When Leaders Must Step In and Textron's Big Split: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review

Welcome to the IndustryWeek Weekly Review, where every seven days we share with you the most consumed content over the previous week. Below is the latest Top 10 list, but don't forget that we also have a robust library of content always available for you to peruse. 

5 Work Conflicts, 5 Strategies for Bosses to Address Them: It's important for leaders to have an idea of what they're dealing with and know when to step in.

EV Notes: Rivian Alters Georgia Plant Plans, No Nissan EVs in Mississippi: Also: A Florida-based company looking to roll up the e-bike sector is setting up shop in Tennessee.

Textron Prepares for Separation of $3B+ Industrial Group: The company’s leaders plan to focus on their aerospace and defense unit, which is home to Cessna and Bell, among other brands.

The Progress Paradox: Do Six Sigma Belt Certifications Help or Hurt Continuous Improvement Efforts? Podcast hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer continue to explore difficult questions around lean, Six Sigma and continuous improvement, focusing their attention on the belt certification system and asking whether belts build expertise or simply create hierarchies.

The Progress Paradox: Does Standardized Work Stifle Creativity in Continuous Improvement? Consider standard work as a baseline for improvement, not a prison, say the hosts of Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement.

Automation Won’t Save You If Nobody Uses It Correctly: Adoption failure and dashboard blind spots are killing enterprise program efficiency. Here’s what actually works—from the field.

How Simply Stamps Manufactured a Custom Rubber Stamp for NASA and the Artemis II Space Mission: CEO Bryan Croft talks engineering challenges, exacting requirements and how many iterations it took to create the perfect rubber stamp for lunar orbit.

The AI Memory Tax: Every Manufacturer Will Pay for the AI Boom: Nobody has given manufacturing leaders outside the semiconductor industry a practical way to assess this risk. Here’s one.

April ISM Report: Manufacturing PMI Holds at 52.7%, Extends Expansion: Last month, 13 manufacturing industries reported growth, while three reported contraction, according to ISM.

Corning Feeds Data Centers and Ford Hints at Defense Projects: So That Happened: IndustryWeek editors look into those stories as well as the merger that wasn't between LCI Industries and Patrick Industries, continued streamlining at Honeywell, and leadership changes at Pella, Lockheed Martin and Owens Corning.