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2026 IndustryWeek Best Plants: Bullen Ultrasonics Excels by Being Different for All the Right Reasons: Bullen’s commitment to supportive leadership, teamwork and workforce development fosters strong performance and creates an environment for employees to thrive.

GM CFO: Recent Inflation Jump Could Cut ’27 EBIT by $1.5B: “We obviously have work to do and we plan to do it,” Chair and CEO Mary Barra told analysts about finding ways to become more efficient next year.

Manufacturing Month Quiz: Test Your Census Smarts: A look at manufacturing history by the numbers.

Effective Daily Huddles: the Importance of Accountability: Accountability is not punishment or blame; it is a two-way commitment between workers and leaders.

Strait of Hormuz Watch: Commercial Vessel Attacks Intensify: Data and insights tracking transit activity, oil prices, petroleum reserves, supply chain impacts and geopolitical developments affecting the waterway.

Are Rogue AI Agents Pushing the Buttons on Your Shop Floor? So That Happened: Also, optimism prevails across trade shows, MillerKnoll names new leader, Misumi launches educational foundation, cyber threats frighten manufacturing boards, and 3M extends presence in data center products.

Faces of Manufacturing: 'I Love That Manufacturing Mixes Technical Work with Teamwork': "You get to use science and engineering every day, but you also rely on collaboration and problem solving to turn ideas into tangible products," says Gustavo Suarez, process engineer, Elcon Precision, a TPC Company.

AI's Honest Path Forward: Making Workers More Effective: Amplifying people is critical as the available skilled workforce shrinks.

Musk Can Wall Off Shanghai. He Cannot Wall Off China’s Supply Chain: Separating a Chinese factory is the easy part. The harder problem sits one or two tiers upstream, in the minerals and machines China controls.

Buyers of Metal Are Prioritizing Certainty Over Price. Which Means Metals CEOs Are Pushing Price: The leaders of Cleveland-Cliffs and Steel Dynamics have recently told investors that demand remains healthy while supplies are often limited. Expect prices to keep climbing into 2027.