Advanced Workholding Technology (AWT) Group & Committee

The Advanced Workholding Technology (AWT) group is devoted to:

Developing and implementing programs to increase communication within the workholding industry, end users and with machine tool builders
Working with established organizations in the development of engineering standards and to improve product safety
Accessing engineering and sales data pertinent to workholding design and manufacturing.

Participation in the group provides an excellent way to meet and communicate with industry peers and to promote programs for increasing communication among machine builders, users and workholding builders/suppliers. (Formerly Workholding Product Group - WPG)

Join the conversation on LinkedIn

Current Committee Members:

CHAIRMAN:

Mr. Mike Powell, Chairman
President
Master Work-Holding, Inc.
Morganton, NC

Members:

Mr. Clifford Wesley Allen, III
President
Lexair/Production Dynamics
Lexington, KY

Mr. Steve Kane
Sales & Marketing Manager
Kurt Manufacturing – Industrial Products
Minneapolis, MN

Mr. Timothy Allen
COO
Suburban Tool, Inc.
Auburn Hills, MI

Mr. Frank Meiland
Business Leader
Enerpac
Menomonee Falls, WI

Mr. David Bishop
General Manager
Mitee-Bite Products Inc.
Ctr Ossipee, NH

Mr. Richard R. Porter
President
TE-CO
Union. OH

Mr. Mike Cayley, Sr.
President
MIDACO Corp.
Elk Grove Village, IL

Mr. Doug Reed
Sales Manager
Abbott Workholding Products
Manhattan, KS

Mr. Paul DeFeo
Vice Pesident, Chief Engineer
Northfield Precision Instrument Corp.
Island Park, NY

Mr. Robert J. Rubenstahl
Group Manager
Jergens Way
Cleveland,OH

Mr. Charles S. DeLonghi
General Manager
Buck Chuck Company
Traverse City, MI

Mr. William Sepanik
Group General Manager
ITW Workholding
Traverse City, MI

Mr. Gordon J. Duerr III
Vice President Sales & Marketing
Logansport Matsumoto Co., Inc.
Logansport, IN

Mr. William Spooner
Vice President
PowerHold Incorporated
Middlefield. CT

Mr. Troy Estes
President
Vektek, Inc.
Emporia, KS 66801

Mr. Timothy Sweny
Co-President
Modern Industries, Inc.
Erie, PA

Mr. Justin Gordon
President
Fixtureworks
Fraser, MI

Mr. Eric S. Weber
Vice President
Positrol Workholding
Cincinnati, OH

Mr. Al Hamdan
Global Marketing Leader-Workholding
Enerpac Production Automation
Milwaukee, WI

Mr. Gerard Vacio
Product Manager Workholding Systems
BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc.
Hoffman Estates, IL

Mr. Steve Hartung
Workholding Group Manager
SCHUNK, Inc.
Morrisville, NC

Mr. Timothy Winard
Chief Operating Officer
Kitagawa-NorthTech, Inc.
Schaumburg, IL

Mr. Malcolm Mason
Business Development Director
AMT - The Association For Mfg Technology
McLean, VA

Holding Forth - published in CUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING Magazine

Rotary and Prismatic Advanced Workholding Technology Product Matrix

Lists AMT member companies that produce workholding equipment