Brownfield Bet, Slower Speed Ahead and 'Persistent Irritants': IndustryWeek's Weekly Review
Welcome to IndustryWeek's Weekly Review, where every Friday we share the most-viewed content of the previous seven days. In this edition, we've also included one Editor's Choice selection. Without further ado, the Top 10:
Ford Shutting Down its Glass House Headquarters: New facility about three miles away puts corporate management and design adjacent to each other.
Making Generative AI Work for Everyone in a Factory Setting: To truly leverage its potential, it's necessary to understand its strengths and weaknesses in a demanding industrial setting.
Alcoa Hits Pause on Some Canadian Capex Over Tariffs: The company is fulfilling contracts to ship the U.S. customers but also diverting some volumes to Canadian clients, CFO Molly Beerman told an investment bank’s conference.
Battery Manufacturer Bets Big on Brownfield Site in Buffalo, New York: Revitalizing an impoverished neighborhood was a business decision, not altruism, says the leadership at Viridi, a company making power storage systems for industrial applications.
Hitachi Energy Announces $1 Billion Investment in US Manufacturing Projects to Support the Electrical Grid: “With digital technologies at the core of our business, we are delivering comprehensive solutions that solve significant societal problems. By investing in the United States, we are strengthening local economies while accelerating innovation,” says Hitachi Ltd. President and CEO Toshiaki Tokunaga.
Slow Down to Speed up: Leadership's Power of the Pause: In a world addicted to speed, the pause creates space for reflection, learning, and real transformation.
More Industrial CEOs See End to ‘Really Challenging’ Demand Picture: Executives of Steel Dynamics and other companies see demand broadening as we near 2026. But two persistent irritants show no signs of fading.
Alarm Bells, Doubled-edged Swords and Why Do We Love Butch: IndustryWeek’s Weekly Review: Also, what's the best approach to coaching, and more.
Podcast: The Power of Two-Way Communication in Organizational Design: In this episode of Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement, podcast hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer discuss the positives and negatives of several communication techniques and share insights on tactics that have worked for them.
Desktop Metal Comes Back, Nano Dimension May Be Going: Shakeup in the additive manufacturing sector continues as a new investor group has purchased Desktop Metal out of bankruptcy while its former Nano Dimension considers “strategic alternatives,” corporate speak for restructuring, sale or bankruptcy.
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