1. Flow Flow – Waterjets !
The world’s leading
manufacturer of
ultra-high pressure
waterjet cutting systems

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FLOW group
Production Plant
• Flow Headquarters - Kent, WA, USA
• Flow Robotics - Jeffersonville, IN, USA
• Flow Technology Center - Plymouth Township, MI, USA
• Flow Automation - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Flow Europe - Bretten, Germany
• Flow Asia - Hsin Chu, Taiwan
• Flow Japan - Tokyo, Japan
• Flow China - Singapore & Beijing, China

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FLOW-Group
is the world leading System Supplier for
Ultra High Pressure
Water and Abrasivejet Cutting Technology
more than 10,000 UHP-Systems installed worldwide
• Global acting Company with more than 800 employees
• Quoted at the NASDAQ stock exchange
• Manufacturing of UHP-pumps in Kent (Seattle, USA) certified ISO9001
• 6 - 9 % of yearly revenue are reinvested in Research and Developement

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the high pressure awj cutting technology
basic principles
• water is pressurized by UHP Pumps up to 4150 bar or more and through
plumbing, is forced to a cutting head generating an high pressure water
flow.
• In the cutting head, a small amount of abrasive (garnet) is mixed into the
jet stream and focused.
• The resulting "abrasive waterjet" can cut virtually any hard material such
as metal, composites, stone and glass up to 300 mm thickness
• With a cutting table, driven by the intelligent PC based control FlowMaster,
every shape and materials can be cut

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the high pressure awj cutting technology
basic principles
• Material separation is obtained thanks to the kinetic energy of the jet
stream.
• Waterjet produce net-shaped parts with no heat-affected zone, heat
distortion, or mechanical stresses caused by other cutting methods,
• One “tool” for drilling and cutting
• Clean and enviroment friendly tecnique

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Waterjet Cutting: The „Cold“ CUT !
ONE Tool for all Materials
Process: Water - Abrasive
Compression
/ Erosion
Tool Diameter = Kerf
- Pure Waterjet: 0.08 – 0.5 mm
- Abrasive Waterjet: 0.8 – 1.0 mm
Material Thickness: 0 ÷ 150 mm
Materials: everything
Cut accuracy* : up to +/- 0.04 mm
*depends from technology,;cutting parameters ;material thickness

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Materials for Materials for
Pure Waterjet Cutting Abrasivejet-Cutting
• Foam / Insolation Materials • ALL Kind of Metals
• Paper • Al, St, Ti, Chrome-Nickel-
Alloys, Cu, Brass etc
• Plastics
• Stone & Glass
• Gaskets / Seals
• Composits
• Disposable Diapers
• Laminats (e.g. Graphite,
• Automotive Interiors GRP...)
• Food • Ceramic Materials,
• All different soft materials inclusive Aluminiumoxyde
• sintered harden metalls,
• Everything ...

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Materials for
Pure Waterjet Cutting

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Materials for
Abrasivejet-Cutting
60 mm Marble
Various metal

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Two – Dimensional
Cutting
Marble Factories:
are the main customer base of FLOW
• Specific Benefits
• High Flexibility and Versatility
• Only ONE Tool for all kind of
different materials
• No heat effected Zones
• Finished machined parts, no further
machining required
• High Accuracy even on thick
materials

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Two - dimensional Cutting Stone Job shops
– Examples of Installation

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Accurate decoration Mosaic and Stone Cutting
Sheickh Zayed Bin Sultan Mosque - Abu Dhabi
All the waterjet works has been made by Flow systems

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Accurate decoration Mosaic and Stone Cutting

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Two - dimensional Cutting Stone Job shops
– Examples of Installation

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an AbrasiveWaterjet Cutting System

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Flow mod. IFB abrasive waterjet cutting system
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an exclusive Technology…
the Flow advantages
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
• Intensifier and HyPlex pumps technology.
• Patented Paser ECL Plus cutting head.
• FlowMaster PC based control and software..
• Standard 2D cutting table WMC and IFB models.
• Reliability and High accuracy in every systems .
• FLOW DYNAMIC Technology
• a “total solution” supplyer

19. an exclusive Technology……… – Waterjets !
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the Flow advantages
Intensifier and HyPlex Pumps Technology.
• wide range of UHP Pumps
working pressure up to 6.000 bar-flow rate from 1,9 to 15 l/min
• Experience from more than 10,00 Pumps and Systems delivered
worldwide
• Own Research and Developement
• Using highest Permanent Working Pressure in the industry
• Longest Lifetimes by
• Using Special Materials for the HP-Seals (ESL)
• Ceramic Plungers
• Easy and fast Maintenance
• New high efficency HyPlex pump

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Flow Intensifier and HyPlex Pump
Pompa da 6.000 bar
Intensifier pump at 6.000 bar
HyPlex Pump3.800 bar

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How Flow Intensifier pump Works

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HyPlex –
Pump-Technology
• Triple - Plunger with Direct Drive
• 3.800 bar / 55,000 psi
operating pressure
• Very high degree of effectiveness
(> 95 %)
• Higher Flowrate at same power vs.
Intensifier Pump
 30HP/22kW = 3,0 l/min (0.8gpm)
 50HP/37kW = 4,7 l/min
(1.25gpm)
• Compact design
• Quiet
• FlowSense: Preventive Diagnostic-
and Maintenance concept
• 500 h Service-Intervall (37kW)

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How Flow HyPlex pump Works

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FLOW hp Pumps : Easy to mantain !

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The Cutting Head.....
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Typical is 80 mesh Garnet
Abrasive Waterjet

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Ultra-Highpressure Components
Cutting Head-System PASER®ECL plus
 highprecision, self-allignment
of Waterjet and Mixingtube
 Best Usage of the hydraulic power
 new developed Water Orifice ≥ 800+ Hours Lifetime
 optimum focussed coherent jetstream
 lowest wear of mixingtube
 always at Peak Performance
 optimal usage of abrasive garnet
 highest cut speeds
 patented Vacuumassist-Unit: Ultrapierce
TM
 direct drilling in every material
 NO mechanical predrilling is necessary

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Innovative Tools:
Flow – PASER ECL plus®-Cutting Head
Self Allignment
Orifice – Mixingtube System
Fast, Easy, Practical !

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Peak Performance
Influence of the Abrasive Flow Rate
Too less abrasive Too much abrasive
Cost per Meter
Cutting Speed
Jet
clogged
PASER
Peak Performance
Abrasive Flow Rate

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Easy Use of FLOWMASTER
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FLOWMASTER is...
• ....the Windows based PC Control
for Waterjet Systems developed by FLOW
• ....the CAD/CAM-Software with AutoNesting-Option
• ....the Knowledge Database with all necessary
parameters for all kind of materials
• ....quick to learn and easy to use (only Input of Kind of Material, Thickness,
and required Quality Grade)
• ....the Operator Panel to Control and Monitor all Machine Parameters
(Pump Pressure, Peak Performance Monitoring, Diagnosics,... )

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FLOWMASTER is EASY TO USE
Trained in a day
---
Professional within a Week
.... with 4 Steps to the Cut !

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STEP 1
• make a drawing or
• read a existing file as a drawing
into the program (dxf, iges,...)

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STEP 2
• automatic or manual
Path-finding

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STEP 3
• Select Material
• Enter Thickness and Quality Grade

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Select Material, Thickness and Quality
Integrated Material Database
with more than
100 different settings

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STEP 4
• Start the Pump and the Cutting Process
• Control of the Tool Position
• „Multitasking“
Program the next part, while Cutting

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optimal Usage of the Cutting Material
by using the
Automatic Optimization Programm
Options
FLOWNest - Nesting-Module Next:
Comparison of
• Select from different shapes Technologies
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Waterjet Machining Center WMC2

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Waterjet Machining Center WMC2

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Key Benefits and Characteristics
of the WMC2
Modular System
- from 1 to 2 cutting heads;
- Sizes available from 3 x 2 m up to 4 x 6 m
- stainless steel catcher tank
- integrated waterleveling device
- stainless steel covers
High Precision
Gantry Ballscrew Drive System
- SIEMENS Servo – Drives
- Deutsche STAR – Guiding System with double bellow protection
- FLOW pattented „driven nut“ – technology
- Fast Traverse Speeds – up to 35 m/min
Quicklift Precision Z-Axis
- integrated height and collision sensor
- break away collision sensor
Self Cleaning Waterveyor
- easy remove of used garnet

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Integrated Flying Bridge IFB
The most used waterjet cutting system in the world
over 4000 Installations

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Integrated Flying Bridge IFB

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an exclusive Technology………
the Flow advantages
accuracy test
Geometry and accuracy control done by laser Interferometer

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an exclusive Technology………
the Flow advantages
Mechanical stress calculation for the IFB structures

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FLOWMASTER

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FLOW – Waterjet - KnowHow:
Flow Dynamic Waterjet
with Active Tolerance Control
the Revolution in Waterjet Cutting

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Dynamic Waterjet
faster, better Quality

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Dynamic Waterjet
faster, better Quality
 NO taper at the Cutting Edge
 Best Corner Quality
 Increased Productivity (up to 3 times faster)
 Cutting of Multilayers
 Easy Use via FlowMaster

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Dynamic Waterjet
Faster, better Quality
• Highprecision Cutting Head
• Patented 3D-MiniWrist
• New
„Erichsen“-Cutting Models
• Relating to Material, CutSpeed
CutPath and Shape

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Dynamic Waterjet
Faster, better Quality

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Faster, better Quality
+/- 0,08 mm Conventionell +/- 0,04 mm
5 min 24 sec Waterjet 2 min 19 sec

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Dynamic Waterjet
Faster, better Quality

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The Flow Advantages
• Flow International is the inventor of the abrasive waterjet process
and over the past 20 years has sold 4 times as many waterjet
systems as all other suppliers combined.
• Market Leadership
• Technology Leadership
• Customer Service
• Total Systems Solutions

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