From a session at OMEP's Manufacturing the Future Summit, January 14, 2014. By: Douglas K. Woods, President of AMT (The Association for Manufacturing Technology)

1. MT Trends
Douglas K. Woods
President

3. AMT represents and
promotes the U.S.
manufacturing technology
industry. Our members are
continuously innovating
and improving productivity
for manufacturing.

4. What is manufacturing
technology?

5. MT as an Economic Driver
2013
2012
2011

6. Segue:[Elements that will
keep us growing]

7. Energy Advantage
Source: Oxford Economics

8. Labor Costs
Unit labor costs in manufacturing in US$
2000 Q1 = 100
Index Value
China
U.S.
Source: Oxford Economics

9. Innovation Ecosystem
The U.S. ranks #1 in
Gross Expenditures on R&D
Access to Funding and
Entrepreneurship Culture
Millions of U.S.$
429,143.0
in Ernst & Young’s 2013 Annual G20
Entrepreneurship Barometer.
Source: Inc. online
208,171.8
146,537.3
93,055.5
59,890.0
Source: National Science Foundation
Top Engineering Schools
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
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7)
8)
9)
10)
MIT
Stanford
University of California, Berkeley
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Imperial College (U.K.)
Nanyang Technology University (Singapore)
National University of Singapore
Northwestern University
Technical University of Denmark
Source: United Nations University

10. Reshoring/FDI

11. U.S. Manufacturing Market Size
Source: World Bank

12. Segue:[What’s holding us back?]

13. White House
Congress

14. • Doolittle image
If one place is as
good as any
other, it’s high
time we decided.
Otherwise when
we get there we
won’t know we
have arrived!

15. • Global Competitiveness
• Smartforce
• R&D/Innovation

16. Increase Global
Competitiveness
• Regulatory Reform
• Comprehensive Tax Reform
• Open Global Markets/Level Field

17. Build a Smartforce
• Community College &
Career Training Program
• National Skills Certification
• Immigration Reform

18. Spur R&D/Innovation
• National Network for Manufacturing
Innovation
• Advanced Manufacturing Partnership 2.0
• America COMPETES Act Reauthorization

19. Taking the Good, Leaving the
Bad
Manufacturing’s
pushmi-pullyu!

20. MEP Map

21. Segue:[The audience needs to
wake up now. Let’s talk
technology!]

22. U.S. Technology Leads the Way
Additive Manufacturing
Automation
Big Data

23. Bringing Manufacturing
to the Masses

25. Not Just 3D Printing …

26. Business in 3D
shares tripled since company
went public (February 2013)
shares jumped 73% in last year
shares have doubled from
a year ago

27. First Innovation Institute

28. 100 Years of Automation

29. 100 Years Later . . . .
Northrop Grumman
Palmdale, California

30. Robotics: The Real Story on Jobs
Number of Robots
Unemployment
Source: International Federation of Robotics

31. Automation Growth & Impact
Source: ASME Advanced Manufacturing Environmental Scan, July 2013

32. Big Data
Collect
Connect
Store
1 Exabyte
which is . . .
1024 Petabytes
1,048,576 Terabytes
1,073,741,824 Gigabytes
1,099,511,627,776 Megabytes
That’s lots of
space.
Analyze
Utilize

33. Sensors >> Big Data
Source: ASME Advanced Manufacturing Environmental Scan, July 2013

34. Sensors: Most Advanced
Yet Accessible

35. Advanced Robotics & Automation

36. Biomimicry

37. Datacentricity

38. Nano-Manufacturing

39. AMTonline.org
Advancing Data-Driven Mfg
Manufacturing.
April 8 – 10, 2014 | Orlando
Florida
May 14 – 15, 2014
Rosemont, IL