Kevin Bowers

2 weeks ago | amtonline.org | Christopher Chidzik |Kevin Bowers |Gary Vasilash

READ FULL PRESS RELEASEMcLean, Va. (June 18, 2025) — Shipments of cutting tools, measured by the Cutting Tool Market Report compiled in a collaboration between AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI), totaled $212.8 million in April 2025. Orders increased 2.7% from March 2025 but were down 2.8% from April 2024. Year-to-date shipments totaled $818.3 million, a drop of 5.1% from the same period in 2024.

3 weeks ago | amtonline.org | Stephen LaMarca |Kevin Bowers |Benjamin Moses |Gary Vasilash

Peter Eelman, the chief experience officer of AMT, is retiring after almost 30 years. Peter has, quite literally, spent the entirety of his 45-year career working on IMTS. On his first day at his first job, he was tasked with figuring out how to consolidate his company’s five divisions into one major booth for their display at IMTS 1980. Unbeknownst to him, that first step into the professional world would shape his career for nearly half a century.

3 weeks ago | amtonline.org | Catherine Ross |Kevin Bowers |Stephen LaMarca

We celebrate all kinds of manufacturing at AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, from the most cutting-edge smart automation to the humble, time-honored shuttle loom. And believe it or not, few things thread the needle between tradition and tech quite like denim. Yes, denim. You may know Toyota as one of the world’s top automakers, but did you know the company’s origin story begins with fabric – not fuel? Toyota’s founder, Sakichi Toyoda, was a textile machinery inventor.

1 month ago | amtonline.org | Kevin Bowers |Christopher Chidzik |Travis Egan |Gary Vasilash

For the most part, engineers and manufacturers focus on developing and producing things in a way that falls within the definition of “continuous improvement.”That is, they analyze the product being produced and look for ways to enhance it. Perhaps this means changing a feature or deploying a new material. But regardless of how the upgrade is achieved, it is still the same product, just upgraded.