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For as long as we’ve been around, Jet Edge has been dedicated to educating end-users of water jet cutting systems regardless of the manufacturer. One of the most significant parts of that dedication to continued education is proper maintenance of ...

When people think of water jet cutting systems, they rarely think much of the software that runs them – and even less so of the operating system that software is running on. However, this software is critical not only to the safe operation of that ...

If you’re in an industry using water jet cutting machines you know how important proper machine maintenance is. You know that up-time is crucial to productivity and profitability and how devastating downtime can be. This is especially true with ...

There are a variety of different products and applications that are a great fit for use with water jet cutting machines. However, not all products and applications can be treated the same way. Different water jet configurations are often needed to ...

There’s no getting around it, operating a water jet cutting system requires a large amount of water. If you’re using an abrasive water jet system, you’re mixing water and abrasive – a process that produces a wastewater by-product. Disposal of these ...

Water jet cutting systems are made to cut through nearly every imaginable surface, but not all systems are alike. Different materials require specific water jet cutting systems.

If you’re in the market for a new or used water jet cutting system, then we don’t have to tell you how expensive these machines are. Water jet cutting systems are complex machines with high powered pumps, automated cutting heads, lots of moving ...

Updated 7-29-21

Steel comes in a lot of shapes and sizes – coiled, flat, bar, plate, tube and more. The common element of each of these is they require some kind of “cutting to shape” for customers. Slitting lines are used to slit the coil to width ...

Behind every great water jet cutting machine is a high-pressure pump. The pump is the heart of your machine – creating a high-pressure environment that gives life to your cutting head. If you don’t have the right pump, you won’t get the performance ...