Anti-collision system protects waterjet cutting head nozzles

Customers opting to have the new Water Jet Sweden collision protection system fitted to their water jet profilers will find that each cutting-head nozzle is now surrounded by a 60 mm diameter anti-collision protection zone. This development ensures that the operational cycle is immediately brought to a safe halt should there be the slightest danger of a collision between the valuable - but vulnerable - nozzle of the head and any obstruction in its path. The most likely source of such collisions are when stray pieces of material being cut from the base stock fail to fall away cleanly and fold up to form a wedge. The use of this system will be particularly beneficial to users of large machines where long profiling cycles are more likely to be involved, allowing periods of unattended operation. Another reason is because, even when an operator is overseeing the process, the actual profiling zone is well out of his/her line of sight for most of the time Following the automatic intervention of the anti-collision prevention system, says WJS, it is a simple matter to clear the obstruction and to pick up the program from where it was halted without any damage to either the machine or the work in process, and full running can continue without serious interruption.