machinery founded 1993 headquarters kent washington key people dr. john cheung ceo & founder dr. john h. olsen vp of operations & co founder number of employees 240 website http www.omax.com omax corporation is a large american provider of multi axis the ability to cut non flat objects water jet systems for use in the fabrication and manufacturing industry . 1 it is the second largest water jet machining company in the united states of america . 2 contents 1 history 2 aviation high school robotics 3 competitors 4 references 5 external links 6 see also history edit omax was established in 1993 by dr. john cheung and dr. john olsen . they made high pressure abrasive jet machining a machining and fabrication process using a mixture of strong abrasives and liquid propelled by a high velocity gas to erode material to form intricate shapes or specific edge shapes . 3 4 5 aviation high school robotics edit each year omax sponsors the robotics team from aviation high school . omax supervises the aviation skunkworks team as members cut parts for their robot at omax s headquarters . the aviation high robotics team won the creativity award in the first for inspiration and recognition of science and technology championship held in st. louis missouri in april 2011 . 6 7 competitors edit omax s largest competitor is flow international corp. to avoid competition flow international attempted to buy omax for 109 million but because of the downturn in the economy the offer was reduced to 75 million . in 2009 it was announced that flow called off the merger stating we believe that our path forward alone is far superior to one combined with omax at the wrong price . john olsen co founder of omax stated that had the companies merged there would have certainly been layoffs . 2 other competitors include jet edge waterjets and esab cutting products . 8 references edit omax corporation . gamasutra . ubm techweb . retrieved 24 april 2013 . a b kent based flow calls off merger with smaller water jet rival omax . seattle times . the seattle times company online . retrieved 24 april 2013 . boothroyd geoffrey ; knight winston a. 1989 fundamentals of machining and machine tools 2nd ed . marcel dekker pp. 478 479 isbn 978 0 8247 7852 1 . todd robert h. ; allen dell k. ; alting leo 1994 manufacturing processes reference guide industrial press inc. pp. 2 5 isbn 0 8311 3049 0 . omax corporation . omax corporation . retrieved 24 april 2013 . omax sponsors winning team at first robotics championship . thomasnet.com . thomas publishing company . retrieved 24 april 2013 . welcome to skunkworks robotics . skunkworks robotics . aviation high school . retrieved 24 april 2013 . omax corporation . zoom info . zoom information inc. retrieved 24 april 2013 . external links edit http www.omax.com waterjets omax corporation http www.maxiemwaterjets.com see also edit water jet cutter this united states manufacturing company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title omax corporation & oldid 743978457 categories companies based in kent washingtoncompanies based in washington state companies established in 1993united states manufacturing company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 10 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view