At the Omax Corp. blog, writer Gretchen Salois profiles Waterjet Cutting of Indiana, which often attracts customers "because they know they can hand over drawings for an intricate job Friday afternoon, and receive them first thing Monday," she writes. The company cuts everything from skid plates for Indy 500 cars to magnets for the oil industry to elevator weights for buildings throughout the company's hometown of Indianapolis.

"I worked with a waterjet for an old employer, but was ready to start out on my own," recalls Michael Trapp, owner of Waterjet Cutting of Indiana. ... The Indianapolis shop cuts carbon and stainless steels, Inconel, Hastalloy and exoticalloys. "We've cut skid plates for Indycars as well as 9-inch-thick manganese steel that was shipped to Europe to be used for high-speed trains," Trapp says. "We've cut magnets for the oil industry down in Texas, signage, and steel weights used in elevators for a good portion of the buildings here in Indianapolis—we've touched a lot of this city."

"Two weekends ago a guy from another waterjet shop brought us a job he didn't have the capacity to fulfill," recalls Trapp. "We pushed out in three days what would have taken them a few weeks to complete. We ran three different machines and managed to get orders out whether same or next day. We do what we can to make it fit into our schedule."

The entire profile, with details on the business's waterjet equipment and software, is here.