2026 and beyond
The U.S. manufacturing industry faces unprecedented global challenges in the years ahead.
As the internet, satellite images, and entertainment become more realistic yet less tangible, the tools and components that create and sustain these intangibles remain essential to modern life through Industry 4.0.
Just as human relations and associations are necessary, groups like the Technology & Manufacturing Association work hard to provide them to their members.
Unimaginable items in 2025 will be designed, created, and produced over the next decade. Artificial intelligence will serve as a resource for many, if not most, ideas—yet creative humans will always remain at the heart of the manufacturing industry.
Americans are likely to increasingly resemble the 1960 Jetson Family’s cartoon character lifestyle more and more each year, as technology advances.
Projection to the Future
With a hat tip to TMA’s 50th Commemorative Booklet’s conclusion, we adapt the concluding text to reflect our 100th Year Commemorative issue of the TMA News Bulletin, with hope and confidence for U.S. manufacturing and the Technology & Manufacturing Association’s future. (Changes in bold)
100 years, although a great milestone to reach, is too early to adequately judge the merits of such an organization. We consider the first 100 years to have been a mere springboard into the challenging years ahead. It is the future that will help determine the place that the Technology & Manufacturing Association will occupy in the history of the tooling industry.
The goal of the Officers, the Board of Directors, and Staff of the TMA is that this Association will continue to earn its recognition as an integral part of the very distinguished and diversified Global Tooling Community.
From the TMA’s Centennial Commemoration Edition of the News Bulletin, Summer 2025. Written by Fran Eaton, TMA News Editor