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==Trade associations==
Machine tool builders have long had [[trade association]]s, which have helped with such tasks as establishing industry standards, [[lobbying]] (of legislatures and, more often, import-and-export-regulating [[regulatory agency|agencies]]), and training programs.<ref name="Holland1989">{{Harvnb|Holland|1989}}.</ref> For example, the National Machine Tool Builders' Association (NMTBA) was the trade association of U.S. machine tool builders for many decades, and it helped establish standards such as the NMTB [[machine taper]] series (which made toolholders interchangeable between the different brands of machine on a typical machine shop floor). It has since been merged into the [[Association for Manufacturing Technology]] (AMT). Other examples have included CECIMO (European Machine Tool Industry Association), the UK's [[Associated British Machine Tool Makers|ABMTM]], MTTA, and [[Manufacturing Technologies Association|MTA]], and the Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association (JMTBA).<ref name="Holland1989"/>
Just as machine tool builders have long had trade associations, so have machine tool distributors (dealers). Examples have been the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and the Japan Machine Tool Trade Association (JMTTA).<ref name="Holland1989"/> In recent decades the builders' and distributors' associations have cooperated on shared interests to the extent that some of them have merged. For example, the former NMTBA and AMTDA have merged into the AMT.
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