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THE LONG RUN: AMT AT 120 AND LESSONS FROM THE TRAIL by Douglas K. Woods | 01 WORKFORCE: KEEPING PACE WITH A CHANGING ECONOMY AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES by Greg Jones | 27 IS THE COVID SETBACK A SETUP FOR AN INDUSTRY COMEBACK? by Chris Chidzik | 32

AMT 120 YEARS ON: WHERE IT IS – AND GOING ANNIVERSARIES ARE A TIME OF STOCK TAKING. AND AS AMT HITS 120 YEARS, IT’S BULLISH ABOUT THE FUTURE. by Gary S. Vasilash | 13

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The Long Run: AMT at 120 and Lessons From the Trail

The Run When running a 100-mile race, I constantly analyze everything – distance, temperature, altitude, nutrition. Sometimes I run in the dark and on trails, so awareness is essential. Data comes in, and calculations are performed in real time to keep going. My backpack is optimized for the race, from liquids to outer wear. My shoes match the terrain: strong legs don’t matter with blisters. Similarly, companies need the right equipment to accomplish their objectives. This may cost more than alternatives but may be essential. While a jacket that weighs, say, 13 ounces would be a whole lot cheaper than a three-ounce jacket, those 10 ounces make a huge difference at mile 80. The right equipment matters. And while my sensors are my eyes, ears, skin, legs, and feet, a manufacturing company needs an array of sensors to provide the data that determines whether things are going in the right direction. You must be aware of it and use it. Staying With It The Leadville Trail 100 is a 100-mile race through the Rocky Mountains. I tried three times before I finished. Each time I didn’t make it, I figured out something to improve, whether it was how to adapt to the altitude or support a knee that was troubling me. Try. Modify. Try. Adjust. Repeat. It is very much like launching a new product. If you innovate, you’re going to be faced with some failures. So, you must try, modify, try, adjust …. Motivation Yes, motivation is fundamental. You’ve got to be motivated when you’re running, because it is going to hurt – hard. Some times during a run, I think to myself, “What kind of idiot am I? I’ve paid to do this!” But I have the motivation to keep going – walking if my legs won’t run. That motivation is the thing that any manager needs to keep the team moving ahead despite supply chain snafus, down equipment, and a whole raft of other challenges. Trust me: It can be done. AMT has been at it for 120 years.

AMT is now 120 years old. Because I have the honor of being the president of the association at the time of this remarkable anniversary, it might be expected that I’d talk about my predecessors or the founding or something else historical. While things like that

are good and well, I’d rather look forward. And it occurs to me that for success, whether at an organization like AMT or a business like the one you work at, this phrase rings true: “It isn’t a sprint; it’s a marathon.” And marathons are something I know more than a little about. When I was young, I engaged in any sport that involved a ball, and I didn’t have much interest in running. That lasted until a work assignment for an automation company took me to Germany years later. While there, my wife ran for exercise, and I joined her a few times … but running aimlessly wasn’t for me. Maybe it was my engineering mindset, but I needed a goal. This led me to racing – and a reason to run. I signed up for a 10K. Then a half marathon. A full marathon. Before long, I’d done a couple dozen marathons. I decided that if I could run 26 miles, I could run 50 miles. So, I signed up for a 50-miler. At the beginning of that race, another participant asked me, “Are you doing the 50 or the 100?” After a couple of 50s, I started 100s. I’m not a gifted runner but a committed one. When you get into ultra-running – such as 100-mile races in the mountains between 10,000 and 14,000 feet of elevation, on rocks, in mud, and in all sorts of weather – there are things you need to do to prepare. Many of the lessons I’ve learned in order to develop the capability to run for 30 hours straight (yes, you read that right) can apply to the undertakings we face every day in our jobs. Whether it is sitting at our desks or walking the shop floor, there are things we need to do to prepare ourselves to reach the goal – and then to keep at it. Goal For me, running is about the goal I’ve set to take that extra step, to go that extra mile. Literally. Similarly, a company must be motivated by more than just money. There’s nothing wrong with making money, and you’re not going to be in business if you don’t, but something bigger must motivate you and your team – developing the best equipment, solving an “unsolvable” manufacturing problem, doing something that hasn’t be done before. Motivation matters.

Douglas K. Woods President AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology

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2022 Upcoming Events Important manufacturing technology dates and events to bookmark

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AMT 120 Years On: Where It Is – and Going by Gary S. Vasilash

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The Big Picture Smartforce Manufacturing Technology Careers

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IMTS+ Hot Show Recap by Michelle Edmonson

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MT Community Reconnects at IMTS 2022 by Peter Eelman

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Workforce: Keeping Pace With a Changing Economy and Emerging Technologies by Greg Jones

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Affordable IEMs and Accessible Inspection by Stephen LaMarca

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Is the COVID Setback a Setup for an Industry Comeback? by Chris Chidzik

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Manufacturing Matters Check in for the highlights, headlines, and hijinks that matter to manufacturing. These lean news items keep you updated on the latest developments.

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Consider a Workflow and Not Just a Single Technology Despite the industry looking to harvest value from new, faster, and more efficient technologies, no one technology will truly drive a company to their goals. All the advanced manufacturing technologies are workflow improvements. Additive manufacturing (AM) is a prime example. By its definition, AM is the process of growing, post-processing, and finishing. Automation can significantly increase throughput by expanding upstream and downstream of the operation/machine. Metrology improvements are gained from managing data flows and analytics. Is a shift from 3-axis to 3-plus axis in your plan? Consider the CAM to match the capabilities and the inspection techniques to reach these features. Going to high-speed machining? Are the pre- or post-operations within the required TAKT time? As manufacturers explore new technologies at upcoming exhibition events, one question to consider is: What can I improve pre- and post- this operation? JOLTS Data Set in the News The “Great Resignation” has made big news in recent years as a record number of people left their jobs during the pandemic, peaking at 4.53 million in March 2022. This data is easy to see in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey report (JOLTS), which tracks U.S. job vacancies, hires, and separations. During this time, a combination of approximately $5 trillion in government stimulus and unprecedented low-interest rates increased personal savings and financial asset prices dramatically. With increased financial security, many households reevaluated their work-life balance, sped up retirement, and opted for new careers. The JOLTS data indicates this trend may be over, as job openings and voluntary separations have decreased since the March 2022 high. Visit the following link to explore the data set yourself. fred.stlouisfed.org/searchresults?st=JOLTS INTELLIGENCE The Onshoring Project Is Here To Help In the wake of ongoing global supply chain disruptions, AMT and a consortium of North American innovators, practitioners, and supply chain experts from across the manufacturing industry launched The Onshoring Project. During IMTS 2022, The Onshoring Project hosted the inaugural Smarter Sourcing Symposium. Consortium members and supply chain leaders shared strategies for sounder and more financially beneficial North American part production. OEMs, tier suppliers, and contract manufacturers alike benefited from firsthand demonstrations and panel discussions on new tools and proven techniques for leaner, more agile, more profitable domestic sourcing. Specific tools and topics covered included Manufacturing Critical-Path Time (MCT), Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and Supply Chain Interoperability Specification (SCIS). SUPPLY CHAIN – THE ONSHORING PROJECT MTUniversity: Outsource Your Sales Training to AMT AMT’s Smartforce Development team launched a new, digital career fair model at the Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2022. There were tower signs in Student Summit exhibitors’ booths and throughout IMTS that displayed the new Smartforce Career Connections brand, participating exhibitors’ logos, and a QR code that linked directly to the “Careers” page of each exhibiting company. Community college, technical college, college, and university students nearing graduation were able to use their smartphone camera to connect directly with each company’s posted job openings using the QR codes. Students explored hundreds of job openings for robotics technicians, field service technicians, and more from the exhibitors who participated in this initiative. For more information, visit IMTS.com/smartforce, as these QR codes will be posted online as well. SMARTFORCE

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Globe-trotting With AMT One hundred twenty years. Four generations. An impressive amount of time for an organization to represent and support your industry. Equally noteworthy are the 30-plus years we have been helping members sell into foreign markets. Toward the end of the 1980s, Al Moore, AMT’s then-president and former chairman, and the AMT board were looking for a way to assist members in a hot, new market: the former Soviet Union. An office was set up in Zurich due to Swiss neutrality, and a local national was hired to travel back and forth on behalf of members. Since then, AMT has set up offices and Tech Centers in China, Mexico, India, Brazil, and Europe and helped more than 350 members increase export sales through a variety of products and services. Recently, geopolitics and the manufacturing supply chain have shifted the opportunity landscape. So, where next? We have ideas and a focus, but we’d also like to hear from you about emerging international markets you may be interested in pursuing. Program Funding Center Stage in Washington Before the August congressional recess, Congress adopted the bipartisan Chips and Science Act of 2022 (CHIPS+). CHIPS+ includes more than $52 billion in funding to boost semiconductor production in the United States. In addition, it authorizes $102 billion over five years for science and technology efforts at the National Science Foundation, departments of Commerce and Energy, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). These authorized programs, several of which benefit manufacturers, must be funded either with existing money or through the appropriations process. Now that Congress is back in Washington, appropriations are next up on the agenda. So far, the House has approved a package of six of the 12 funding bills, while the Senate has passed none. Given the work that still needs to be done and the elections on the horizon, it’s likely that Congress will continue existing funding levels until after the midterms. That means it may be a while until the full benefits of CHIPS+ are realized. ADVOCACY

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AMT 120 Years On: Where It Is – and Going Anniversaries are a time of stock taking. And as AMT hits 120 years, it’s bullish about the future. It was the year of the first college football bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl, Michigan vs. Stanford, with the Wolverines so dominant (49-0) that the organizers in Pasadena skipped football matchups for the next 13 years. Yet clearly, the Rose Bowl has endured. The first dedicated movie theater opened in Los Angeles that year, the Electric Theater. Its opening feature was “Capture of the Biddle Brothers,” produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company – yes, as in Thomas. The film industry hasn’t looked back. That year Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to ride in a car – an electric vehicle – a Columbia Electric Victoria. And here we are, 120 years on, and EVs are back in a big way. (President Joe Biden after driving a fully electric Ford F-150 Lightning on a track in Dearborn: “This sucker is quick.”) 1902 was the year that the National Machine Tool Builders’ Association (NMTBA) was BY GARY S. VASILASH CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

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established, an organization dedicated to what were then the elements of advanced manufacturing technology, including milling machines and lathes, grinders, and presses. A quarter century later, in 1927, the first National Machine Tool Builders’ Exposition was held in Cleveland, Ohio. Although the 20th century saw two world wars, the Great Depression, and a series of social, economic, and political upheavals, the association, like the Rose Bowl, has endured. Milling machines have morphed into machining centers, lathes into turning centers, grinders to an array of types and configurations, and presses to highly precise forming lines, always advancing. Manufacturing technologies have become the means by which industries like automotive can make the transformation from internal combustion to full electrification. NMTBA transformed into AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology in 1996; the National Machine Tool Builders’ Exposition became IMTS in 1972, first as the International Machine Tool Show and now as the International Manufacturing Technology Show. It hasn’t looked back. The Fundamentals Despite profound change, some fundamentals are still upheld by the association after 120 years, like cultivating a community of people who are invested in manufacturing technologies to get together to share knowledge. AMT has established itself as a hub for industry intelligence and industry advocacy, providing information to both industry participants and the political sphere, and it moves that information into educational and training resources to help the community prosper. Regardless of conditions, AMT has always been focused on today and tomorrow to help its members move forward – and

as a consequence of their moving forward, helped the country advance in an increasingly competitive world.

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National prosperity is created, not inherited. It does not grow out of a country’s natural endowments, its labor pool, its interest rates, or its currency’s value, as classical economics insists. A nation’s competitiveness depends on the capacity of its industry to innovate and upgrade. Companies gain advantage against the world’s best competitors because of pressure and challenge. They benefit from having strong domestic rivals, aggressive home-based suppliers, and demanding local customers. – Michael E. Porter “The Competitive Advantage of Nations” Amber Thomas is vice president of advocacy at AMT. As such, she is involved in promoting the importance of manufacturing technology throughout government. While the political class seemingly has greater interest in the metaverse than a tangible world improved by manufacturing, Thomas says that many in Washington understand the ongoing importance of making

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things in the United States. “There has always been a focus on manufacturing in the Department of Defense,” she says, and there was a big boost given to manufacturing during the Obama administration when the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation was established. This organization includes industry, academia, and federal and state governments, with the objective of advancing U.S. technological leadership in a variety of fields. Nine institutes were established during that administration: • America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (Youngstown, Ohio) • Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (Chicago, Illinois) • Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (Detroit, Michigan) • Power America (Raleigh, North Carolina) • Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (Knoxville, Tennessee) • American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (Rochester, New York) • Next Flex, the Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute (San Jose, California) • Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (Cambridge, Massachusetts) • Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (Los Angeles, California) Since then, there have been the addition of: • Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) • BioFab USA (Manchester, New Hampshire) • Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (St.

Paul, Minnesota) • The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (San Antonio, Texas) • The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (Newark, Delaware) • Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions (Rochester, New York) • Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment Institute (New York, New York) Each of these is meant to advance the capabilities of not only large corporations, Thomas explains, but to help small companies get a handle on emerging technologies and a workforce that can help with their deployment. Thomas says that the Trump administration “came out with a strategy for technological dominance around the world and for national security that included a list of critical technologies.” Advanced manufacturing was part of that list. “The Biden administration updated the list and broke down the items into specific categories,” Thomas adds. There are 19 “critical and emerging technologies” (CETs) on the list, ranging from advanced computing to space technologies and systems. The advanced manufacturing CET is subdivided into: • Additive manufacturing • Clean, sustainable manufacturing

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manufacturing and building the workforce may cause some disagreement about the details, but manufacturing has consistently had bipartisan support because there is a recognition of the importance of manufacturing to the country, both economically and security-wise.” She points out that “There is a real understanding that manufacturing is a key to the future.” And AMT continues to work to lock in that understanding of the importance of manufacturing. Creating the Tools So what will the next few years look like in the realm of manufacturing technology as the 120th year of AMT gives way to 121, 122 … and beyond? Tim Shinbara, AMT chief technology officer, keeps his finger on the pulse of manufacturing today and his eye on the horizon of what’s to come. Companies achieve competitive advantage through acts of innovation. – Michael E. Porter Metal cutting seems likely to be advanced by improvements in spindles, cutting tools, and f ixtures, and Shinbara emphasizes that while improvements will certainly continue in those areas, what will be more important is that the elements will be connected by data. According to him, this data will enable the use of virtual simulations before any cutting is performed, leading to consistently accomplishing “first-part right” and “one-and-done” machining. Such simulations are made possible by using the vast data accumulated from actual, physical machining – gained through sensors on machines – that is processed to create part and process models that are virtual analogues of the real world, aka “digital twins.” Metal forming may see some significant changes, Shinbara suggests, both in terms of materials being formed – an increase in the number of exotics, generally machined – as well as in tooling: robots will perform toolless forming operations, driven by machine learning algorithms. (As you can see from just these two metals-related processes, digital tools and methods play a huge role in manufacturing: Want to know what “smart manufacturing” is? That’s a big part of it.) Additive manufacturing, of course, will continue to advance: “It will become better, quicker, and faster. There will be more additive manufacturing in the world.” Part of this, Shinbara explains, will be the result of digital tools, as in the ability to precisely model things like the interaction of the beam with the material. Metals will be a much bigger part of additive, including refractorymaterials, which will find increased use in hypersonic applications (and know that hypersonics is one of the aforementioned CETs).

publish/subscribe model (the publisher is a device with a specific set of capabilities that sends out a message regarding what it can do; depending on the required task, other devices “subscribe” to those capabilities). Sensors – vision, in particular – will become more ubiquitous and more useful, thanks to machine learning and AI. There will be an increase in the number of cobots involved in assembly operations. Controls will become more intuitive. Programs will be more about features and functions than G-codes. The controls themselves are going to be more like thin clients, with some things resident onboard in memory (e.g., there will be local functionality like conditionals to check for real-time tool breakage) while more of the information will be in the cloud. However, Shinbara notes, there will have to be increased consideration of cybersecurity at both network and control levels: “We will need edge devices with cyber protection.” Ultimately, nations succeed in particular industries because their home environment is the most forward-looking, dynamic, and challenging. – Michael E. Porter While manufacturing seemed to be ebbing in importance in the United States some 20 years ago, AMT President Douglas K. Woods points out that there has been a massive reversal in the past two years, particularly when the pandemic made it clear that global supply chains are far more fragile than anyone had anticipated. “Reshoring, near-shoring, direct foreign investments – all of these are up significantly,” Woods says, pointing out that companies are recognizing the importance of having manufacturing operations closer to where the consumption of those products is – rather than having those products in a country on the other side of the planet that is susceptible to lockdowns, or on a cargo ship in an overwhelmed port. Woods says that every couple of years, there tends to be the emergence of a new technology or technique that becomes a core part of manufacturing. And for 120 years AMT has been facilitating – through advocacy, community, education, exhibitions, and more – competitive manufacturing in America.

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FIELD SERVICE TECHNICIANS/ENGINEERS AND INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS Field service technicians and engineers install, maintain, and repair the mechanical and electronic functions of manufacturing technology equipment and tools. Often, they travel from site to site for preventative maintenance and to solve problems that may arise.

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ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MACHINE OPERATOR Additive manufacturing machine operators independently set up additive manufacturing machines , monitor the build process as assigned by AM designers and AM materials technicians, and unload completed work .

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IMTS+ Hot Show Recap

IMTS+ delivered original programming all summer and had a whole lot of fun in the process. Here are some highlights from our summer shows. Visit IMTS.com anytime to view original content on demand and to find new shows to binge! BY MICHELLE EDMONSON VICE PRESIDENT, EXHIBITIONS Road Trippin’ with Steve Climb in our shiny new bus (van) and head back to school with techie Stephen LaMarca and his team for Season Two of “Road Trippin’ with Steve,” brought to you by EOS. This season, “Road Trippin’” explores all things bigger, better, and … beefier in Texas! From the birthplace of additive manufacturing at the University of Texas to a peek at the future of additive metal printing and mass production at EOS, Steve samples some Texas-sized innovation at every stop. Hit the road now. IMTS.com/RoadTrippin

Manufacturing Explorers Father-son duo Travis and Max Egan visit some key sites to the future of renewable energy in Season Two of “Manufacturing Explorers,” brought to you by Mazak. College student Max is in charge this time, and it’s all about sustainability and his internship with Burns & McDonnell! Join the Egans as they travel from a community solar array on a former superfund site to the world’s biggest battery storage facility – located in a converted power plant. Tune in and power up! IMTS.com/ManufacturingExplorers

FutureView “FutureView,” brought to you by ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions, focuses on the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The laboratory leverages collaboration to help the manufacturing industry adopt new processes, lower production costs, and create new products. Follow them as they use additive manufacturing to improve solar turbine blades, measure parts down to the nanometer scale, and create innovative machine tool bases using Big Area Additive Manufacturing. Check out the future. IMTS.com/FutureView

Smart(er) Shop Work smarter, not harder! AMT’s Ryan Kelly joins Adam Allard and the rest of the Autodesk Research team at the Autodesk Technology Center in Boston to find affordable digital solutions to chronic analog shop floor problems – in 10 minutes or less. Whether it’s harnessing air or taming liquids, each episode delivers solutions that make shops smarter. Watch digital solutions come to life. IMTS.com/SmarterShop

Profiles in Manufacturing “Profiles in Manufacturing” is a documentary-style program that tells the stories of the leaders, luminaries, and legends who have helped to shape and enhance the manufacturing industry. This season, we invite you to sit down with Al Moore awardees Brian J. Papke and Lee B. Morris and manufacturing advocate, speaker, and leader Aneesa Muthana to hear their fascinating stories. Get inspired. IMTS.com/Profiles

For questions about IMTS+, contact Michelle Edmonson at medmonson@AMTonline.org.

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MT Community Reconnects at IMTS 2022 We’re back, better, and implementing digital technology. BY PETER EELMAN CHIEF EXPERIENCE OFFICER

As people met each other with smiles, hugs, and handshakes, the connectedness of the manufacturing

Reaffirming the need to meet in person, the ratio of North American visitors to exhibitors increased by more than 10% compared to 2018, which had record-breaking attendance. The number of machines sold at the show was reminiscent of IMTS 1998, as people came to the show ready to invest in technology. “While the excitement and electricity were evident in every

community was the literal showstopper at IMTS 2022, which achieved a total registration of 86,307 visitors to its 1,212,806 million square feet of exhibit space representing 1,816 exhibitors.

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aisle of the show, what wasmost gratifying for the industry – and frankly the country – was the scope of commerce taking place,” says Douglas K. Woods, President of AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, which owns and produces IMTS. “Visitors sought out, and found, key technologies and productivity solutions to move their businesses forward.” The manufacturing community achieved something that hasn’t been done since World War II: it brought our industry back together after a worldwide disruption. We proved our resiliency, but we achieved much more. The digital technologies and other new products at this show aren’t just advanced: they are accessible, inclusive, and ready to be implemented by small and medium-sized businesses regardless of their workforce composition. Automation After the human connection, IMTS 2022 will be remembered as the show of a thousand robots, cobots, and other automated functions. “The automation systems at IMTS focused on ease-of deployment, iPhone-level programming simplicity, and affordability for small and medium-sized businesses,” says Tim Shinbara, chief technology officer at AMT. “Visitors could find new startup automation companies and spinoffs in every hall, and every one of them introduced solutions for high-mix, low volume applications to help job shops address their workforce and productivity issues.” For example, Ashley and Daniel Miller of ARC EDM, a three person shop in Muncie, Indiana, purchased a Titan Force EDM hole popper with automatic electrode changer at the show that can run unattended. “We want to quote on parts that have nearly 1,000 holes in them, and this machine will make us competitive,” says Daniel. Growing the Community IMTS 2022 also expanded its offering of educational and networking events, which attracted 7,647 people. More than 1,213 people, representing 400 companies and 52 countries, came to the three Women Make Manufacturing Move specialty programs. Three IMTS Job Shops specialty programs, presented by AMT, Modern Machine Shop magazine, and Additive Manufacturing magazine by Gardner Business Media, attracted 293 people and covered topics such as taking shops digital, 3D

printing, and benchmarking best practices. The inaugural IMTS Investor Forum, powered by AMT, was designed to help the investment community understand the opportunities in manufacturing. The AM4U Area, presented by Formnext, a new venue for IMTS, featured well-attended daily presentations on additive technology. AMT, Gardner Business Media, and the organizers of Formnext announced the launch of three new additive manufacturing events: Formnext Forum Austin (Aug. 28-30, 2023), the Formnext Forum co-located at IMTS 2024, and Formnext Chicago (April 8-10, 2025) at McCormick Place.

Motivating Technical Education and Careers Working closely with exhibitor partners, the Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2022 presented 24,000 square feet of interactive experiences and attracted 11,715 students. “We showed students how they could find themselves and provide them choices in the education-to-career pathway that they might not have considered,” says Greg Jones, vice president, Smartforce Development, AMT. One of those students was Saylor White, who wanted to visit IMTS with her father for a very special 10th birthday present. Father Todd White operates Todd White Metal Works, a small shop in Glendale, Arizona. “My favorite part of the show was the student area,” says Saylor. “You can only look at machines on the show floor, but here in the Student Summit, you can actually touch them. That can bring more kids into machining.” “The opportunity in manufacturing is for all of us,” says Andrew Crowe, founder of the New American Manufacturing Renaissance. “The collaborations have been crazy positive. This show is historic, and people are going to point to IMTS 2022 as a catalyst. It’s been amazing to see the people we’ve been talking to online and realize how important the human ecosystem is.” When the MT community connects and collaborates with friends to solve problems, what can we say but “Dang, we’re better together!” News, photos, and videos from IMTS 2022 will continue to be posted on IMTS.com. You can stay even more connected at IMTS+, our multimedia content destination.

If you have any questions about this information, please contact Peter at peelman@AMTonline.org.

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Workforce: Keeping Pace With a Changing Economy and Emerging Technologies The need for smarter in-house training solutions is now more vitally important than ever to U.S. manufacturing companies. BY GREG JONES VICE PRESIDENT, SMARTFORCE DEVELOPMENT, AMT What is keeping many small, medium, and large manufacturers from adopting smart digital manufacturing technologies? Is it a general reluctance to change in the context of dealing with day-to-day supply chain issues, uncertainty about the return on investment when bringing in new technologies, equipment, and processes, or a general lack of knowledge about new and emerging technologies? It’s all those reasons and more, as well as workforce development – or, rather, the lack of available workers across existing job functions, not to mention for new jobs brought on by new technologies, which plays a major role in decisions about technology adoption.

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AMT – The Association For Manufacturing’s mission on behalf of our members is to advance emerging and transformational technologies. Part of that mission surrounds workforce development, or what we’ve referred to as “Smartforce Development” for more than the past decade.

• Improve perceptions of careers in manufacturing that will incentivize families to consider dual credit programs and “earn-and-learn” apprenticeships as a method for reducing dependence on student loans. • Increase the adoption of smart industry-recognized standards and credentials using a central repository to track digital badges, microcredentials, certificates, and degrees using blockchain-type technology that provides companies with a method of finding workers on demand who possess the transformational technology competencies that are in demand. Industry Advisory Councils We have consistently advocated for AMT members to be active on industry advisory councils in schools in your local area, and we hope that you will advocate for our policy

Hiring for fit also means that we become more open and inclusive in our hiring practices to seek out underrepresented individuals and communities.

The AMT Manufacturing Mandate Recently, the Advocacy group at AMT published an update to the Manufacturing Mandate. This document is directed to Capitol Hill because it demands national attention and is designed to put forth our industry’s vision of a solution set to advance the cause of U.S. manufacturing on the global stage.

recommendations at the local, state, and federal levels. Doing so is particularly important now, as schools have been disrupted over the past couple of

The three key pillars of the AMT Manufacturing Mandate include recommendations around harnessing the power of manufacturing technology to spur innovation; injecting predictability and stability into tax, trade, and regulatory systems; and transforming the workforce into a Smartforce that is skilled in manufacturing technologies. Smartforce Recommendations Where Smartforce Development is concerned, we have made these key recommendations in the Manufacturing Mandate: • Develop federal policies that encourage the hiring of additional career and technical education (CTE) teachers. • Develop federal policies that incentivize schools to purchase manufacturing technology equipment for high school, community college, and engineering school programs.

years, resulting in an even greater skills gap that our industry, along with most every other industry in the country, is challenged in overcoming. To that end, we are seeing that more and more manufacturers are hiring for cultural fit, as compared to simply recruiting and hiring for specific skills and competencies, since the gap is so large between our industry’s open

positions and the number of qualified people coming out of technical school programs. That thinking is clear-minded.