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    Editorial eBook: Boeing in Crisis

    March 29, 2024
    The global aerospace giant shocked the world in January when a door plug blew off a plane in flight, fulfilling many flyers’ worst nightmares. And, things have gone downhill for...
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    Boeing's Organizational Problems Date Back Two Decades

    Feb. 8, 2024
    The aerospace giant began outsourcing 70% of its design, engineering and manufacturing in the early 2000s.
    IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards

    Enter the 2024 IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards Competition

    Jan. 24, 2024
    This annual awards competition salutes manufacturing excellence across North America. Deadline is March 18.
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    Dazzling Dozen: 12 of the Best in Lean and Continuous Improvement in 2023

    Jan. 9, 2024
    Top reads addressed topics from gemba walks and tennis ball challenges to winners of manufacturing excellence.
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    Quality

    To Fix Quality, You Must First Fix Culture

    Dec. 21, 2023
    Continuous improvement starts with people, not a process or methodology.
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    Continuous Improvement

    What Should I Be Observing When I Walk the Shop Floor?

    July 27, 2023
    Identifying opportunities in safety, sustaining 5s and quality should be part of leaders' daily routine.
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    Leadership

    Generation Now Leadership: Career Advancement by Design at Northrop Grumman

    May 12, 2023
    Sara Simser plots a course to manufacturing leadership. Two keys: Always be learning and don’t fear failure.
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    IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards

    2023 IndustryWeek Best Plants Finalists Announced

    May 2, 2023
    These IW Best Plants Awards finalists employ teamwork, display leadership, collaborate with their value chain partners and unfailingly focus on performance improvement.
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    Operations

    A Quality Look at QEE

    April 13, 2023
    Vita-Mix employs a novel quality metric to measure finished goods and product quality.