Pure waterjet

AXIOME designs single or multiple robot cutting solutions for pure water jet cutting in order to meet the needs of its customers in different sectors such as:

• Automotive 
• Insulation cutting
• Food industry

The principle of robotic water jet cutting consists in projecting water at a very high speed: 600 to 900 metres / second, i.e. 2 to 3 times the speed of sound. The water, via an Ultra High Pressure pump, from 2,000 to 4,000 bars is then directed to an accumulator and propelled through a nozzle with a diameter of 0.10 to 0.40 mm.

This process is used on thin soft materials:

• Plastics
• Carpets
• Foam
• Soundproofing materials
• Rubber
• Composites
• Combination of textile and NFPP

The number of cutting heads, the pressure and flow rate of each nozzle and the robot tip are adapted to the materials and parts to be cut.

Abrasive waterjet

The principle of cutting and/or routing by water jet loaded with abrasive consists in spraying abrasive at high speed on the material to be cut.
The water is compressed from 2000 to 4000 bar and used to propel the abrasive through a specific cutting head with a mixing chamber. The abrasive waterjet will cut the hardest materials without thermal stress in the cut: 

• Steel
• Titanium
• Aluminium
• Marble
• Glass
• Composites materials (carbon and kevlar fiber…)

The complete abrasive cutting system includes:

• An abrasive storage hopper
• An abrasive dosing system
• A pipe for transporting the abrasive to the head
• A special abrasive head comprising a nozzle and a mixing chamber operating by the Ventur effect
• A tungsten carbide focusing gun