OMAX® Corp’s 20th Draws Huge Crowd

KENT, Wash. – OMAX Corp. welcomed nearly 600 customers, friends, family and special guests from across the country at SHAPE THE FUTURE: OMAX’s 20th Anniversary Open House and Technology Event last month.

In addition to live cutting demonstrations and interactive technical sessions, the Aug. 20 event featured tours of OMAX’s recently expanded, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.

Click photo to enlargeAttendees witnessed cutting-edge machining advancements throughout the facility, including the introduction of the new MicroMAX™ JetMachining® Center, which provides manufacturers with the ability to cut parts or part features smaller than 400 microns from a wide range of thicknesses and materials.

At the event, OMAX also launched a new version of its Intelli-MAX® Software Suite, an intuitive control software that automatically optimizes the tool paths of the company’s advanced abrasive waterjet systems. The new Intelli-MAX 20 incorporates several enhanced features that improve the speed and memory utilization of OMAX JetMachining and MAXIEM® JetCutting Centers as well as new tools that allow for increased operator efficiency.

In addition to advanced technology, OMAX showcased its expanded manufacturing facility. The new 22,000 ft² building extends the company’s training, research and development, and engineering efforts. Currently, the campus encompasses 130,000 ft² of space spread across three buildings.

USMC Gunnery Sgt. Matt Wolfe was in attendance to discuss how abrasive waterjet cutting technology was deployed to Camp Leatherneck in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Military personnel used the portable abrasive waterjet cutting to fabricate parts less than 10 miles from where they would be used.

Dr. Robin Coope, group leader for instrumentation at the British Columbia Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre, gave a presentation on how his team uses OMAX machines in the fight against cancer, specifically to manufacture parts for Barracuda, a robot that automates the selecting of a particular size of DNA strands to put into sequencing machines.

Steve Folin, founder and owner of Rickard Engineering & Design, shared how his investment in MAXIEM JetCutting Centers expanded his shop’s capabilities and increased productivity. The breadth of materials that can be cut using MAXIEM waterjet technology paired with its low maintenance, has enabled Rickard Engineering & Design to double capacity each year.

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