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Abrasive Water Jet is an innovation process which proves to be a good solution for cutting, drilling, polishing for various materials. Abrasive Water Jet Machining is extensively used in many industrial applications. Abrasive Water Jet Machine is non-conventional machining process. The material removal process in mainly by erosion where material removal rate by impact of high pressure, high velocity of water and high girt abrasive. In work piece now there are many parameters affect in machined surface to be cut by abrasive water jet machine. The effect of material thickness, traverse speed and abrasive mass flow rate during abrasive water jet cutting of aluminium on surface roughness were investigated. Surface roughness was measured across of depth of cut. The experimental results show that poor surface roughness at bottom of cut. Based on the experiments the optimal process parameters for each material thickness were defined.