Fort Washington, Pennsylvania based Amtech Software, the AI-powered ERP and MES provider built for packaging manufacturers, welcomed more than 240 attendees from across North America and beyond to the Amtech User Conference 2026 in Nashville last week. Under the theme “Compete Smarter. Operate Stronger,” the three-day event featured more than 80 breakout sessions and deep dives, along with a clear message about where Amtech is investing next: AI, MES and the cloud.
A lot has changed since customers last gathered in 2024. Vista Equity Partners, which invests only in enterprise software, acquired Amtech from Peak Rock Capital in mid-2025. Since then, Amtech has nearly doubled in size, with its product and technology organization growing more than 143 percent. The company also welcomed Clarico Systems, a leader in AI-powered quoting and estimating for packaging manufacturers, and added senior leaders across technology, infrastructure and security, and AI and data.
“Two years ago, our customers told us what they needed: more efficiency, more ways to win business, and a partner investing ahead of them, not behind them,” said Chuck Schneider, CEO of Amtech Software. “With Vista backing us, we’ve grown our team, upleveled our support, and shipped AI into packaging workflows. Everything we build now has one goal: help our customers win more work and keep their plant’s data locked down.”
Amtech Intelligence embeds AI into the Amtech ERP and MES screens teams already use, rather than bolting it on. It is already at work in Amtech Quick Quote, where an AI agent reads and prepares incoming quote requests for review, cutting the manual work between a customer’s email and a finished quote.
Through a new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amtech is providing packaging plants world-class security, monitoring, backup and maintenance handled by Amtech’s dedicated cloud and security team.
Amtech also announced Team Performance, a platform that connects everyone on the plant floor, from operators and material handlers to supervisors and managers, around the same priorities, across shifts and across languages. Together with new AI-driven scheduling intelligence being developed alongside customers, Team Performance is designed to deliver step change improvements to throughput, on-time delivery and workforce engagement.
“We’re not building a faster horse,” said Danna Nelson, Senior Vice President, Product at Amtech Software. “Our customers don’t need AI for its own sake. They need automation and decisioning embedded inside quoting, scheduling and the plant floor, where it saves real time and a person stays in control. That’s exactly what we’re building, and it’s being shaped by our Customer AI Council and our customers attending the conference.” Visit amtechsoftware.com to learn more.
More details about the conference and Amtech’s vision for the future will be featured in a future issue of Board Converting News.
