Lou Gerstner, IBM CEO from 1993 to 2002, played a pivotal role in keeping the company unified amid industry upheaval, ...

"The work of modernizing factories, adopting advanced technology, and facilitating bringing production home from overseas ...

IndustryWeek’s partner brands under parent company EndeavorB2B cover a wide range of industrial sectors. We’ve compiled a ...

An unexpected U.S. Dept. of Commerce-generated funding freeze now has FastLane, a second Manufacturing Extension Partnership ...

The digital revolution and the drive for competitive efficiency are pointing towards an increase in technology investments. As markets, supply chains and the economy remain dynamic and continue to ...

You can read the results in IndustryWeek’s 2025 Salary Survey: Wages Recover Following Turbulent Year for Manufacturing (free ...

The overall average of manufacturing salaries increased by 13.1% in 2025. Supply chain and operations leaders experienced a significant salary boost, possibly reflecting their rising strategic value ...

Dr. Deming was fond of promoting the idea that every employee should be able to achieve joy at work and that joy would lead to improved quality and a high performance organization. The research on ...

Human+ capability involves workers effectively collaborating with AI, knowing when to trust algorithms and when to override them based on experience and context. Agentic AI orchestration requires ...

Are your continuous improvement efforts truly continuous, or are they more frequently the “one-and-done” variety until a crisis demands a leap to fire-fighting mode? Are they focused only on the ...

When we think of becoming Lean, in many ways, the ultimate process strategy to accomplish this is what is known as “Mass Customization”. This refers to production in batch sizes of one to meet ...