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Continuous Improvement

5 Steps for Sustaining a Lean Culture

April 15, 2024
Operational efficiency is a lifestyle, not a journey with a destination or finish line.

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Ebooks & Digital Editions

Editorial eBook: Baltimore Bridge Collapse

April 15, 2024
Experts from EBM share insights into the tragedy in Baltimore.
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Recruiting / Retention

Five Ways AI Is Changing the HR Game

April 12, 2024
The biggest payoff may be in professional development for current employees.
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Technology and IIoT

Rockwell Automation Gives AI Its Due

April 12, 2024
AI takes center stage in Rockwell’s ninth annual State of Smart Manufacturing Report.
Operations

What We Learned: Expertise and Episodes from Three Years of ‘Factory Talk’

April 11, 2024
As the factory operations video series draws to a close, moderator Jamie Flinchbaugh shares some of the highlights.
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Leadership

So That Happened: The Eaglets Have Landed in a Steel Plant

April 10, 2024
IndustryWeek editors look into those stories and STEM programs for historically black colleges, growing capital investments in manufacturing, electric vehicle growth for school...
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Quality

Are You Improving Quality, Or Just Managing the Status Quo?

April 9, 2024
Goals, questions and metrics across the company are part of an overall vision for better quality.
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Logistics

The Baltimore Bridge Disaster, Two Weeks On: What You Need to Know

April 9, 2024
The good, the bad, and the new reality of the logistics landscape.

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Talent

Talent Advisory Board — Managing Your 24 Hours Well

March 5, 2024
For February, the shortest month of the year, IW's panel of manufacturing talent experts give advice on time management.

Supply Chain

Watching the Wheels (and Other Parts) Put into Motion: What’s Behind the Rise in Real-Time Location Systems

April 5, 2024
Auto manufacturers are among the many supply chain leaders who want to diligently track and trace parts, finished goods and even packaging as fulfillment – and financial – burdens...

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Regulations

Production Pulse: 2024 Election's Impact on Manufacturing

March 21, 2024
Manufacturing experts in the machine tool, food and pharmaceutical industries discuss how Washington is addressing the manufacturing world and what's at stake in the Biden-Trump...
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Talent

Five Years, Five Sectors: US Cities with Notable Manufacturing Job Gains Since 2019

March 15, 2024
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the CHIPS Act, there have been several drivers of manufacturing job growth in recent years.
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Talent

Production Pulse: Women in Engineering and Manufacturing

March 7, 2024
Engineers from Subaru and Endress+Hauser discussed how to bring more girls into STEM and offer career opportunities for women in manufacturing.