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Process: Waterjet/Laser Cutting
Gapfill Exercise Passives & Verbs
Go to http://manufacturing.stanford.edu. Click on “How Everyday Things are Made.” Click on Processes > Waterjet/Laser Cutting.
Listening starts at 1.08: click on Flow Corporation link to go directly, bypassing initial video.
Do the Vocabulary first, and then try the Listening
Vocabulary
1. Complex means
- A place with several building
- Easy
- Simple
- Having many angles or curves
2. Abrasive probably means
- Soft and gentle
- Rough and cutting
- Low pressure
- Strange, curious
3. Virtually
- Almost
- Every
- Partly
- Slightly
4. Productivity
- The cost of production
- The amount you produce
- The money you make
- The amount you produce
5. Patented
- Sold to another company
- Bought from another company
- Transferred from another country
- Registered with the government
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Listening
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To profitably cut complex shapes with high tolerances, you need a machine tool that’s versatile and dependable. Abrasive water jets from Flow International Corporation __________________ the machine tool choice around the world because of their reliability, simplicity and versatility.
Abrasive water jets ___________________ virtually any material up to 12 inches thick, including aluminium, titanium, stainless steel, glass, marble, and composites.
Ultra high-pressure water, pressurized up to 60,000 pounds per square inch, is cool, so ________________________ no heat-affected zone.
Abrasive water jets cut by erosion rather than friction or shearing.
Lightweight abrasive water jets ___________________________ advanced motion systems, so your productivity goes up, because there are no costly and time-consuming tooling changes. Changes in the cutting path _______________________________ in minutes by clicking a mouse, or typing on a keyboard. Pure water jets _____________________to cut soft materials like paper and food, but to cut hard materials, Flow ____________________ and patented abrasive water jets in 1982.
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Waterjet/Laser Cutting: Answers
To profitably cut complex shapes with high tolerances, you need a machine tool that’s versatile and dependable. Abrasive water jets from Flow International Corporation have become the machine tool choice around the world because of their reliability, simplicity and versatility.
Abrasive water jets cut virtually any material up to 12 inches thick, including aluminium, titanium, stainless steel, glass, marble, and composites.
Ultra high-pressure water, pressurized up to 60,000 pounds per square inch, is cool, so there is no heat-affected zone.
Abrasive water jets cut by erosion rather than friction or shearing.
Lightweight abrasive water jets are controlled with advanced motion systems, so your productivity goes up, because there are no costly and time-consuming tooling changes. Changes in the cutting path are easily made in minutes by clicking a mouse, or typing on a keyboard. Pure water jets are used to cut soft materials like paper and food, but to cut hard materials, Flow invented and patented abrasive water jets in 1982.