Decision Makers
| Owner/Company Management/Corporate Executive | 14% |
| Manufacturing Engineering Department | 14% |
| Manufacturing Production Management | 8% |
| Manufacturing Production Department | 6% |
| Sales & Marketing | 22% |
| Manufacturing Engineering Management | 6% |
| Design Engineer | 5% |
| Quality Assurance & Control | 3% |
| Educator/Instructor | 1% |
| Purchasing | 3% |
| Other | 12% |
| Product Design & Development | 3% |
| Control Engineering/Automation | 3% |
| 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing | 22% |
| 3D Scanning | 12% |
| Advanced Materials | 10% |
| Assembly & Joining | 10% |
| Automated Manufacturing & Assembly | 28% |
| Boring | 9% |
| Casting | 6% |
| Ceramics | 5% |
| Cleaning & Pretreatment Equipment | 6% |
| Cloud Computing | 3% |
| CNC Controls & Accessories | 28% |
| Composites Manufacturing | 6% |
| Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) | 8% |
| Contract Manufacturing Services | 6% |
| Controls, CAD/CAM Software | 17% |
| Coolants & Lubricants | 11% |
| Cutting Tools & Accessories | 24% |
| Cybersecurity | 2% |
| Data Acquisition | 5% |
| Data Translation/Interoperability | 2% |
| Deburring & Edge Finishing | 12% |
| Design & Simulation | 8% |
| Digital Transformation | 3% |
| Digitzers | 1% |
| Drilling & Tapping Machines | 10% |
| EDM | 9% |
| Electronics Manufacturing | 5% |
| Energy & Environmental Efficiency | 2% |
| Environmental Equipment & Protection | 2% |
| ERP/MRP/CIM Software | 3% |
| Fastening | 7% |
| Finishing & Coating | 9% |
| Flexible Manufacturing Systems | 6% |
| Forming & Fabricating | 10% |
| Grinding | 14% |
| Honing | 6% |
| Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) | 6% |
| Industry 4.0 | 5% |
| Information Technology (IT) | 3% |
| Lasers & Laser Systems | 12% |
| Lean Manufacturing | 12% |
| Machine Vision | 7% |
| Machining Centers | 23% |
| Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) | 3% |
| Material Handling | 9% |
| Measurement, Inspection & Testing | 14% |
| Metals | 10% |
| Metrology Equipment | 8% |
| Micromanufacturing | 3% |
| Milling | 19% |
| Modeling & Simulation | 5% |
| Moldmaking | 5% |
| Nanotechnology | 2% |
| Network Equipment | 2% |
| Operations Technology (OT) | 2% |
| Plant Engineering & Maintenance | 5% |
| Plasma Cutting | 5% |
| Plastic Molding & Manufacturing | 5% |
| Product & Process Design Management | 3% |
| Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) | 2% |
| Quality | 8% |
| RFID | 4% |
| Robotics | 15% |
| Screw Machining | 4% |
| Sawing & Cut-Off Machines | 7% |
| Sensors | 5% |
| Software, Machine Control | 5% |
| Software/Simulation | 4% |
| Supply Chain Integration | 2% |
| Tooling | 23% |
| Turning | 15% |
| Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality | 2% |
| Waterjet Cutting | 8% |
| Welding | 9% |
| Workholding Systems & Devices | 12% |
| Workplace Safety & Ergonomics | 5% |
Source: SOUTHTEC 2019 Registration Data