Benjamin Moses has worked in the design and manufacturing world for aerospace components for 16 years, developing new products and implementing new and lean processes for legacy products. Benjamin now works with AMT’s Manufacturing Technology team to gather information about the latest technology research, concepts, and trends. This includes academic research and the adoption of new technologies in manufacturing facilities.
Benjamin Moses has worked in the design and manufacturing world for aerospace components for 16 years, developing new products and implementing new and lean processes for legacy products. Benjamin now works with AMT’s Manufacturing Technology team to gather information about the latest technology research, concepts, and trends. This includes academic research and the adoption of new technologies in manufacturing facilities.
AMT Tech Trends: Know Your Bodience
Episode 134: Steve and Ben share their observations, insights, and takeaways from ProMat2025. Stephen provides a testbed update and a realization that robot programming is easy… until you have to program the robot to physically interact with another thing.
AMT Tech Report: Issue #348
Innovating requires iterating. Bipedal robots. Are magnets life? Automation is a fast market. Security is for everyone.
Developing Next-Gen Manufacturing Through R&D
Technology development partners can take multiple forms. These include universities, Manufacturing USA institutes, the Department of Energy’s national laboratories, and AMT’s research and education affiliates.
AMT Tech Trends: Hod Dog Standards
Episode 133: Elissa dives straight in with 3D printing 4D materials. The team voices their loathing of daylight savings. Steve wonders how it’s 2025 and hot dogs are still not the appropriate length with respect to the buns.
AMT Tech Trends: Death by Asteroid
Episode 132: The Tech Friends open with older movies they’d like to see remade with some of the same actors and producers. Elissa reports on the implementation of AI in 911 dispatch.
AMT Tech Trends: Squabble Up
Episode 131: Ben and Steve report on their trip to SHOT Show 2025. Ben hard transitions to asking about Steve’s first experience with Pilates. Elissa announces the AMT Tech Trends podcast has been placed as the #14 podcast in the manufacturing industry.
From Sports to Manufacturing: VR Training Changes the Game
While NFL teams usually limit their rookies’ play, quarterback Jayden Daniels led the perpetually inept Washington Commanders deep into the playoffs and rewrote record books. His secret? Virtual reality training. Imagine what it can do for manufacturing.
Emerging Technology: Accelerators and Barriers
Factors like reshoring and the expansion of the defense, medical, and space sectors drive manufacturing's adoption of emerging technologies like automation, additive manufacturing, generative AI, and digital twins. What are the barriers – or accelerators?
AMT Tech Trends: When In Rome, Be American
Episode 129: Steve shares some updates with the testbed’s vision system. The Tech Friends discuss how to handle the snow and their 2025 goals. Elissa reports Italy’s efforts in 3D printing using marble waste.
AMT Tech Report: Issue #334
Robots in the wild. Path to lights-out. War games and advanced manufacturing. Roll your own 3D printer. New metals.