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Manufacturers See Early AI Gains in 3 Areas

July 10, 2024

Safety

A Thoughtful Safety Program Won’t Save a Thoughtless Culture

June 18, 2024

Continuous Improvement

Developing Problem Solvers for Operational Excellence

June 17, 2024

Quality

Quality Failed Boeing, Not the Other Way Around. Here's Why.

June 14, 2024

Continuous Improvement

Frontline Leaders Are Critical to Change Initiatives. So Why Are They Often an Afterthought?

June 7, 2024

Technology and IIoT

Manufacturing Execution Systems Create Quality Employees

June 5, 2024

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Energy Management

Caterpillar, ABB, L3Harris: How Industry Leaders Are Scaling Sustainability

June 4, 2024

Manufacturers unsure where to start can look to these models in four key areas.

Continuous Improvement

Lean Manufacturing: It's Still All About People, Darnit!

July 26, 2024

A lively panel discussion featuring Sarah Tilkens, Carl Livesay and Dave Rizzardo focused on getting the most out of people by listening to them and understanding them.

Safety

Mitigating Lithium-ion Battery Fire Hazards with Chemical Industry Insights

July 17, 2024

“The LIB value chain can act as an electric resource but must think like a chemical plant,” writes Barry Perlmutter.

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Quality

So That Happened: Product Recalls Spike in Q1

June 5, 2024

IndustryWeek editors look into that story and remember manufacturing leader Barry Rogers, promotions at Allison Transmission, new plastics molding technologies and the UAW's "...

Leadership

Boeing Presents Safety Roadmap in Bid to Reassure Regulators

May 31, 2024

"Over time this is about systemic change, there is a lot of work to be done," Federal Aviation Administration head Mike Whitaker said at a news conference after a three-hour meeting...