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08 March 2010March 8, 2010 - USMTC News Release for January Manufacturing Technology ConsumptionJanuary U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $130.96 million, according to AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association, and AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the USMTC program, was down 40.3% from December but up 26.2% from the total of $103.77 million reported for January 2009. (more) |
05 March 2010Wind Blade Manufacturing - Call for Concept PapersNCMS is partnering with the Department of Energy (DoE) to identify and develop critical manufacturing technologies vital to the affordable manufacturing of alternative energy systems. (more) |
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05 March 2010Webinar Recording: Industrial Selling & the Emerging GenerationsRobert W. Wendover from The Center for Generational Studies discusses how your sales team can learn to effectively engage and sell to the emerging generations, or Millennials. Topics covered include:
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05 March 2010e-News from Washington (March 5, 2010)The President continued his push for health care reform this week as he called for an up or down vote on legislation in the coming weeks. Congressman Sander Levin (D-MI) took the reins of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, at least temporarily, as embattled Chairman Charlie Rangel stepped aside amid ethics investigations. Four Democratic Senators called for tougher "Buy American" rules when it comes to stimulus funds, while a bipartisan group of Senators wrote President Obama urging implementation of a national Manufacturing Policy. Lastly, the $15 billion jobs bill, which includes a one-year extension of enhanced Sec. 179 expensing, narrowly passed the House. The Senate is expected to approve it next week and send it to the President for signature. (more) |
24 February 2010Year-End 2009 Industrial Lasers Down 45 Percent from 2008Orders of industrial laser equipment and systems in 2009 are reported at $259.9 million, a decrease of 45.3 percent from 2008, according to AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology. The report compiled from 19 manufacturers and distributors shows that the value of orders of CO2 lasers fell 47.6 percent. Nd:YAG orders showed a decline of 17.9 percent. CO2 orders totaled $229.3 million, and Nd:YAG lasers totaled $30.3 million. (more) |
19 February 2010IMTS Webinar Recording: PR - Working with the MediaLearn how to use public relations to market your products and services. Press releases, conferences and a good review of how to develop a line of communications with the metalworking media.Presenters: Mary Uhrina, IMTS PR Consultant and John Krisko, AMT Director-Exhibitions (more) |
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USMTC is a joint program run by AMT and AMTDA to provide the most up-to-date statistics in the U.S., Mexican, and Canadian machine tool market.
MTConnect is an open communication standard that provides the capability to pass data from machine tools to higher level systems for further processing using the XML based standard.
