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AMT NEWS Archive - Quarter 3 2008 (July - September)

  • Targeting Technology - September 2008
     - MTConnect
     - SBIR/STTR funding opportunity

    Sep 09, 2008

  • Annual Meeting - September 2008
    During the Annual Meeting’s four days, from October 5-8, there are nearly 20 separate events that will bring AMT and NTMA members together, ranging from meals, receptions and social events to meetings, presentations and roundtable discussions.

    Sep 09, 2008

  • B11 Standards - September 2008
    AMT is pleased to announce that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved the newest addition to the B11 series of standards for machines, ANSI B11-2008 – General Safety Requirements Common to ANSI B11 Machines.

    Sep 09, 2008

  • AWM / MT wiring - September 2008
    At the recent B11 ASC meeting hosted by Liberty Mutual at their new Dover N.H. campus, one of our AMT members brought to participant’s attention the fact that the 2007 version of NFPA 79 actually prohibits the vast majority of AWM wiring and cables in favor of MT wiring

    Sep 09, 2008

  • Market Data Review - September 2008
     - Indicators are promising leading into IMTS
     - Workholding sales down in July
     - Producer Price and Wage Report
     - Foreign Trade Report - June 2008

    Sep 09, 2008

  • International Report - September 2008
    The Mystery: Why don’t all AMT members USE AMT’s global services whenever they can?

    Sep 09, 2008

  • Industry News - September 2008
    News from AMT members

    Sep 09, 2008

  • AMT staffers look forward to IMTS 2008 - September 2008
    IMTS provides a variety of learning opportunities.

    Sep 09, 2008

  • Global Service Committee - September 2008
    How do you know if you have a customer service problem or issue? What do your customers think of you?

    Sep 09, 2008

  • Global Marketing and Sales Committee - September 2008
    See the contract first — Define the full scope of the contract before offering a budgetary quote.

    Sep 09, 2008

  • Global Forecasting and Marketing Conference - September 2008
    One of the many topics at the Conference will be the amazing amount of development and foreign direct investment being experienced in Russia. The country is rich in gas and oil and worldwide demand is bringing increasing wealth to the region.

    Sep 09, 2008

  • Federal Facts - September 2008
    Challenges for the next President — The next President, whether he is a Republican or a Democrat, will be forced to make decisions and create legislative support for a number of very unpleasant choices, including higher taxes or severe spending cuts, higher energy costs, and a changed perspective regarding how our nation interacts with the world.

    Sep 09, 2008

  • Business Development - September 2008
    The management of innovation: commercializing profitable innovations — Commercialization is the hard work of getting your profitable idea turned into a product or service you can deliver and invoice; or finding out that the product cannot be built to your specification, or cannot be produced within your targeted total delivered costs.

    Sep 09, 2008

  • AMTonline - September 2008
    NEW on AMTonline – TAGS to help you find exactly what you need

    Sep 09, 2008

  • Industry News - August 2008
    News from AMT members.

    Aug 11, 2008

  • Global Forecasting & Marketing Conference - August 2008
    AMT Members who want to stay informed about important events in China, Mexico, Central & Eastern Europe, and India do not have to travel overseas to find out during the month of October. Instead, on October 21 & 22, they can attend the 36th annual Global Forecasting & Marketing Conference.

    Aug 11, 2008

  • AMT Annual Meeting theme is Technology for the Future- August 2008
    An AMT tradition is evolving to bring even more networking and knowledge value to members – this year, the Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the National Tooling & Machining Association’s (NTMA) Fall Conference October 5-8 at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas.

    Aug 11, 2008

  • 2008 SkillsUSA Precision Machining Technology winners - August 2008
    The annual SkillsUSA Championships in Precision Machining Technology were held June 25-26, 2008, in Kansas City, Mo. More than 5,000 outstanding career and technical education students joined in the excitement of hands-on competition in 91 different trade, technical, and leadership fields.

    Aug 11, 2008

  • Global Service Committee - August 2008
    Finding solutions with AMT – An excerpt from the 2008 Annual Customer Service and Support Conference

    Aug 11, 2008

  • Lessons Learned - August 2008
    A small production precision machining company can still thrive in the USA.

    Aug 11, 2008

  • Business Development - August 2008
    The management of innovation: Identifying profitable ideas for your company — The winnowing of ideas means the ability to estimate the market potential for the suggested product of service, and to understand honestly whether your company has the capability to commercialize and distribute the product or service at a profit.

    Aug 11, 2008

  • ANSI B11 report and scheduled meetings - August 2008
    Two ANSI B11 standards writing subcommittees are about to begin a new revision cycle, B11.2 on Hydraulic Power Presses and B15.1 on Mechanical Power Transmission Apparatus.

    Aug 11, 2008

  • SBIR/STTR funding opportunities - August 2008
     - Since DoD SBIR is over $1 billion and DoD STTR is over $100 million it requires a concerted effort by DoD all year long to obligate that amount of money.

     - SBIR advice: listen, learn, and leverage

    Aug 11, 2008

  • Targeting Technology - August 2008
     - MTConnect Update
     - Your views reflected in U.S. export control
     - AMT's Global Technology Advisory Board (GTAB)
     - The changing face of innovation

    Aug 11, 2008

  • Market Data Review - August 2008
     - Making use of cancellation data
     - Workholding sales up in June
     - Producer Price & Wage Report
     - Foreign Trade Report - May 2008

    Aug 11, 2008

  • Federal Facts - August 2008
    It is ironic that at a time when increasing world trade has produced record growth rates among developing nations such as India, China, and Brazil, that the same trade has lost its momentum and some of its key constituencies in the United States.

    Aug 11, 2008

  • International Report - August 2008
    Raymond Laflamme, Worldwide Automotive Market Manager, Dukane Corporation – I.A.S. Division, reports on the AMT Transplant Trade Mission to Japan.

    Aug 11, 2008

  • Joint Committee Meeting - July 2008
    The joint meeting of the Show, Technology Issues, and Economics & Statistics committees, held May 29-31 in Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M., provided the opportunity for a briefing across all the committees on MTConnect and events at IMTS.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • AMT Affiliate Members - July 2008
    AMT Affiliate Members provide research and training programs.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Defense University Research Instrumentation Program - July 2008
    The Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), a subpart of the University Research Initiative (URI), is designed to improve upon the capabilities of U.S. universities to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • B11 Update - July 2008
     - Report on recent B11 Subcommittee meetings
     - Calendar of upcoming ANSI B11 standards meetings

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Targeting Technology - July 2008
     - MTConnect
     – an update
     - Linking science and state economies

    Jul 01, 2008

  • PMMI Guide to EU Regulations - July 2008
    This PMMI (Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute) Guide contains comments and clarifications on REACH, a European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Global Forecasting and Marketing Conference - July 2008
    MANA CEO Bryan Shirley will give AMT members some new ideas for expanding sales.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Market Data Review - July 2008
     - Do you feel like you are in a recession?
     - Workholding sales down in May
     - Producer Price and Wage Report
     - Foreign Trade Report - April 2008

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Global Service Committee - July 2008
    Finding solutions with AMT – An excerpt from the 2008 Annual Customer Service and Support Conference.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Lessons Learned - July 2008
    How to handle “Guarantee Payments” in China.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • AMT service engineer in Mexico - July 2008
    Service Engineering in AMT Mexico continues to grow – servicing new products and adding scope.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • International Report - Russia – July 2008
    Two major all-Russian technology exhibitions held in May.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Business Development - July 2008
    The management of innovation – From a management standpoint innovation has three key components: generating ideas, winnowing ideas, and new product commercialization.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Federal Facts - July 2008
    Obviously, the Democrats – indeed the Congress as a whole – are of two minds on this subject. They want to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. But at the same time they are responsive to voters’ concerns, and at the present time voters are most concerned about the spike in gas prices and the overall increase in energy costs.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • New AMT Membership Manager - July 2008
    Sarah E. Sebastian is the new Membership Manager for AMT-The Association For Manufacturing Technology, bringing more than seven years of association membership operations experience to AMT.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Annual Meeting - July 2008
    AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology is joining with the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) to host the 2008 NTMA Fall Conference and AMT Annual Meeting on Oct. 5-8 at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas.

    Jul 01, 2008

  • Feira da Mecanica - July 2008
    When in 2003 Goldman Sachs created the concept of BRIC (which predicted that Brazil, Russia, India and China would become the largest economies in the world by the year 2050), very few believed that Brazil would ever achieve that status. Well, now it seems a much more believable prediction.

    Jul 01, 2008


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