AMT’s Tech Team is turning photos into 3D assets and exploring how AI could make digital twins more accessible to manufacturers.
Watch drones take flight. Stand beside an AI-designed aircraft. Discover the digital backbone of smart manufacturing with MTConnect in the AMT ETC at IMTS 2026.
Right now, most IMTS exhibitors are focused on last-minute booth details. Those things matter, but the biggest factor to your success is much simpler: Do the right people show up at your booth, and do you collect the right leads to justify your investment?
The AM market is projected to reach $20.3 billion by 2030, but growth is shifting toward proven applications, production value, and disciplined investment.
Elite shops win more business and have better margins, and the difference isn’t that they’re bigger or better funded.
From global technology leaders and pioneering manufacturers to astronauts, investors, and innovators, the ETC and the IMTS+ Main Stage will feature the people shaping the future of manufacturing.
Some of the hottest inspiration in manufacturing streaming is IMTS+, the digital home of IMTS. Featuring international award-winning original programming, IMTS+ spotlights the people, processes, and ideas driving manufacturing forward.
At IMTS 2026, industrial AI moves from emerging trend to defining theme. It will be present across every building and discipline and, for the first time, the subject of its own dedicated arena and full-day conference.
In recent IMTS years, the September order bump has moderated, but the effects in the trailing months have been noticeably greater.
While “wait and see” may seem like an option to implement industrial AI, it could put you at a significant disadvantage to your competitors. “Try and do” is a better approach.