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国际模具及加工协会-NATIONAL TOOLING AND MACHINING ASSOCIATION

国际模具及加工协会 NTMA是精密制造业在美国的国家代表。

许多NTMA成员都是小企业，私人拥有和经营，但行业产生超过每年400亿美元的销售额。我们近2000名成员的设计和制造专用工具，模具，夹具，夹具，量具，特种机械制造，和精密加工零件。有些公司专门的实验研究和开发工作。

模具和机械加工行业是我国经济健康的关键，因为它使可能存在的几乎所有其他的制造业。模具是，在其最简单的意义上，生产资料。 “特殊”的工具，如模具，定制设计和制造特定的产品，一般在数量上，和所需的统一性，准确性，互换性，和质量水平。加工涉及到了多种机床的使用，削减或形式的材料，通常是金属，精确的形状和尺寸。

The NTMA is the national representative of the custom precision manufacturing industry in the United States.

Many NTMA members are small businesses, privately owned and operated, yet the industry generates sales in excess of $40 billion a year. Our nearly 2000 members design and manufacture special tools, dies, jigs, fixtures, gages, special machines, and precision machined parts. Some firms specialize in experimental research and development work.

The tooling and machining industry is critical to our country's economic health as it makes possible the existence of virtually every other manufacturing industry. Tooling is, in its simplest sense, the means of production. "Special" tooling, such as dies and molds, is custom designed and made to manufacture specific products, generally in quantity, and to desired levels of uniformity, accuracy, interchangeability, and quality. Machining involves the use of a wide variety of machine tools to cut or form material, usually metal, to precise shapes and dimensions.

NTMA member companies use the full range of machine tools and related equipment, ranging from small automatic lathes for miniature parts, to enormous boring mills. The industry is probably the most technologically-advanced of all small manufacturing activities, and enjoys widespread deployment of computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) machines and other computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques.

Our industry supplies the necessary precision tooling and machining for such vital industries as defense, automotive, aerospace, appliance, business machines, electronics, agricultural implements, ordnance, transportation, environmental, construction equipment, nuclear, and many more. In point of fact, nearly every manufacturer does business at one time or another with the contract tooling and machining industry.

Upcoming Events

2011

National Precision Machining Technology Championships
SkillsUSA 2011
June 21-24, 2011 | Kansas City, MO.

NTMA/PMA Purchasing Fair
September 7, 2011 I Intercontinental
Venue: Chicago O’Hare Hotel, Chicago, IL
www.purchasingfair.com

NTMA 2011 Fall Conference
Date: October 13-16, 2011
Venue: The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO