Welcome to May 2025 and our first IndustryWeek's Weekly Reads for this month. As a reminder, the Weekly Reads showcases the top-forming content on IndustryWeek.com over the past seven days, as chosen by the IW manufacturing community. And while we encourage you to catch up with our Top 10 list, don't forget there is a wealth of additional content that is sure to interest you.
Without further ado:
How John Deere Conquered 5G for Manufacturing: The benefits and challenges of deploying private 5G cellular networks for cutting-edge manufacturing operations.
Slate's Minimalist Electric Pickup: A Throwback to Affordable Vehicles: Slate, backed by Jeff Bezos, aims to launch a minimalist electric pickup with hand-cranked windows and no sound system, priced under $20,000.
The Doer Trap: How Leaders Get Stuck and How to Break Free: If you're always the one solving the problems, nothing truly changes.
Shining a Light on a Century of Manufacturing: What manufacturers have been around for 100 years or more? These seven have, and we salute them.
Airbus Finalizes Deal for Spirit AeroSystems Assets: Boeing announced last year a deal to acquire Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion, bringing back in house a key supplier that it had spun off in 2005.
Opportunities and Challenges from Tariffs: Production Pulse: IndustryWeek editors discuss how President Donald Trump's new tariffs announced this week will ripple through the manufacturing world. Expect lots of winners and losers from the dramatic shift in the industrial landscape.
Nucor Executives Stick to Positive Demand Growth Outlook: “What we are not seeing is […] this massive buildup and a drop-off and a holding pattern of projects,” Leon Topalian told analysts.
So That Happened: Making Battery Materials in the US: IndustryWeek editors look into that story and a dog food strike ending, Ford learning from Asian partners, Florida recruiting manufacturing talent and Chobani adding more yogurt to the US.
Washing-Machine Tariffs Come Out Clean, Sparkling for US Manufacturing: Trade experts can learn from the success of this Trump-era policy.
Intel Chief Vows to Thin Ranks at US Chipmaker: Intel reported a loss of $800 million on revenue of $12.7 billion in the first three months of this year.
