density. The right software is critical to optimize the cut. Read
The Gem That Makes the Cut: Garnet's Role in Abrasive Waterjet
Waterjets require two specific properties from their abrasives: hardness and high specific gravity. Because these machines essentially perform high-speed erosion, the cutting stream accelerates abrasive particles but the grains themselves make the actual cut. Read
