The flat spring (or leaf spring), used in Wavefront Inc’s TillerClutchTM, is constructed from 304 stainless full hard temper spring stock, 0.508mm thick x15.875 mm wide, customer-provided coil.

"Micro Waterjet provided critical length tolerances for our leaf spring part, far exceeding conventional industry machining with part tolerances improving from 0.127mm for standard machining to 0.025mm provided by Micro Waterjet. The timeliness, the precision, the preservation of the material's properties by frictionless cold-cutting, and the minimal tooling costs make this a really good process for start-ups."

~ Pete Crawford, President, Wavefront, Inc.

The assembled TillerClutchTM from Wavefront, Inc is a new marine accessory used to control the steering on a tiller-steered sailboat.

Renaissance Lighting manufactures high-end architectural, patented, solid-state LED lighting for commercial, government, medical, and residential construction including remodel projects. Pictured is the assembled, white 7DR3 downlight, including the reflector which is glued into place within the fixture.

"We were not getting the reflectivity we wanted with the previous methods, and it wasn’t passing our engineering inspections. I went out and starting looking for companies that did waterjet cutting. I sent out about a dozen quote requests including Micro Waterjet LLC. Of the quotes and questions I got back from those who did respond to me, Micro Waterjet came in at the lowest price of the quotes. Also a most important element was the lead time to get the part made and delivered to us. Micro Waterjet also had the shortest lead time as well."

~ Tom Dick, Inventory Control Supervisor / Purchasing Agent for Renaissance Lighting

Shown with the actual housing it is glued to, the wall wash kicker part is made of Alanod Miro-Silver and looks deceptively simple, but there is a particularly hard curve to master.

Working with Micro Waterjet LLC engineers, researchers prototyped two pole geometries, one of which is shown in the SEM image from 150[μm] thick Hiperco50® sheet.

I am collaborating in the development of three-dimensional force instrumentation for use in conjunction with optical microscopes, for use mainly in the biomedical and material sciences. This technology applies controlled 3D forces in the range of pico Newtons to nano Newtons by electromagnets on free floating magnetic probes hundreds of nanometers ([nm]) to a few microns ([μm]) in diameter. Water jet machining was a fascinating candidate (along with laser cutting and photolithography), but until the advent of Micro Waterjet LLC (MWJ), it lacked the precision and kerf width essential for our purposes.

"Working with MWJ engineers, we have prototyped two pole geometries. Preliminary estimates of production costs compare favorably with the other methods described. While more tests lie ahead of us as of this writing, I am optimistic that MWJ technology is a superior solution for our needs."

~ Leandra Vicci, Director of the Applied Engineering Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill in collaboration with the Nano Sciences Research Group and Professor Richard Superfine of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UNC-Chapel Hill.