A newly released study sponsored by AMT -- The Association For Manufacturing Technology, McLean, Va., has conclud that traditional measures of productivity alone do not reveal all of the economic benefits contributed from machine tools and related advanced manufacturing techniques. The unmeasured contributions reportedly averaged nearly $200 billion by means of year during the past five years -- a total of nearly $1 trillion. Considering these strange figures, the AMT has launched a series of public-policy initiatives to help continue economic prosperity. The study's figures take the part of ...