Welcome to IndustryWeek's Weekly Review, where every seven days we share the top content from the previous week, as selected by our IW manufacturing community. Without further ado, the Top 10 list includes:
Tesla Scores a Sweet Deal and Manufacturing Day Debuts: 25 in 2025: The events that changed manufacturing, Part III: 2010-2012
Strategy from Digitalization's Front Line: How to embrace and scale industry 4.0 without depending on expensive off-the-shelf software.
Ford Saves Itself and Cobots Get Real: 25 in 2025: The events that changed manufacturing: Part II, 2004-2009.
Who Let China in? and Supply Chain Cracks Form: 25 in 2025: The events that changed manufacturing, Part I: 2000-2003
Trump’s ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs Have Arrived. What Do Supply Chain Experts Expect Next? “I don’t believe a large-scale [reshoring] shift will happen,” says West Monroe’s Brian Pacula.
Survey: Tariffs Have Caused Double-Digit Operating Cost Hikes at Nearly Half of Companies: More than 50% of respondents to the latest Endeavor Business Intelligence poll have raised prices because of tariffs since the spring.
Tariffs' Tangled Web, Ford's Assembly Line Shuffle and Leaning with AI: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review: Also, Rivian sues, and meet top manufacturers in the aerospace and defense sector.
How Toyota and Other Lean Cultures Are Leading With AI: Continuous improvement and respect for people are the true drivers of the technology.
Hiring in the Age of Tariffs: Manufacturing Leaders Sound Off: During the fourth of a series of webinars on how manufacturers are dealing with tariff-driven changes to the economy, company HR leaders, recruiters and non-profits share ideas on what businesses can do now as the labor market remains tight.
2025 IW U.S. 500: Top Food and Beverage Manufacturers: Browse the top 10 makers of food and beverage products from the IndustryWeek U.S. 500.