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VIDEO: Community, Technology and the Future of Moldmaking: Notes from IMTS

A discussion with AMT’s Bill Herman during ShopTalk on the big stage at IMTS 2024 highlights moldmaking's unique blend of craft and technology that is driving innovation while its community tackles key challenges.

IMTS 2024: The Show Continues on IMTS+

AMT shares highlights from IMTS 2024, as well as its digital community, IMTS+, which features live content captured at the show.

Working to Change the Perception of Manufacturing

Decades of mentoring helped launch an initiative to promote manufacturing careers and empower youth nationwide.

First-Time IMTS Experience: Uncovering Innovations for Moldmakers

Attending my first IMTS with the MoldMaking Technology team gave me the chance to explore a variety of products, equipment and services that will benefit moldmakers while engaging with industry experts.

AMT, SME Announce Strategic Partnership in Workforce Development

AMT’s education products and services will be integrated into the learning and development solutions of Tooling U-SME to help solve North America’s manufacturing workforce challenges.

IMTS 2024 is Open for Registration, Offers Solutions for All Manufacturers

“Inspiring the Extraordinary” sets the theme for IMTS 2024, with a wide breadth and depth of technologies and service offerings that reflect the trends and needs of the manufacturing industry.

AMT, Mesago Collaborate to Create Automation Sector at IMTS, SPS

The Association For Manufacturing Technology and Mesago are collaborating to create the Automation Sector at IMTS and SPS on alternating years.

IMTS 2022 Shop Talk: Why Moldmaking Matters

MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges sits down with AMT’s Bill Herman on “the big stage” for IMTS Shop Talk to discuss all things moldmaking.

IMTS 2022: From Precision Products & Professionals to Podcasts & Parties

Four years since the last IMTS and this 2022 event served up plenty of product line expansions, technology enhancements, candid conversations about business challenges and deep discussions about using technology and training to stay competitive.

The Onshoring Project Aims to Reverse Offshoring

The Onshoring Project will develop and share new metrics, tools and practices that will shift executive focus toward sourcing from lean-performing North American suppliers.

American Precision Museum Launches New Digital Exhibit to Support the Future of Manufacturing

The Manufacturing Ledger exhibit is a dynamic collection of stories and profiles about individuals whose career was spent in manufacturing. Honor a manufacturing innovator, advocate or educator by contributing your own story.

Real Cutting Tool Orders Second Highest Since March 2020

A strong recovery in metalworking, exhibited by the v-shaped recovery in the GBI: Metalworking, has led to strong growth in cutting tool orders for three straight months.

AMT and GBM Announce the Launch of MT United

The new joint venture between The Association For Manufacturing Technology and Gardner Business Media intends to drive and strengthen the manufacturing community.

Machine Tool Orders Grow More Than 50% for Second Month

The strong growth in the metalworking industry should lead to accelerating growth in machine tool orders throughout 2021.

April Machine Tool Orders Best April Since 1998

April’s month-over-month rate of growth was the fastest since since May 2011, with a 55.6% increased in units ordered compared to last year.

March Cutting Tool Orders Highest in 13 Months

March cutting tool orders reached $177.6 million, which Gardner Intelligence says is close to a normal, pre-lockdown level. Starting in April, rapidly accelerating growth in the rate of change is expected.

Fourth National Metalworking Reshoring Award Competition Open for Applications

The Reshoring Initiative, PMA, NTMA and AMT seek to motivate and honor companies that have made reshoring a reality. Application deadline is June 30, 2021.

AMT Launches Smartforce Career & Education Experience Digital Platform

The re-imagined and rebranded Smartforce Student Summit delivers an engaging, remote experience for college and high school students to better learn about the manufacturing industry.

National Metalworking Reshoring Award Recognizes Die-Tech, Trenton Forging

The National Metalworking Reshoring Award honors companies that have effectively reshored products, parts or tooling. This year, Die Tech & Engineering and Trenton Forging Co. were recognized.

Virtual Learning Is Taking Off in Moldmaking

If you were unable to attend Amerimold Connects, you can experience our version of virtual learning by watching all of the recorded live-stream presentations on the Amerimold Expo website.

Röhm Products of America Announces Acquisition

Röhm Products of America announced its acquisition of Master WorkHolding.

How MoldMaking Technology Magazine Came to Be

Twenty years ago a moldmaker launched this magazine, legitimizing an industry and then passed it on to a passionate media company, which took it to the next level.

2018 Is a Big Year of Events and Opportunities for Moldmakers

A positive projection in growth and spending from Gardner Intelligence is timed with NPE, Amerimold and IMTS, MMT’s 20th anniversary milestone and the 15th anniversary of MMT’s annual Leadtime Leader Awards competition.

The Next Industrial Revolution is Here

Many people think that Industrial Revolutions are firmly in the past, that there’s nothing that significant on the horizon for manufacturing like there was at the turn of the last century. But they would be wrong.

IMTS to Showcase 3D-Printed Vehicle

Designed by Local Motors in collaboration with a global community, the first direct-digital-manufactured electric vehicle will be purpose-built for the urban transportation needs of Chicago.

Manufacturing Brighter Futures

That’s the slogan on the door of the Smartforce Rally Fighter, a collaboratively developed car that will appear at an April 16 event dedicated to raising awareness of what manufacturing careers have to offer.

TRAM Returns to IMTS

The targeted aerospace conference will kick off with a presentation from Boeing’s vice president of research and technology.

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With mold manufacturers looking to maximize machine productivity and many implementing some type of machine tool monitoring, I thought it was time to share with you a solution that MMT"s sister publication Modern Machine Shop has shed some light on: MTConnect--manufacturing data anywhere, at anytime, from any device to any software application.

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