WAZER NEWS
Stay updated with the latest WAZER waterjet cutting news, interviews with experts from around the world and tutorials on how to leverage cutting with WAZER in your shop.
Product Updates
The new Resource section now makes it much easier to find anything, starting with simple and straightforward buttons, to quickly guide you through the new pages and lead you to the content you are looking for.
Firmware Version 1.53 ushers in our most significant update, with user-focused improvements, based on critical customer feedback around workflow issues with our machine. We strongly encourage you to update your machine’s firmware. WAZER’S FIRMWARE WILL NOT UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY! Refer to the Updating the Firmware article for instructions on how to make this highly recommended update.
Wam, our web-based platform for preparing designs for cutting on WAZER, is getting its first significant upgrade. These changes will automatically appear the next time you use the software.
Firmware Version 1.5 ushers in our most significant update, with user-focused improvements, based on critical customer feedback around workflow issues with our machine. We strongly encourage you to update your machine’s firmware. WAZER’S FIRMWARE WILL NOT UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY! Refer to the Updating the Firmware article for instructions on how to make this highly recommended update.
Wam, our web-based platform for preparing designs for cutting on WAZER, is getting its first significant upgrade. These changes will automatically appear the next time you use the software. Version 1.4 includes a combination of new features, user interface changes, and bug fixes.
Wam, our web-based platform for preparing designs for cutting on WAZER, is getting its first significant upgrade. These changes go live today and will automatically appear the next time you use the software. Version 1.3 includes a combination of new features, user interface changes and bug fixes.
Firmware Version 1.4 brings some significant improvements, and we strongly encourage you to update your machine’s firmware. WAZER’S FIRMWARE WILL NOT UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY! Refer to the Updating the Firmware article for instructions on how to make this highly recommended update
WAZER Firmware refers to the software that is onboard WAZER, embedded within the Controller. The firmware controls all of WAZER’s actions, including gantry movement, water and abrasive flow and maintenance procedures. As we improve WAZER through new firmware development, we will also make sure to release the latest firmware version so prior customers can update their machines.
As the number of WAZER machines in the field increases, we have expanded our Technical Support offering in order to improve your customer experience. There are two methods of getting Technical Support: self-help via the Resources section and contacting WAZER directly. Both of these methods have been improved.
Thank you for being an early adopter and supporter of WAZER. We are constantly listening to our customers and striving to create a better product over time. Since the production of your WAZER we have made improvements and feel we owe it to you to upgrade your machine. That's right, here at WAZER we don't just believe in updating Firmware and Software - we update Hardware too!
Cut Content
Fixturing for CNC Cutting, Desktop Waterjet Cutter, Locating Cut Files Using a Jig, Repeatedly and Precisely Cutting Your Design, Customizing Your Products, Positioning Your Design With CAM Softwar
Learn how to use a cnc waterjet to create high precision tools to transform thin lightweight sheet metal into rigid structural elements in a flat pack camping stove. Custom die press tools are typically thought to be reserved for heavy industry; this method allows creating custom tooling for sheet metal parts in any workshop.
Using a waterjet cutter to make a custom Settlers of Catan board out of stone and ceramic tiles.
Learn how to use a cnc waterjet to create two folding pocket knives, one using conventional post-processing techniques to achieve desired tolerances, and the other using trial and error methods to dial the WAZER to achieve desired tolerances straight off the machine.
Learn the best techniques to cnc waterjet cut precise and intricate gaskets in thin, flexible materials. The method will explore best practice for fixturing and utilizing sacrificial materials to create functional buna-n gaskets.
Pensa Labs teamed up with Wazer to demonstrate the power and speed of bringing two metal digital fabrication tools together. By combining the D.I.Wire Pro and the Wazer waterjet cutter together, one can quickly produce high-quality and functional metal parts in the final material.
Company Updates
There are literally thousands of people who use WAZER or have interest in it! That’s why we’re introducing the WAZER Community Forum - to give all of you the opportunity to share with each other. We hope you join (it's free) and enjoy participating.
An important part of WAZER’s growth plans is expanding our Channel’s to market. In 2020 we launched our domestic reseller program, focused on the education market segment when we on-boarded a total of 14 Value Added Resellers (“VARs”. We also dipped our toe in the International channel in 2020 by opportunistically onboarding a French partner mid year, with very promising results.
Along with all other US manufacturers who import parts from China, we were hit with a 25% part-cost increase due to the tariffs placed on Chinese imports back in 2018. This was particularly significant for WAZER, since we did not account for this unexpected cost when we launched the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2016.
For the first few years of WAZER the company operated out of massive google sheets that contained the full manufacturing operations of the business. Eventually as the company matured and the complexity of our operations increased the next logical step was to use a commercial MRP (material resource planner) to manage the tracking of all parts, manufacturing orders, and inventory.
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of living next to a freight railway, you know that every time a train starts moving again after a stoppage, the event is accompanied by a startling and earth shaking clatter of cars and connectors screeching back to life.
By the end of 2020, WAZER units were shipped to 46 countries across the world. We are definitely onto something not only do we hear demand from all over the world, but we fulfill it and know the product and mission are spreading everywhere.
WAZER V1.5 is now available for the North American market. Since it incorporates the changes that were implemented for the International CE certifiable units, it has incorporated a number of new features that create a safer and more serviceable desktop waterjet. Original form factor and sleek aesthetic package of the original WAZER was largely maintained.
Since WAZER began we only sold directly to end users. Our first customers were our Kickstarter backers in 2016 and until late 2019 have been selling WAZER exclusively online with the help of our inside sales team
WAZER has moved to a new long term home in Yonkers,NY. While the journey to get here was far longer than we ever imagined, the new space offers far greater flexibility and functionality than the temporary spaces we had used before.
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