Where Your Recruiting Went Wrong: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review
Welcome to the first IndustryWeek's Weekly Review for May 2026. This recap of the most-viewed content over the past seven days shows that items related to talent management attracted the most attention, with topics of recruiting, labor unions and scholarships. Beyond those, the content bag is mixed, with continuous improvement, technology and even the Artemis II space mission nabbing attention.
Without further ado, the Top 10 are:
Four Common Recruiting Mistakes Manufacturers Make—and How to Fix Them: There's a pattern of inefficiencies and mistakes that make an already difficult search significantly harder.
Do Six Sigma Belt Certifications Help or Hurt Continuous Improvement Efforts? Podcast hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer continue to explore difficult questions around lean, Six Sigma and continuous improvement, focusing their attention on the belt certification system and asking whether belts build expertise or simply create hierarchies.
Why Are Your Employees Crying Union? A Labor Relations Expert Has Some Thoughts: "Leadership will assume that this is all about pay raises or a number of things that oftentimes it's not," says Jason Greer.
How Simply Stamps Manufactured a Custom Rubber Stamp for NASA and the Artemis II Space Mission: CEO Bryan Croft talks engineering challenges, exacting requirements and how many iterations it took to create the perfect rubber stamp for lunar orbit.
How We Stopped Babysitting Our Data and Got Faster at Ford: Our recent research into processing large volumes of data identified a better way using cloud architecture.
Technology Is Changing the Meaning of Workplace Safety: Three ways to combat 'technostress' in manufacturing, just in time for World Day for Safety and Health at Work
Lean or Six Sigma: the Progress Paradox: If you're talking continuous improvement and want to spark passionate debate, try this question: Which is better—lean or Six Sigma? Our podcast hosts tackle this turbulent topic.
Tesla Capex Plans Balloon by Another $5 Billion: Among the projects underway is a Texas plant that over time will grow to produce 10 million Optimus robots per year. CEO Elon Musk told analysts and investors that Optimus could “be useful outside of Tesla sometime next year.”
GM Looks to Boost Inventory of Full-Size Pickups: CFO Paul Jacobson told analysts teams there shouldn’t be any more downtime as the company prepares to start building its next generation. “That’s what we’re going to need to lean into a little bit.”
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