IGEMS Training Center Update

If you haven't had a chance to take a look at our IGEMS Training Center yet you might want to. We are continually making updates as a part of our commitment to helping you succeed. It is loaded with useful videos, guides, manuals and free trial software.

WARDJet is pleased to announce that their website is now available in multiple languages.

Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese and Chinese.

IGEMS Training Center

We always want to make running a waterjet as easy as possible.  Today we added the IGEMS Training Center to our web site, to make it easy for anyone to learn more about the capabilities of the software, as well as try it out.   There are 25 videos there to explore as of today.  http://www.wardjet.com/igems-training-center.html   If you want to download a version to play with, go to the download section of the web – bottom right hand side.  http://www.wardjet.com/downloads.html 

Rich

Milling an 18' 4" Cross Beam

Yes we build machines a lot larger than the standard units seen on the web.  Here is a cross beam that will be 18 feet 4 inches long with 6 cutting heads that can all be positioned independently.  This will be particularly important with automatic nesting of the 6 heads.

Rich

WARDJet New Website

You may have noticed our new web site, which if you are looking at the blog, you will be viewing.  This site has been 6 months in the making with a great team of people at WARDJet which will allow WARDJet to expand and offer infinitely more technology than we could before.  High definition videos can play at high speed, a full interactive on-line store will be launched soon, and there are many more things behind the scenes that all work to enhance our capabilities.  Keep dropping in and visiting the site and you will see for yourself.  Thanks for being interested and being a part of our team.

Rich

CNC Milling

May 2010 be a wonderful year for us all.  I am excited and looking forward to the next 12 months as WARDJet get an opportunity to expand and implement our technology developed over the years. 

We are off to a great start to 2010 with new orders over the Christmas - New Year’s period.  We also figured out how to map compensation tables into our large CNC milling machine using our metrology equipment.  This is great as our waterjets will be even more mechanically excellent when it comes to positional and repeatability tolerances.  As a result, mapping compensation built into our controllers, although always there, becomes less critical and all around our machines reach even tighter tolerances.

Rich

Waterjet Water Quality Questions

An important question that our technical support team gets asked quite often:

Q:   What are some of the factors to consider when testing the water quality for a waterjet system?

A:  There are three main things to consider in the quality of the water that your waterjet cutting system uses. The Ph level, the Silica content, and the Total Dissolved Solids(TDS). The Ph level should be between 6 to 8 ideally. We also consider a TDS count of less than 100ppm to be good. You should always have your water tested...

If you do need some sort of filtration system to improve your water quality some of the common remedies are deionizing tanks, reverse osmosis, and water softeners. Typically a water softener is enough for most applications.

Waterjet Talks at the AMRC

 Yesterday and today have been fantastic. Thanks to everyone who came to the open house at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Centre with Boeing to learn more about WARDJet, Wightman Stewart and the waterjet cutting systems that we build. It has been an absolute pleasure introducing our people, our company and our technology to you. I hope to make it back to England very soon. 

-Rich

WARDJet Waterjet at the University of Sheffield AMRC with Boeing

We're very excited to have one of our ZX-513 Waterjet Cutting Machines on the floor of the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Centre with Boeing. If you are in the area, feel free to stop by during our open house with Wightman Stewart (our UK distributor) Tuesday October 20th or Wednesday October 21st. You will be able to see the machine in action cutting parts, and I will also be giving a presentation twice daily featuring live video with our production facility in Tallmadge OH - where you will be able to see 5-Axis parts being cut with our Psy-Winder 5-Axis Waterjet Cutting Head. It will be fun to say the least!
-Rich

Cutting of Angle Iron with Waterjet

We love cutting anything that is not flat on our waterjet machines.  Here we are trimming heavy angle iron lengths that are far too long for the ZX-813 unit.  We simply support the angle, cut the first section, then move the angle along, index the position of the angle and cut the next section.  Piece of cake.

Rich