{"id":2520,"date":"2009-09-17T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Analyst-Event-AMT\/ba-p\/334051"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:21:00","slug":"analyst-event-amt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/analyst-event-amt\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Event: AMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The other night I met up with a past colleague who was laid off a few months ago. I was impressed with how she retooled quickly into a freelance role. Yesterday I heard a similar retooling story but by a company not just one individual.<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/www.appliedmfg.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">AMT \u2013 Applied Manufacturing Technologies<\/A> had been an engineering services company for 20 years. Nearly all their business had been in the automotive industry. But over the past year they\u2019ve retooled to diversify. Check out <A href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mwfCXwh81RA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">my interview<\/A> with Jordan Merhib, director of business development for AMT.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mwfCXwh81RA\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Today they have 20 percent of their business from other industries. Their 150 engineers deliver services in seven core technologies:<BR \/><UL>&nbsp;<BR \/>\t<LI>simulation &amp; digital manufacturing<\/LI><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/>\t<LI>mechanical design<\/LI><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/>\t<LI>controls design<\/LI><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/>\t<LI>software and programming<\/LI><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/>\t<LI>vision engineering<\/LI><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/>\t<LI>paint processing<\/LI><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/>\t<LI>training &amp; technical publications<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/>In their history, Jordan noted they have probably done 20,000 different automation projects. They still do a lot of automation but they also are taking that to the next level with areas like virtual commissioning.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night I met up with a past colleague who was laid off a few months ago. I was impressed with how she retooled quickly into a freelance role. Yesterday I heard a similar retooling story but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}