After two decades in the durable goods manufacturing markets, Travis Egan joined AMT as Vice President – Business Development in early 2019. At AMT, he is responsible for membership, product development, and revenue generation. Travis particularly enjoys visiting advanced manufacturing technology suppliers and their customers, the discrete parts manufacturers, to learn about technologies and strategies they’ve adopted to succeed.
After two decades in the durable goods manufacturing markets, Travis Egan joined AMT as Vice President – Business Development in early 2019. At AMT, he is responsible for membership, product development, and revenue generation. Travis particularly enjoys visiting advanced manufacturing technology suppliers and their customers, the discrete parts manufacturers, to learn about technologies and strategies they’ve adopted to succeed.
3D Printing Hits Hollywood’s Red Carpet
Through the efforts of YouTube show “3D Printing Nerd,” the head of Optimus Primal, a Transformers character, has been fabricated from Inconel 718. To engage fans at home, a file to print an Optimus Primal head is now available...
Minds Blown, Doors Opened During Trade Mission
AMT coordinated a three-day trade mission for a delegation from CECIMO, an umbrella organization serving the common interests and values of the European machine tool and related manufacturing technology industries ...
Bill Herman to Lead AMT Member Services
Bill Herman, currently AMT’s director of international events and sponsorship, will be assuming responsibility for membership services when Member Services Vice President Steve Lesnewich retires in June.
Steve Lesnewich to Retire June 1
We are sad to announce that Member Services Vice President Steve Lesnewich will be retiring from AMT on June 1, 2021. Steve joined AMT in 2012 as vice president of industry engagement from the American Machine Tools Distributor Association (AMTDA)...
2020: How did the Pandemic Change the Manufacturing Industry?
2020 has been a year like no other. AMT worked hard to keep its members informed with the most important information and news in the industry and launched a news blog and weekly e-newsletter to make the information timely and actionable...
The Road to Spark
As the coronavirus pandemic made it increasingly clear that IMTS would not be possible this year, AMT and Gardner Business Media (GBM), together with Map Your Show (MYS), went into high gear, reimagining every aspect of the IMTS experience to make...
How Innovative Partnerships and Policies Bolster U.S. Manufacturing
The current pandemic and the U.S. economic, manufacturing, and supply chain vulnerabilities it has exposed have led to a renewed concern among many business leaders, policymakers, and economists about ways to strengthen the U.S. industrial base...
Velo3D: Freeing AM from Support Structure
With the emergence of many new business models in the manufacturing technology (MT) ecosystem, AMT spoke to several member companies to learn about their paths to success. We learned that each of these innovators identified a need in the market that was...
The Digital Twin and the Digital Thread in Manufacturing
The digital twin and digital thread are both slowly becoming part of the manufacturing technology ecosystem. However, while the digital twin already has use cases, the digital thread is more of a goal than a reality today. The digital twin is a digital...
Announcing a Department of Commerce Additive Manufacturing Trade Mission for AMT Members
The U.S. Commercial Service, the trade promotion arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, is organizing an Additive Manufacturing (AM)-focused trade mission to France, Germany, and Poland, November 18–22...