GARDNER PUBLICATIONS, parent company of MODERN MACHINE SHOP, sponsors numerous suveys, reports and information sources throughout the year for the metalworking and manufacturing industries. Below are links to reports crucial to buyers and sellers of machine tools and metalworking technologies. Information on how to obtain clarification or more detailed reports is available within each report, where applicable.

2009 Capital Spending Survey & Forecast - NEW!
"Cap Spending" has been updated for 2009, and it's the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending (for 2009) in the discrete parts manufacturing industries. It generates an astounding wealth of information about who's buying what in the metalworking technology and manufacturing industries.

2008 Capital Spending Survey & Forecast
"Cap Spending" has been updated for 2008, and it's the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending (for 2008) in the discrete parts manufacturing industries. It generates an astounding wealth of information about who's buying what in the metalworking technology and manufacturing industries.

2009 Tooling & Workholding Spending Survey—NEW!
10th Annual Tooling & Workholding Spending Survey is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in the tooling and workholding industries. From the good folks at Gardner Research.

The 2008 World Machine-Tool Output and Consumption Survey—NEW!
No single government or trade-association source can give you these head-to-head comparisons of machine tool consumption statistics from around the world. And its been formatted here for ease of use on the Web. The 2007 data, 2006 data, 2005 data, is also available for your review.

What Shops Want In Machining Centers
This piece from Peter Zelinski looks at a user study titled "Machining Center User Perception Study." Survey targets were individuals with engineering or engineering management titles who have authority for specifying machining centers. The report’s findings are based on 333 responses to the detailed survey, which translates to a statistical margin of error of ±4.5 percent, the company says.

SPECIAL REPORT: World Machine Tool Review
The global machine tool landscape continues to change itself. Modern Machine Shop editors visited two more countries during the last half of 1998, Japan and Italy.

SPECIAL REPORT: World Machine Tool Review
The list of countries feeding the global demand for machine tools is growing and changing. The next machine you purchase may well have been built in a country you don't immediately associate with manufacturing technology. Modern Machine Shop editors visited two such countries in 1998, the Czech Republic and Spain. In both nations, machine tool builders are positioning themselves to win a larger share of not just the world market, but the U.S. market in particular.

The Remaking Of A Machine Tool Industry
Tom Beard takes the pulse of the American machine tool industry in this 1998 special report for the German magazine, Industrie Anzeiger.

Metalworking Insiders' Report - is a biweekly newsletter that covers the news and developments related to the business side of the capital-equipment industry. Its focus is on the production, equipment, building and distribution industry that, in turn, serves many manufacturing industries.

Of course, there are other excellent sources of metalworking- and machine tool-related data. Below are links to some we recommend.

AMT-The Association For Manufacturing Technology. Select the link to "Publications" off of their main page and you'll find it. The Economic Handbook includes information on the world machine tool industry, the national and world economies, employment, machine tool orders and shipments, machine tools in use, and the financial condition of the industry. It's compiled from dozens of domestic and foreign sources, and is one of the most comprehensive collections of data on the machine tool and related industries available anywhere in the world. Both product-specific and country-specific data are included, and information about capital equipment purchases is broken out for five major consuming industries.

Also, AMT publishes numerous publications for the machine tool and metalworking industries.