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With digital tools and structured buying policies, travel and hospitality organizations can optimize costs, ensure service consistency, and enhance resilience amid inflation, ...
Oct. 21, 2025
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Healthcare supply chains are facing an array of critical challenges that threaten operations. Considering the supply chain is essential to providing timely, high-quality patient...
Oct. 21, 2025
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Operating in a decentralized environment presents unique challenges for businesses. With teams spread across numerous locations, maintaining consistency in operations becomes ...
Oct. 21, 2025
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Manufacturing procurement requires both operational efficiency and analytical insights to drive strategic impact.
Oct. 21, 2025

IW U.S. 500

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From roofing shingles and paint to smart security systems and home spas, IndustryWeek rolls out the top manufacturing companies in the construction and home-improvement spaces...
Sept. 24, 2025
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Browse the top 10 companies in the information technology sector from the IndustryWeek U.S. 500.
Sept. 16, 2025
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A single chemicals manufacturer on the 2025 IW U.S. 500 achieved double-digit revenue growth.
Sept. 3, 2025
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GE Vernova's challenging wind business didn't knock the company off the top spot.
Aug. 29, 2025

IW U.S. 50 Best Manufacturers

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The Pennsylvania-based maker of ceiling tiles and engineering architectural installations for buildings took a multi-year approach to targeting stability and adaptability, making...
July 1, 2025
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Allison Transmission's plant in Indianapolis is a top-performing facility and was the site of factory tours for IndustryWeek's 2024 Operations Leadership Summit. The company improved to No. 1 on the IndustryWeek 50 Best U.S. Manufacturers List for 2025, up from No. 2 in 2024.
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Many new faces join the top manufacturers list, most notably building materials company Armstrong World Industries Inc.
June 30, 2025
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With money-losing 2020 further behind them, several new companies rise in IndustryWeek's annual rankings of the financially best-performing manufacturers.
June 20, 2023

Best Plants

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Celebrate manufacturing excellence with the 35th class of IW Best Plants honorees, models of what is possible with the right combination of teamwork, leadership and a “we will...
Sept. 30, 2025
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IndustryWeek Best Plants Award winner Hoffer Plastics is thriving with the grandchildren of founders in charge, as is Rocheleau Tool & Die.
June 30, 2025
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Although the finalists differ in size, production processes deployed and technologies employed, they are united in their efforts to do great and be better.
June 3, 2025
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If your manufacturing plant is a showcase of operational excellence, then we’re looking for you. The April 4 deadline is approaching!
Jan. 23, 2025

Podcasts

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In this episode of Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement, podcast hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer continue their multi-episode discussion about 10 critical...
Oct. 14, 2025
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Hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer discuss four styles of decision-making, and the art of balancing speed, facts and empowerment.
Oct. 13, 2025
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Podcast hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and Dyer discuss corporate cultures that throw roadblocks in the way of leaders who are strategic thinkers with a systems perspective.
Oct. 9, 2025
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Co-hosts Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer delve into four aspects of this often-overlooked leadership characteristic.
Oct. 7, 2025

Videos

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Revitalizing an impoverished neighborhood was a business decision, not altruism, says the leadership at Viridi, a company making power storage systems for industrial applications...
Sept. 26, 2025
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Sept. 19, 2025
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New funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement is just starting to flow to the agency, so expect more site visits and raids and be prepared, recommends Littler attorney Jorge...
Sept. 18, 2025
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Armanino's Bryan Graiff and IndustryWeek's Robert Schoenberger talk about what's new in manufacturing technology at the Chicago show.
Sept. 11, 2025

Talent

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The latest back and forth follows two days of mediation to try to end the strike, which is now in its 12th week after 3,200 workers in the midwestern states of Missouri and Illinois...
Oct. 22, 2025
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“Inventing the future of flight requires workers with the cutting-edge skills ready to bring our visions to life,” says GE Aerospace Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr.
Oct. 20, 2025
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“The actions we are taking will secure Nestlé’s future as a leader in our industry,” Nestlé CEO Philipp Navratil said in a statement.
Oct. 16, 2025
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Knowing that my work has a real, positive impact, whether on safety, cost, or operational success, is what I’m most proud of.”—Jason Kinsey, Dexco
Oct. 15, 2025

Technology

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How do we get all of these specialized tools to work together?
Oct. 16, 2025
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IndustryWeek editors cover these stories, plus supplier cyber-checkups, DOL doles out state training grants and a pictorial Manufacturing Day Challenge.
Oct. 8, 2025
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The framework should be deliberate and testable, just like any kaizen activity.
Oct. 7, 2025
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The technology won't save your lean transformation, but it can supercharge it.
Sept. 30, 2025

Operations

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A caring supervisor can be the deciding factor between an employee engaging or remaining on the sidelines.
Oct. 14, 2025
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Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis reported "some" fatalities and added that several people were missing in the "very devastating blast" that engulfed an entire building.
Oct. 10, 2025
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Also, battery manufacturing in Buffalo and more on Manufacturing Day/Month.
Oct. 10, 2025
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"I lead projects that focus on improving safety, quality, service, and cost by identifying where things can be done better and working with teams to implement those changes." ...
Oct. 10, 2025

Leadership

Honeywell International Inc.
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The conglomerate’s corporate realignment will leave its division focused on sensors, heat exchangers and other devices as the smallest of three new groups. Vimal Kapur said he...
Oct. 24, 2025
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The CEO of the EV, energy and robotics company says he now feels adequately confident in the company’s self-driving platform and will prioritize production of the cybercab in ...
Oct. 22, 2025
General Motors Corp.
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Deliveries rose 6% from a year earlier and leaders have raised their 2025 forecasts for EBIT and free cash flow. But the auto giant also is making “a quick adjustment to the reality...
Oct. 21, 2025
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Growth from automotive customers is leading the way and CFO Celso Goncalves told analysts “the signs of a real recovery are forming.” Leaders also have signed deals to sell eight...
Oct. 20, 2025

Supply Chain

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This is a monthlong delay from the Oct. 1 start date he vowed in an earlier social media post unveiling the new duty.
Oct. 6, 2025
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President Donald Trump says the tariffs will support domestic manufacturing and national security.
Sept. 26, 2025
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“I don’t believe a large-scale [reshoring] shift will happen,” says West Monroe’s Brian Pacula.
Aug. 12, 2025
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With factors like trade volatility and crushing cost surges, cost optimization is no longer the end-all, be-all.
July 9, 2025