IndustryWeek Slideshows

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	Highlights from the 2011 IW Best Plants Conference
Atlanta, played host to the IndustryWeek 2011 Best Plants conference held April 4-6. Area manufacturing plants threw open their doors to allow conference attendees a peek inside, while some 30 sessions and three keynote speakers shared wisdom, warnings and plenty of dialog about how to improve manufacturing operations. Attendees also took time to celebrate the 2010 IndustryWeek Best Plants winners and learn from their stories as well. These two slideshows will provide you with a taste of the event. We also hope it encourages you to attend a future IW Best Plants conference. The IW 2011 Best Plants Conference will be held April 23-25, 2012, in Indianapolis Photo highlights from the conference Awards presentations to the 2010 Best Plants Winners

	Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2010
The 2010 inaugural class of the IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame -- Norman Bodek, Lawrence Bossidy, Michael Dell, Donald Fites, George Koenigsaecker, Harry Moser, Dennis Pawley, W.J. 'Jerry' Sanders III, Rajan Suri and Richard Teerlink -- bring rich legacies of leadership, intellectual vigor and proven performance in both their businesses and social commitments. These 10 manufacturing giants embody the entrepreneurialism, innovation, competitiveness and customer focus that we believe was instrumental in building the American manufacturing sector into a global economic force. Click here to see the 2010 inductees and why they were selected.

	Highlights From the IW Excellence In Action Plant Tours -- 2010
Reliable Automatic Sprinkler -- Liberty, SC, Philips Respironics -- New Kensington, PA, Correct Craft, Inc., Nautique -- Orlando, FL, La-Z-Boy -- Dayton, TN and New Balance Athletic Footwear Inc. -- Lawrence, MA hosted the 2010 Excellence In Action plant tours, which allow attendees the chance to see operational excellence up close and at work. Click here to see some photographs from the tours.

	NEW: IndustryWeek's Manufacturing Quiz
You may be an active member of the IndustryWeek community, either in print, online, or at our events. But how much do you really know about manufacturing? To test your knowledge, we've put together a short (10 question) quiz for you to find out the extent -- and limitations -- of your manufacturing knowledge. Test your Manufacturing IQ with this 10 question quiz. We also have an earlier quiz. Click here to take the original.

	IndustryWeek's IW 1000: Charts and Tables
The IndustryWeek 1000 is IndustryWeek's report on the 1000 largest publicly held manufacturing companies based on revenue. The following series of tables are results from the 2010 IndustryWeek U.S. 500. See the following data highlights from the report.

	IndustryWeek's U.S. 500: Charts and Tables
The IndustryWeek U.S. 500 is IndustryWeek's report on the 500 largest publicly held U.S. manufacturing companies companies based on revenue. The 2010 IW U.S. 500 was sponsored by Kronos. The following series of tables are results from the 2010 IndustryWeek U.S. 500. See the following data highlights from the report.

	Highlights from the 2010 IW Best Plants Conference
Cleveland, Ohio, played host to the IndustryWeek 2010 Best Plants conference held April 19-21. Seven area manufacturing plants threw open their doors to allow conference attendees a peek inside, while some 30 sessions and three keynote speakers shared wisdom, warnings and plenty of dialog about how to improve manufacturing operations. Attendees also took time to celebrate the 2009 IndustryWeek Best Plants winners and learn from their stories as well. These two slideshows will provide you with a taste of the event. We also hope it encourages you to attend a future IW Best Plants conference. The IW 2011 Best Plants Conference will be held April 4-6, 2011, in Atlanta, Ga. Photo highlights from the conference Awards presentations to the 2009 Best Plants Winners

	Highlights From the IW Excellence In Action Plant Tours -- 2009
Augusta, Ga., Clearwater, Fla., Lafayette, Ind., Wichita, Kan., Andover, Mass. hosted the 2009 Excellence In Action plant tours, which allow attendees the chance to see operational excellence up close and at work. Click here to see some photographs from the tours.

	Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2009
The inaugural class of the IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame -- George David, Joseph Engelberger, William George, Andrew Grove, Charles Holliday, Lee Iacocca, Steve Jobs, Gordon Lankton, Jack Welch and James Womack -- bring rich legacies of leadership, intellectual vigor and proven performance in both their businesses and social commitments. These 10 manufacturing giants embody the entrepreneurialism, innovation, competitiveness and customer focus that we believe was instrumental in building the American manufacturing sector into a global economic force. Click here to see the 2009 inductees and why they were selected.

	Highlights From the IW Excellence In Action Plant Tours -- 2008
Indianapolis, Kansas City, Greenville S.C. and New York City hosted the inaugural Excellence In Action plant tours, which allow attendees the chance to see operational excellence up close and at work. Click here to see some photographs from the four tours.

	Highlights From The 2008 IW Best Plants Conference
Milwaukee was the host city for the IndustryWeek 2008 Best Plants Conference, which featured seven plant tours, more than 50 speakers and nearly 800 participants. The conference celebrated both the achievements of the past, particularly by honoring the 10 recipients of the 2007 IW Best Plants Awards, as well as the trailblazing work being done to create a culture of continuous improvement in facilities throughout North America. Enter the slideshow.

	Awards Presentations to the 2007 Best Plants Winners
See the awards presentations to the 2007 IW Best Plants winners. Enter the slideshow.

	DHL and Infor Offer Green SCO
DHL, APS and Infor are teaming up to help you answer this tough question by providing a SCO solution that allows for optimization based on cost, carbon or both. Peter Gordon of APS and Sander Van den Berg of DHL have provided some slides with sample data that shows how to strike a balance between economic and environmental supply chain costs. Enter the slideshow.

	A Vision Of Second Life
Linden Labs' "virtual world" fantasy computer game has no dragons or damsels in distress, and yet is experiencing a near-exponential growth rate in the last two years. Every day, $1.6 million dollars are changing hands, spurring many companies to open the equivalent of a major branch office in-world. Others are playing the game through sponsorships and designing products for the user community, and still others are using Second Life as a virtual conference room. Join IndustryWeek's IT editor Brad Kenney as he does some reconnaissance of this new interpersonal -- and commercial -- frontier. Enter the slideshow.