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Techni Waterjet Machines Overview

Hello, my name is Glenn Langdon I'm one of the  directors of Techni Waterjet with my business   partner Darren Reukers, we started the business  back in 1989. Our focus was to design, develop,   engineering products that are really beneficial  to the waterjet industry. In this short video   you're going to see features that are standard on  our waterjet machine that really are beneficial   to you the customer to make sure that you  can cut successfully all day, every day. The advantages of the breakaway head  is that when you're cutting and,   if the material was to de-lodge and the  cutting head was to hit the material or a clamp   it could break the focus tube  or the material. It allows the   head when it hits to de-lodge and hit a limit and  then the machine goes into an emergency stop mode. A unique feature that Techni  offers is our Tech-Sense.   The Tech-Sense monitors the abrasive flow to  the cutting head. If we were to get a blockage   the tech sensor is activated, and it pauses  the machine from cutting. This allows the   operator to walk away from the machine and  feel confident that if the machine does stop,   you're not going to be cutting with pure  water only which could damage the material. Programmable abrasive feeder allows us to program   the abrasive feed rate for when cutting  high and low pressure, accurately. Water Raise/Lower is a function where we  raise the water up so we can cut underwater,   like submerged cutting. The benefits  of submerged cutting is basically it   suppresses the noise so it makes the water  jet process a lot quieter and also when   you're piercing holes it suppresses the mess  so therefore it is a lot cleaner as well. Our standard system comes with Remote Pendant  Control. This allows you to hold a pendant and   to be able to move the cutting head in the x y  and z axis. And also, if you have a PAC60 5 axis   head installed, we are also able to move the b  and c axis with this handheld pendant control.   This enables you to position the cutting head  anywhere on the cutting table with simple ease. Our goal at Techni has always been to keep all  of our engineering in-house. We have developed   our own software to control our system  and an elaborate nesting package as well. When designing our water jet system, it's  all about protecting the machine itself.   You'll notice that our water jet  machines have 360-degree bellows.   This is really important to keep the motion  system from getting abrasive dust and water   which will corrode or damage  the important motion system.  Techni Waterjet is always mindful to  ensure that the machine you purchase today   in 10 years’ time it is operating as  good as it is when it was brand new. Techni Waterjet's focus is always  about keeping things simple   our cutting table has slats that are  simply just lift in and lift out,   so when need to be replaced it's not  a big drama and it's not expensive. The water jet process can seem slow cutting  at times. Techni Waterjet has developed our   manager app which allows you to do lights out  cutting. This is a really important feature   where you have that job that may take many hours  to cut, our customers put the material on the   cutting table, start the process and then go home.  And then our app, if there is an issue, the app   will actually contact your phone and report to you  the problem: you can shut the machine down from   your mobile phone or report back to the machine  and resolve the issue and continue the cut. In 2009 Techni released the quantum  servo pump. The big advantages of the   servo technology: energy efficiency, quiet  when cutting, the ease of changing seals,   and now we've released the advanced  diagnostics, enables us to check the pressure,   the flow rate, the temperatures of  the pumps, anywhere in the world. In 2017, Techni took it upon ourselves to develop  our all-in-one Tech-Head diamond cutting head.   What this means is that the diamond is actually   assembled inside the cutting head  itself. The advantages of the Tech-Head   is the diamond is perfectly aligned with the wear  insert through to the focus tube gives you more   life out of the focus tube and a more consistent  stream when cutting and therefore a better cut. Techni offer two abrasive feed systems: a  500-kilo hopper which can take the 25 kilo   bags when loading or we have a two-ton hopper  which allows you to take a one ton bulk bag to   fill the hopper. The advantage of the 500-kilo  hopper is ease of loading. As you can see,   the hopper is at waist height so when you  have the 25-kilo bag of garnet it is easy   to hold the garnet on the edge, cut the  bag, and to load into the hopper. Some   abrasive hoppers are quite high, at chest height,  which makes it virtually impossible to physically   load the garnet into the hopper. This is a  strong advantage of our abrasive feed system. We offer a garnet removal  system to remove the garnet   from the tank after the cutting  process. This garnet will fall into   a bag which enables you to lift the bag out with  a forklift and then take the garnet to waste. Techni Waterjet is all about innovation. We  designed our PAC60 5-axis head to be the most   innovative product on the market today. Our PAC  can do continuous rotation. The way we achieve   this: we have the high-pressure water we have the  abrasive and the air flowing through the center of   the PAC unit. This allows us to do continuous  rotation and never have to stop and unwind. Drilling head option allows us to  pre-drill the pierce points before cutting.   The advantages of drilling the pierce points:  ensures that we do not delaminate the material   when cutting materials like carbon  fiber and other laminated materials. We have our Touch-Probe which will  come down, touch the material,   and set the standoff automatically. The  Touch-Probe can also be used to map the   sheet of material; it will measure the distance  and make adjustments to the height when cutting. In recent years, we have seen the waterjet process   become very popular in the stone industry. To  move with the times, Techni Waterjet developed   our Tech-Vision system that allows you to take an  image of the slab of material on the cutting table   so you can then bring your object over the  material to nest in the correct position and   to ensure that you can make the perfect  waterfall on the edge of your benchtop. Techni Waterjet also offer Twin Cutting Heads.  This allows our customers to cut the same part   operating two cutting heads which  helps you speed up production.