As manufacturers lean more and more into automation, the only way to measure the success of their efforts is with … measurement. Investments in metrology, like other forms of automation, contribute to the overall efficiency ...

Manufacturing startups have a few things to consider before choosing an investment partner, according to experts in the recent webinar “Raising Venture Capital for Industrial Technology Businesses 101.”

Charting Where We Have Been and What May Lie Ahead.

If this were a movie, you might want to head for the exit. But sticking around – which may not be easy – can be rewarding.

Given the recent election, it seems timely to build upon some of this analysis by examining what effect, if any, elections may have on machinery orders, as measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published ...

We all know that economically things are at a high level of uncertainty. Inflation, interest rate increases, continuing supply chain snags, rising material costs, employment challenges. I’m not telling you anything that you don’t know ...

Despite a mild recession next year, 2023 does offer opportunities for U.S. machine tools. Learn more from economist Mark Killion, a speaker at the recent MTForecast conference.

Read the top three takeaways from last week’s AMT event, MTForecast 2022, which featured economic forecasting and market data to help you make informed decisions for your manufacturing technology business.

In late July 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released the advanced Q2 gross domestic product (GDP) numbers, which showed the U.S. economy contracted at an annualized rate of 0.9%. While this was an improvement from the 1.6% annualized ...

To help support better economic analysis and sales forecasting for manufacturing technology companies, AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology is gathering economists to share data and insights at MTForecast, held Oct. 12-14 in St. Louis.