The International Manufacturing Technology Show has everything you can imagine about manufacturing, and much more than you’ve probably never imagined about manufacturing.
“What differentiated IMTS 2026 was the strong focus on how manufacturing technology and investment are renewing America’s industrial capability and strengthening the U.S. economy, industrial base, and national defense,” according to AMT president Douglas K. Woods.
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.
