© The Author(s) 2015. Published by Science and Education Publishing. Table 9. Economic performance of different machining methods, adapted from [32,33,34] Process Capital Investment Tooling Fixtures Power Requirement Efficiency Tool Consumption Abrasive WaterJet Very Low Low High Laser Beam Medium Very High Mohammad S. Alsoufi et al. Experimental Study of Surface Roughness and Micro-Hardness Obtained by Cutting Carbon Steel with Abrasive WaterJet and Laser Beam Technologies. American Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2016, Vol. 4, No. 5, 173-181. doi:10.12691/ajme-4-5-2 © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Science and Education Publishing.