Nick Rupprecht Earns Certified Manufacturing Technology Sales Engineer (CMTSE) Designation

Nick Rupprecht, Design Engineer at Advanced Machine & Engineering (AME), is now one of over 950 individuals nationwide who has earned the Certified Manufacturing Technology Sales Engineer (CMTSE) designation from the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). CMTSEs represent over 255 distributor and builder organizations throughout the United States and Canada.

This national certification program acknowledges individuals with a proven level of competence in machine tool sales through experience, education, and testing. The CMTSE designation represents the culmination of months of study, years of practical experience, and successful completion of a comprehensive standardized examination.

The CMTSE credential is an industry acknowledgement of individuals that understand the technical and administrative sales processes necessary to solve customers’ individual challenges.

CMTSEs continue to expand their expertise by achieving periodic recertification by engaging in a variety of professional development activities designed to keep them current in machine tool sales and technology.

Rupprecht has been employed by AME since 2014. Some of his accomplishments include:

1. Assisted in various saw machine sub-assembly designs for AME

2. Designed sub-assemblies for a 180S Beam Saw for Crown

3. Created a viewing system for the progress of web activity and web model download activity for each product brand within AME

The CMTSE program, developed in 1992 is supported by the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA), the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), the Machinery Dealers’ National Association (MDNA), and the Canadian Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (CMTDA).