If you mean production as in cutting a lot of parts, I doubt it will meet that need. It could be a robust personal machine, but having worked around industrial waterjets - they are high maintenance, consume pallets of garnet and nozzles, and pumps being very high pressure are also high maintenance.
But for what they are good at, at an industrial scale, can justify cost in reduced machining or eliminating heat affected zones.
They are really cool tools, so beyond maintenance is consumables, hereās what they list, it is 1-2X the laser in just media costs based on 60 minutes of run time. If it runs just 2 hours (a low estimate Iād guess) a day there is over a half ton (1,200 pounds, not wet) of media to dispose of plus storing what is needed.
It really would be a neat tool, but Iād wait a year before thinking of buying one of these to see what its operating costs are beyond media. What is the warranty on the pump? What is projected nozzle life and costs.
It is an amazing low price point.