At IMTS 2010, new exhibitor-friendly work rules came to McCormick Place. After a period of being in flux, those work rules became permanent last fall. Peter Eelman, VP - Exhibitions & Communications, AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology, gives an update on McCormick Place changes and how that affects exhibitors at IMTS 2012.
This industry news segment on IMTSTV is brought to you by AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology.
Investment is on its way to the BRIC nations, many announcements at the auto show in Detroit and Boeing is moving operations around the U.S.
Aired Monday, January 16, 2012. Let us know what you think about our news segment on IMTSTV - we're excited to be able to bring it to you each month.
Did you make any resolutions going into 2012? Did you know that IMTS can actually help you keep them? Here are the top 12 resolutions that IMTS can help you keep in 2012.
The January IMTSTV Show is live at www.IMTS.com/IMTSTV. In the January 2012 show, we bring you the latest news and forecasts, an update on the McCormick Place rules and IMTS housing.
IMTS Exhibitors - Don't miss the best education event in your city!
First exhibitor workshop starts next Friday in LA and then we go to Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Providence and we complete the tour in Charlotte. This is a great event to get you prepared for IMTS. We're only 240 days or 5776 hours or 346,587 minutes away from IMTS 2012. Are you prepared?
Hope to see you there. I will be in Chicago and Detroit filming the sessions and doing interviews for the February IMTSTV show. The January show will air on Monday, January 16 at 12 PM EST. Hope you will watch with us and give us some feedback. Enjoy the show and see you soon! Get more info or register at www.IMTS.com/workshop.
The results are in, and they’re not good. According to a survey commissioned by Kennametal (an IMTS exhibitor), only 9 percent of the 1,000 Americans surveyed felt that manufacturing was a “bright spot” on the U.S. economy.
But well known to those in the industry, manufacturing has actually been leading the recovery, in terms of both revenue and job creation.
This speaks to an unfortunate truth that our industry continues to face. Despite advances in mind-blowing technology, despite the good-paying and highly skilled jobs available throughout the industry, despite work to reach out to youth and encouraging them to consider a manufacturing career … a sullied image still pervades American sentiment. According to the survey, 71 percent of respondents would not recommend a career in manufacturing to young people.
So what can we do to change these perceptions? Clearly a walk through the show floor at IMTS would change a lot of minds, but we need to create a larger window of opportunity to truly work on improving the industry’s image. Polls like this show that no matter how far we think we’ve come, we’ve still got a long way to go.
If you could do one thing — anything — to improve the perception of manufacturing, what would it be?
