If there's a rush on to enter into joint ventures, or even forĬhinese ownership of available machine tool builders (as gaining aįoothold on manufacturing technology), there is also a shakeout coming, Million vehicles per year by 2012, according to the Director of Recognizing the potential of this consuming and manufacturing giant.įor example, Chinese demand for automobiles is going to be about 10
AMT's first office was opened in 1993, early builders to penetrate the China market for manufacturing The newĬenter joins AMT's three representative offices in China-inīeijing, Shanghai, and a newly opened office in Guangzhou (Canton) in Offer AMT member companies space for machine demonstrations, trainingįacilities, spare parts storage, and service capabilities.
Located in the Waigaoquiao Free Trade Zone, the Center will The AMT itself has just opened a USA/Technology and Service Center Products builders for entree into its huge growing market. Work as well as the market most coveted by machine tool and related Will be a boom in the North American manufacturing sector unlikeĪnything we have seen in the last quarter century."Ĭhina, now far and away the largest consumer of machine tools, hasīecome both the destination for much of the low-cost volume outsourced Upheaval in the international manufacturing sector. As these market forces converge, they will create
Manufacturers to continue domination of U.S. manufacturers: "Shipping costs and the availability ofĪffordable raw materials will reduce the ability of overseas Technology, show owner and sponsor, sounded a note of optimism-at leastįor U.S. However, at the outset of the exposition and conference John B.īyrd III, president of AMT-The Association For Manufacturing manufacturing that the specter of outsourcing poses. That reality was best illustrated in the strong undercurrent feltīy attendees and exhibitors alike of the threats to North American and One nation is likely to hold an exclusive on manufacturing in theįuture, but there is a giant looming on the horizon. That increasingly are found in virtually every corner of the world. IMTS 2004 featured its usual distinctly international flavor withĮxhibitors from around the globe and visitors, representing industries Gravity powered vehicles out of junk in competition with one another.Īnd GE Fanuc Automation and AMT co-sponsored an Emerging TechnologyĬenter, which fired the imagination with sights and sounds of The Road, an opportunity for teams of visitors and students to build Little fun into the proceedings with the appearance of Junkyard Wars: On Was up (final total not available at this writing). Not so at this year's edition which held forth inĬhicago's McCormick Place from September 8 through 15.
Manufacturing technology (machine tools and all the attendant devicesĪnd software that make them function so efficiently). Preceded the worst years in living memory for investment in advanced Polar opposite to the last biennial edition of IMTS in 2002 that
Positive vibes and enthusiasm that were much in evidence. Metalworking manufacturing industries of every stripe could feed off the If you weren't,Īttending the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2004) was the smart thing to do if only because attendees representing