MAXIEM abrasive waterjets have the power to revolutionize your machining process. They do also grant you the flexibility to serve a variety of industries and turn previously outsourced cutting processes into in-house profit generators. From medical to energy to defense and everything in between, MAXIEM helps you define what's possible in manufacturing.

Typical Waterjet Users & Applications

Aerospace

Aerospace manufacturing is a high technology industry that produces aircraft, guided missiles, space vehicles, aircraft engines, propulsion units, and related parts. Most aerospace part production is contracted to smaller, independent job shop facilities. Some examples of aerospace parts cut on a MAXIEM waterjet technology include: custom control panels, structural components for special purpose aircraft, struts, brake components, rubber gaskets, and many other parts.

Architecture

Job shops supporting architectural firms transform creative designs into functional artwork or installations. Many job shops in this industry use their MAXIEM to cut architectural trim, decorative grills, custom lighting custom vinyl, stone, marble, signage, and other interior design work. Waterjet cut materials end up in restaurants, retail space, museums, and commercial buildings.

Education

Many universities and technical colleges outfit their labs or R&D facilities with a MAXIEM system to offer their students the experience of waterjet technology. The MAXIEM JetCutting Center enables students to learn practical applications without a prerequisite in G-code programming. This advantage allows academics to devote more time in teaching their students core design and engineering skills for career enhancement. With a MAXIEM as a shop tool, students develop innovative solutions with waterjet capabilities in mind.

Energy

This sector includes all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution. Companies that design and manufacture natural gas equipment and fabricate heat exchangers are common end users of a MAXIEM JetCutting Center. High-volume fabrication shops benefit from utilizing abrasive waterjet technology since they can produce quality parts without heat-affected zones, usually an industry requirement.

Food Processing

Food processing equipment and material handling manufacturers construct mechanical methods and techniques to transform raw ingredients into food or medicine for human consumption according to industry standards. MAXIEM is used in areas of manufacturing components (primarily from stainless steel, aluminum, and plastic) for food processing lines, agricultural processing equipment, material handling conveyors, guards, enclosures, food handling and packaging equipment, and custom pharmaceutical processing equipment.

Government

MAXIEM provides the government with the best technology solutions in precision abrasive waterjet systems. Job shops, OEMs, fabricators, defense contractors, and educational institutions have chosen MAXIEM to meet their abrasive waterjet machining needs.

Medical

Many areas of the medical industry operate a MAXIEM to develop items such as medical devices for patients, diagnosis, therapy, surgery, and prosthetics. Examples of MAXIEM application in this industry include: blanking out surgical or dental instruments from special steel alloys; cutting artificial limb components from carbon fiber composites; manufacturing carbon braces and orthopedic shoes, and other products.

Transportation

This field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Modes of transportation can include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. Some of our MAXIEM customers produce automotive components and brackets for the commercial trucking industry. We also have job shops and fabricators who produce various customized components with their MAXIEM for farming equipment, robotic equipment, and airplane platforms. After adding MAXIEM technology to their shop, these businesses were able to eliminate the costly outsourcing of cutting projects.