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Strategy 2030
What we do and why membership matters
Strategy 2030 is AMGTA’s articulation of the work being built through 2030 — what the organization is becoming, the framework guiding it, and what membership makes possible at this stage of the industry.
It is written for the organizations whose engagement shapes that work — current members, returning members, and prospective members evaluating whether AMGTA’s next chapter aligns with their priorities.
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Participants shape the framing.
Those who watch will be shaped by it.
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Sherri Monroe presenting at Formnext, the world’s largest additive manufacturing trade fair.
What’s inside
The strategy, the work, and what it makes possible
Strategy 2030 advances AMGTA’s work across resource efficiency, operational resilience, and performance & accountability.
What this is
The position AMGTA holds
Six years of member engagement and ecosystem collaboration produced a structurally independent organization with no equipment to sell, no materials to promote, no national interest to advance, and no services to sell. What that independence makes possible — and why no other organization can replicate it.
The framing
What AMGTA built and what 2026 makes active
The evaluative framing for understanding additive manufacturing’s resource performance at the part, system, and enterprise levels. 2026 is the shift from foundation built to foundation active across the ecosystem.
Why it matters now
The window for framing is now
Infrastructure investments, reshoring initiatives, policy frameworks, and procurement specifications are being written right now. Organizations that engage while the rules are still being written have influence over what gets embedded. That window narrows as consensus forms.
Available to members
Published resources and analytical content
The AM Evaluation Report, thought leadership content, the Manufacturing Leadership Interview Series, sector briefs, and claim discipline guidance — published, hosted, and made available across the membership.
Built through participation
Research members shape and apply
The Industry Survey measuring what manufacturing decision-makers actually understand about AM. The Total Cost Consideration Guide revealing what conventional analysis excludes. The Use Case library demonstrating thorough methodology. Members shape what these become.
Three audiences
How members engage
Strategy 2030 addresses current members shaping the next chapter, lapsed members returning to a foundation now mature enough to apply at scale, and prospective members evaluating whether AMGTA’s work aligns with their organization’s priorities.
From the document
What readers will encounter
The structural independence described here created something rare — a non-competitive space where technology developers and manufacturing users collaborate as equals.
Members shape what gets built, see it first, and extend its reach through conversations AMGTA cannot have alone.
The framing is mature enough to apply at scale. The diagnostic resources, market intelligence, sector-specific guidance, and reviewed use cases that will carry this framing into the industry are being built now.
AMGTA goes where you cannot go alone — procurement forums, sector conferences, standards bodies, policy discussions. The neutrality membership collectively sustains is what makes that reach possible.
Who Strategy 2030 is for
Three audiences
Current members
The work documented here is partly your work. Strategy 2030 names what becomes possible on the foundation members helped build.
Returning members
If your organization has been part of AMGTA before, the foundation is built. The next chapter is applying it at scale.
Prospective members
For organizations evaluating additive manufacturing, developing AM technology, or advancing adoption — Strategy 2030 is the entry point.
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