Welcome to IndustryWeek's Weekly Review, where we present the most-consumed content on IndustryWeek.com over the previous seven days. Conversations around failure and manufacturing constraints attracted the attention of our manufacturing audience this past week, as did automotive articles and labor shortage discussions. The Top 10 are: 

The Two-Cent Part That Shut Down a Factory for a Month: It wasn't one of the failure modes that anyone had thought to instrument.

America Needs More Manufacturing Capability, Not More Factories: Operations leaders are trained to look for bottlenecks, but the constraint may sit outside the plant.

Lean Myth 11: Lean Fails Because People Resist Change: Lean and Six Sigma adoption often fail not because people inherently resist change, but because organizational trust, context, capability, and implementation practices are overlooked.

2026 IW U.S. 500: Top Motor Vehicle Companies (slideshow): 2025 brought a parade of challenges for automakers, and some met the steady drumbeat more capably than others.

GM CFO: Real EV Improvement Will Be a ’28 Story: At a Morgan Stanley conference, Paul Jacobson said new battery project is set to improve cars’ performance and economics. Also: Rivian’s R.J. Scaringe discussed his team’s mass-market plans.

Chip Constraint Sows Concern; US Rare Earth Resolve Reawakens: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review: The IndustryWeek manufacturing community turned its attention to those topics, as well the skilled labor shortage, AI's impact on competitive advantage, leading aerospace and defense manufacturers, and more.

Memory Chips Are in Short Supply. Why Isn't the US Ramping up Production? This fast-emerging constraint could slow progress and raise costs for American consumers.

Podcast: With The Post-AI Age On The Horizon, How Are Operations Executives Preparing? In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Chuck Orzechowski and Josh Renicker of the COO Forum discuss how operations leaders are navigating AI-driven disruption and workforce change.

Add 'Certainty' to Manufacturing's Wish List: So That Happened: Also, California shut out of funding, semiconductor training lab opens, Hammond invests in Fort Worth, and state of manufacturing report shows big disconnect.

Podcast: The 2026 Skilled Labor Shortage and How Manufacturers Are Bridging the Gap: In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, IndustryWeek’s Anna Smith explores how an aging workforce and the reshoring drive are contributing to the skilled labor shortage — and what manufacturers are doing to address it.