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Quality at Speed: How Hendrick Motorsports Redefines Manufacturing Performance
Visit Hendrick Motorsports, one of the most advanced operations in motorsports, to learn how their approach to quality, performance, and innovation isn’t just about building faster race cars. It’s about applying the principles of modern manufacturing to environments where failure is not an option – and where every tenth of a second counts. Read full article.
Tariff Impacts on Manufacturing Tech Survey: 5 Critical Takeaways
Tariffs remain a top concern across the manufacturing technology sector. AMT’s research team surveyed 59 member-company executives to assess the ongoing impact. The data, published in the “Tariff Impacts on Manufacturing Technology: 2025 Q2 Spot Survey” report, focuses on the second quarter of 2025 and reveals more than just price increases. Executives shared additional concerns, including operational stress, strategic uncertainty, and a need for sustained advocacy. Read full article.
News You Can Use
Reshoring and Training the US Workforce: Industry Leaders Who Started as Apprentices — Part 4: In this installment of our series, you will meet Jason Woodard, Manuel Merkt, and Lt. Gen. William Signius Knudsen, who all started as apprentices. Learn how apprenticeship training influenced their outstanding leadership and shaped their work. Learn more.
From Tooling to Tubes: The Evolving Promise of DED With Melanie Lang: The “Tom and Lonnie Chat” crew welcomes back Melanie Lang, co-founder of FormAlloy, for an insightful discussion on the state and future of direct energy deposition additive manufacturing, FormAlloy’s new wire module, their AI-free PATH system that enables automated toolpath generation without CAD models – ideal for repair and remanufacturing, and much more. Learn more.
Speed: It’s Not Just a Spec!: Spec sheets may boast identical rapid traverse rates, but real machine speed depends on more than numbers. In actual use, performance differences emerge from acceleration surge, chip-to-chip time, and control system capability. Want a CNC machine’s true speed? Go beyond the spreadsheet and test it. Learn more.
Member Meetup: AMT Meetups are back! Join professionals from your local manufacturing technology community for casual, after-hours networking events in a city near you. These aren’t just gatherings – they’re community boosters. Find a Meetup near you.
By the Numbers
Manufacturing Technology Orders on an Upswing in First Quarter of 2025
Despite a massive increase of private investment in equipment in the first quarter of 2025, orders of manufacturing technology fell by 5.7% from the previous quarter. However, the decline was not significant enough to derail the upward momentum of the industry that began with IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show in September 2024.
Read what industries drove this rebound and the outlook for the remainder of 2025 in the latest USTMO Press Release.
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AMT Member Spotlight
From major awards for ECI Software Solutions to new leadership at Transor Filter USA, Lyndex-Nikken, and Cortex Engineered Solutions, plus a $5 million project call from America Makes – this issue has it all. Read more.
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