What Exactly is "Manufacturing" Technology? (American Machinist)
Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast
- Published
- September 29, 2026
- Duration
- 21:13
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 14, 2026
Discusses Recently, over 91,000 manufacturing professionals roamed vast exhibit halls in pursuit of technologi…
Summary
Recently, over 91,000 manufacturing professionals roamed vast exhibit halls in pursuit of technologies to make their enterprises more efficient, productive, competitive, or connected. Whether they realized it or not - all of them were looking for “manufacturing technology.” Why is this label so elastic? At IMTS 2026, 1,788 exhibitors filled 1.17 million s…
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Recently, over 91,000 manufacturing professionals roamed vast exhibit halls in pursuit of technologies to make their enterprises more efficient, productive, competitive, or connected. Whether they realized it or not - all of them were looking for “manufacturing technology.” Why is this label so elastic? At IMTS 2026, 1,788 exhibitors filled 1.17 million square feet of floor space with new applications in machining, programming, software, toolmaking, automation, plus networking, product design, m