Stronger relationships
Build trust with complementary leaders who understand technical markets and can create relevant introductions.
A high-trust growth platform
Build a stronger business.Starting now, you're not alone.
The Engineering & Manufacturing Alliance brings together a selective group of complementary companies, giving business leaders trusted peers who understand their world and a practical platform for stronger relationships, sharper decisions, relevant opportunities, and industry visibility.
Selective membershipCategory-awareReviewed annually
More than networkingRelationships that turn into useful action.
The Alliance mission
To help leaders of engineering and manufacturing service businesses build stronger companies—and avoid growing alone—through trusted relationships, shared experience, expert guidance, and meaningful industry exposure.
How it helps
A structured environment for practical growth.
The Alliance is intentionally small and contribution-oriented. Members do not buy access to a passive directory; they earn a place in a group designed to improve outcomes for one another.
Better decisions
Use practical peer experience, focused masterminds, and expert guidance to reduce avoidable trial and error.
Meaningful exposure
Show your expertise through PDX and, at higher tiers, focused media, content, and distribution opportunities.
A high-trust growth platform for companies serving technical markets.
01Trusted relationships
02Shared experience
03Meaningful growth
Curated for fit, not volume.
Who it is for
Leaders building credible technical businesses.
Strong members improve the group for everyone. The Alliance is designed for suppliers, service providers, manufacturers, laboratories, consultants, and other established firms that serve technical markets.
- You serve engineering, product development, or manufacturing markets.
- Your company is established enough to execute on meaningful opportunities.
- You want to grow—not simply maintain the status quo.
- You value complementary relationships over broad, transactional networking.
- You are prepared to contribute insight, participation, and thoughtful referrals.
Direct competition is avoided wherever practical. In most cases, one primary member is admitted per vertical within a region.
Three levels of participation
Choose the support that matches your growth goals.
Every tier includes the relationships, peer insight, expert resources, referral opportunities, and PDX exposure at the heart of the Alliance.
Core
$5,000 / year
Gets your company into the room.
- Referral & introduction engine
- Quarterly mastermind roundtables
- Standard PDX booth
- Expert sessions and private forum
Growth
$20,000 / year
Helps your company operate and grow more intentionally.
- Everything in Core
- Document Library & Growth Playbook
- Lead-list generation
- Being An Engineer guest appearance
Scale
$35,000 / year
Builds authority through strategic media and distribution.
- Everything in Growth
- Flagship documentary feature
- 24 annual PML distributions
- The Wave placement and reporting
Included at every tier
PDX turns expertise into trust.
Every membership includes a standard 10' × 10' booth at Product Development Expo. Its training-focused format gives members room to teach, demonstrate capability, and engage with engineers and manufacturing leaders around real technical work.
See the PDX member experience
Membership is earned and maintained
Could your company make the Alliance stronger?
Tell us what you do, where you fit, and how you would contribute. We review category overlap, capability, culture, and mutual value before inviting a conversation.
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