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IndustryWeek Best Plants
Scan records for all manufacturing plants that have won this award from 1990-2011.

IW 1000
Use this free database to view the entire IW 1000 or sort the list by several categories including industry, country, ranking, and financial performance measures. Among the financials captured in the database are revenue, net income, profit margin, revenue growth, total equity, and earnings per share.

IndustryWeek U.S. 500
Check out this free, searchable database of the U.S.' 500 largest public manufacturing companies based on 2009 annual revenues. View the entire list or sort by several categories including industry, state and ranking. Previous years' databases also available.



Surveys and Special Reports

Data And Big Analytics For Product and Process Quality
In this webinar, the presenters discuss the competitive urgency for an end-to-end solution for managing quality-related data and how such a solution -- an Enterprise Analytical Quality Platform (EAQP) -- works.

The Productivity Growth Mandate
Manufacturers in the developed world must drive substantial and ongoing productivity improvement through 2050 in order to compete globally. This reality requires new strategies to overcome challenges that are making productivity gains much more difficult to achieve. This whitepaper describes those challenges and how leading companies are addressing them in order to become more competitive.

Closing The Gap: Breakthrough Objectives and Continuous Improvement
Only a handful of organizations are successfully aligning CI activities to specifically achieve their most critical breakthrough objectives for growth and value creation. In this webinar, speakers explore the results of a recent survey of manufacturing leaders that reveals a gap between growth goals and operational excellence performance — even among companies with mature and enterprise-wide CI cultures.

Managing Risk in Global Manufacturing Enterprises
A special report by IndustryWeek examines how manufacturers view the risks that can affect their businesses and how they are preparing for them.

Italian Machinery Fueling Manufacturing's Rebound
From recycling soda pop bottles to the modernization of urban transportation systems, Italian-made machinery is part of every North American supply chain. As the economy rebounds and expands, manufacturers are relying on their Italian partners to fuel accelerating production through machine innovation, quality, and service. With the support of their Italian partners, North American producers have come back stronger. Read their stories — as well as news on the latest innovations from Italy -- in the Spring 2011 edition of Machines Italia.

IW's Best Manufacturing Companies
IndustryWeek's report on the 50 top-performing publicly traded U.S. manufacturers based on financial performance over the past three-year period in six areas: revenue growth, return on equity, profit margin, asset turnover, inventory turnover and return on assets.

IndustryWeek's 2010 Salary Survey: Down But Not Out
The U.S. economy took a bite out of manufacturing management's earnings, reveals IndustryWeek's 2010 Salary Survey. Still, cautious optimism exists for salary increases this year.



Sponsored White Papers

Download FREE white papers on value chain optimization, manufacturing software, inventory management, and more. IndustryWeek's Sponsored White Paper Collection is an easy-to-use library of manufacturing documents.



Benchmarking Products

Best Plants Benchmarking Database
IndustryWeek's Best Plants Benchmarking Database can show you how top manufacturers set themselves apart. With more than 220 different metrics, the Best Plants database provides you with enough information to profile successful practices in areas such as operations, quality, maintenance, worker productivity and more.