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2025 Distribution Summit Registration Is Open
The Distribution Summit is a short, two-day event held Nov. 18-19 in Carmel, Indiana, focusing on optimizing your sales tools. Whether you need to improve your sales tactics or learn strategies to deploy regional sales personnel more effectively, D25 provides targeted, efficient training that will immediately benefit your operations.
MTForecast: Manufacturing’s First Look at the 2026 Market
Between rapid policy shifts and evolving market dynamics, manufacturers need more than sensationalist headlines – they need clear, actionable forecasts tailored to the manufacturing technology industry. That's what attendees will find at MTForecast 2025 on Oct. 15-17 in Schaumburg, Illinois. Here's a preview of what to expect.
News You Can Use
As experienced service technicians retire, manufacturers risk losing critical knowledge. Learn how one company uses model-based AI to capture hard-won knowledge and passes it on.
Thanks to strategic incentives, trade access, and an industrial investment boom, Mexico and Brazil, the two manufacturing powerhouses of Latin America, are attracting global companies.
AI+ Expo explores AI’s role in defense, ethics, and innovation, highlighting the recombination of existing technology while raising vital questions about its future impact and use.
Researchers have built an AI-enabled/controlled surgical robot that can complete full procedures without human guidance. The SRT-H system uses vision, language models, and a dual-layer brain/control to plan and execute all surgical steps on its own.
By the Numbers
Through May 2025, the value of new metalworking machinery orders is up an impressive 15% over the first five months of 2024. The number of units ordered over the same period has shown far flatter growth, up only 4.7% – the highest rate of growth since 2021.
Hear the latest forecast on how the remainder of 2025 will fare at AMT’s Summer Economic Update Webinar on Thursday, Aug. 7.
Upcoming Events
July 30, 2025: AMT Meetup in Carmel, Indianapolis.
August 7, 2025: AMT Summer Economic Update Webinar, Online.
August 20, 2025: AMT Meetup in Los Angeles, California.
September 16-18, 2025: SPS Atlanta 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.
September 24, 2025: AMT Meetup in St. Louis, Missouri.
Member News
From anniversaries and milestones to leadership moves and partnerships, get updates from Trumpf, Allied Machine, ProShop ERP, Autodesk, Okuma, United Grinding, Tsugami America, Schneeberger, Muratec USA, and ANCA – plus event updates from Weldon Solutions and Mid Atlantic Machinery.
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