Wild About Data Centers and a Milestone Moment in the Search for Excellence: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review
Humanoid robots, people-centric leadership, data centers and more captured our manufacturing community's attention in this edition of IndustryWeek's Weekly Review, where we share the top-consumed content over the past seven days. Without further ado, the Top 10 from this holiday-shortened week are:
Humanoid Robots at Hannover Messe: Was the most interesting innovation at this year's automation fair realistic or just another fad?
Meet the 2026 IndustryWeek Best Plants Finalists: Six manufacturing plants advance in IW’s annual search for operational excellence.
Making the Case for Data Centers: We need the centers to power the modern digital economy, and there's a solution to the energy challenge: nuclear reactors.
Now Interacting: Robotics and AI in Manufacturing: The most significant transformation will be AI acting as a unifying intelligence layer, linking robotics to an expansive manufacturing ecosystem of previously unused data.
Truly Human Leadership's Next Chapter: An interview with the new CEO of Bob Chapman's people-centric leadership institute.
What Does 'Good' Look Like After Years of Lean? (Lean Series, Part 3): If you think problems disappear in mature lean organizations, you'd be wrong. What changes is how organizations react to those problems and how leaders' roles evolve.
Updated: IndustryWeek’s Big List of Manufacturing Scholarships: Looking for financial help with trade school or college? Check out our compendium of STEM scholarship opportunities.
Five Manufacturers Announce US Expansion Plans and Chinese Automakers Eye North America: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review: The IndustryWeek manufacturing community turned its attention to those topics, as well as Land O'Lakes' talent strategy, why not to leap into 5S, a hacker attack and more.
When Can We Say We Are Lean, Part 2: Promise and Pitfalls of Maturity Models: Has your organization fallen prey to the three threats of lean maturity models? Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer discuss maturity model risks in this episode of Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement.
Deaths Confirmed in Chemical Incident at US Plant: A tank containing a substance known as white liquor burst at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company in Longview, an hour north of Portland on the Washington-Oregon border, a statement said.