Benefits of Working With Our Machine Shop

Midland Waterjet is an experienced machine shop serving clients throughout Midland, Odessa, Lubbock, Abilene, and the surrounding areas. Working with a professional machine shop offers a multitude of benefits that can help your business. 

• Experience: Our professional machine shop employs a team of highly skilled and experienced machinists with the knowledge and experience to handle even the most complex projects with precision and efficiency. 
• Equipment: Many fabrication and machining tasks require specialized equipment, which can be difficult and expensive to acquire. A dedicated machine shop is equipped with state-of-the-art machinery and cutting-edge technology, ensuring that your completed product meets the highest quality standards.
• Versatility: Whether you need specialized services or multiple tasks, a professional team can help. Midland Waterjet can offer a wide range of services, including multiple different kinds of fabrication, custom metalwork, waterjet cutting, and more. This allows your business to consolidate its machining needs in one convenient place. 
• Optimize Resources: By outsourcing your machining tasks to our professional machine shop, you can save time, reduce costs, and focus on other things. We will make sure that your project is completed efficiently and with the utmost attention to detail. 
• Customer Service: We collaborate closely with all of our clients throughout the course of the projects to ensure that we understand their specific needs and deliver tailored solutions. You’ll be impressed with our level of commitment and communication!

Partnering with our professional machine shop streamlines the manufacturing process, improves product quality, and enhances overall efficiency for businesses across various industries in the region. The team at Midland Waterjet is here to help. Contact us today to learn more!

Waterjet cutting offers a number of cost saving benefits and advantages over older and more antiquated technologies. Browse the rest of this page to learn more about this innovative process and feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. Here are some of the key benefits to using waterjet cutting for your project:

• Rapid Setup: Waterjets can be setup rapidly. There is no tooling or extensive fixturing. This means that low quantities can be produced as efficiently as high quantities. This is perfect for lean strategies. A part can go from design to finished production in a matter of minutes.
• High Accuracy: Waterjets are capable of cutting materials to within +/- .004”. Using the Tilt-A-Jet, taper is minimized and accuracies can be sustained on thick materials. 
• Extreme Versatility: Waterjets can machine an almost endless variety of materials. A waterjet can cut 1½” steel, switch to 1/16” plastic and then 1” granite, all in the course of a day or even an hour!
  
• Cuts Difficult Materials: Both hardened materials and gummy materials are easily cut.
  
• Cuts Thin Materials: Very thin materials such as thin plastics or shim stock can be cut with no problem.
  
• Cuts Thick Materials: Materials up to 5 or 6 inches thick can be cut.
  
• No Heat: Waterjet cutting is a cold process. This precision metal cutting process does not put any heat into the material. Therefore you do not get a Heat Affected Zone (HAZ). You won’t experience any distortion or warping either. Parts can be handled immediately after cutting.
  
• No Secondary Operations: Waterjets cut extraordinarily clean. Parts can be taken directly from the machine with minimal secondary operations.
  
• Minimal Kerf: Waterjets provide maximum material utilization. Parts can be nested extremely close and sometimes use common lines. The cutting path is .030 inches wide.
  
• Stacking: Can often stack materials to save money.
  

Advantages vs. Laser

• Waterjets cut reflective materials - aluminum and copper are perfect precision machining materials
  
• No heat - No distortion or hardening
  
• Higher tolerance than many lasers
  
• Waterjets can cut thicker materials
  

Advantages vs. EDM

• Waterjets are much faster
  
• Waterjets cut a much wider variety of materials
  
• Waterjets can cut larger parts
  
• No surface heating

Advantages vs. Plasma, Fine Plasma and Flame Cutting

• Waterjets provide a much nicer edge finish
• No heat, no distortion or hardening
• Waterjets are much more precise
• Waterjets can cut more materials

Advantages vs. Milling

• Faster setup
• One tool
• Simple fixtures
• Easier programming
• Can cut brittle, hardened and difficult materials with ease
  

Midland Waterjet proudly serves the folks of Midland as their go-to machine shop. We are happy to provide metal fabrication, waterjet cutting, and similar work to all the businesses and consumers that need us. At Midland Waterjet, you can trust us to complete your project on time, on budget, and according to your exact specifications.

The next time you need expert metal fabrication or waterjet cutting, count on Midland Waterjet. We are proud to serve clients throughout the throughout Abilene, Midland, Lubbock, and Odessa, TX areas. Call us today so we can start your project.