Customised cutting

As exclusive UK agent for WARDJet, Wightman Stewart reports a high degree of interest in customised waterjet cutting systems.

One of the latest developments is a customised JX-7032 pure water waterjet cutting table which has a 7 by 3.2m cutting envelope and four independent cutting heads. It also has an integrated shuttle table handling system with two 7m shuttle tables at the front and rear of the machine.

The cutting table has an unlimited number of configurations based on the sheet width variation. This allows the user to easily manoeuvre the materials into any position. For continuous, high speed cutting at up to 50in/sec, four cutting heads are included that can be positioned anywhere along the cutting gantry.

Other recent customised solutions include self loading tables; the retrofit of plasma cutters alongside waterjet cutting heads, 4th axis rotary chuck for specialist tubing and additional drilling, tapping heads and height sensor.