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, market development, and more. Listen now for some insights collected by our visit to IMTS 2026, and what our impressions indicate about new technology and manufacturing trends.
