Capacity: to cut nearly any 2D shape Glass thickness range: 2-100mm Advantage: small kerf, faster speed and smooth finishing

The technologies use the principle of pressurizing water to extremely high pressures, and allowing the water to escape through a very small opening (typically called the "orifice" or "jewel"). Water jets use the beam of water exiting the orifice (or jewel) to cut the material.

Abrasive jets use that same beam of water to accelerate abrasive particles to speeds fast enough to cut through much harder materials.

Here are some benefits to using waterjet to do glass cutting:

 

Cheaper than other processes.Cut virtually any material:Cut thin stuff, or thick stuffpre hardened steelmild steelexotics like Titanium, Inconel, Hastalloygummy 304 stainless(most steels cut at the same speed, whether hardened, or not.)Copper, Brass, Aluminum: They are a cinch!brittle materials like glass, ceramic, quartz, stone.laminatesflammable materialsMake all sorts of shapes with only one tool.Cut wide range of thickness to reasonable tolerance up to 2 (50mm) thickUp to 5 (127mm) or thicker where tolerance not important, or in soft materials.No Heat Generated / No heat affected zones - this is cold cutting!No mechanical stressesCut virtually any shape:Fast Setup:Only one tool to qualify / No tool changes requiredFast turn around on the machine.  Make a part, then 2 minutes be making a completely different part from a completely different material.Leaves a satin smooth finish, thus reducing secondary operationsClean cutting process without gasses or oilsMakes its own start holesNarrow kerf removes only a small amount of material.Your "scrap" metal is easier to recycle or re-use (no oily chips!)Modern systems are now very easy to learn.You can trade off tolerance vs speed from feature to feature on your part.Can easily switch between high production, and single piece production, on the same machine, with no extra effort.Are very safe.  (No, they don't explode, thanks to the nearly incompressible property of water.)Draw the part / cut the part.  It is that easy!  Everyone in your shop can learn to use it quickly.No "scaley" edges, which makes it easier to make a high quality weldMachine composite materials, or materials where dissimilar materials are glued togetherMachine stacks of thin parts all at once.

Reference Cutting Speed
Material	Thickness(mm)	Cutting Speed of 300MPa pump working pressure is 260MPa(mm/min)	Cutting Speed of 380MPa pump working pressure is 330MPa (mm/min)
Marble	20	300	380
	30	200	300
Granite	20	250	330
	30	150	200
Glass Brick	12	800	960
Glass	5	1200	1500
	10	500	600
	20	350	420
Glue Chipped Glass	10	450	540
Sponge	50	5000	6000
Foam	50	5000	6000
Wood	10	1000	1200
	50	200	240
Steel	2	600	720
	4	400	500
	6	300	420
	8	200	300
	10	120	200
	15	75	120
	20	30	50
	60	12	20
Laminates	10	1500	1800
Aluminum	5	350	500
Copper	5	350	420
Glass Fibre Reinforced plastic	2	1200	1500

Waterjet glass cutting machine