Defunding, Dr. Deming and Digging into Manufacturing Wages: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review
Welcome to the first IndustryWeek's Weekly Review for the month of December 2025. The title of this edition is a slight misnomer in that we are sharing with you the top content from the past two weeks, or 14 days, instead of our regular look back over the past week. This unusual cadence is a result of the Thanksgiving holiday last week, which saw us not publish this feature last Friday.
Without further ado, our top 10 most-viewed content over the past 14 days is as follows:
EV Notes: Rivian Grows More Confident in R2’s Unit Economics: Also: Scout picks its U.S. HQ and an autonomous electric truck company strikes a SPAC deal.
Trump Administration Plans to Defund MEPs Next Year, Ignoring Congress’ Allocation: Programs in all 50 states threatened as NIST plans not to distribute funds that lawmakers allocated to the manufacturing extension partnerships.
Podcast: Key Factors that Accelerate or Impede Organizational Advancement: Summary: Hosts John Dyer and Dr. Mohamed Saleh reflect on their favorite discussion topics from past episodes and highlight the No. 1 driver of successful organizational change.
IndustryWeek’s 2025 Salary Survey: Wages Recover Following Turbulent Year for Manufacturing: Our respondents say tariff troubles, labor retention issues and AI implementation are some of the biggest challenges currently facing the industry.
Podcast: Why Dr. Deming and Why Today: Hosts John Dyer and Dr. Mohamed Saleh delve into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, often referred to as the father of the quality movement, and his influence on the Toyota Production System.
Podcast: Dr. Deming's ‘Wake-up Call’ for Unwilling Management: Hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer explore Deming’s second point for management transformation, which they say takes aim at management and leaders who persist in pursuing outdated practices rather than evolve.
Manufacturing Inches Into Expansion Territory: Pharmaceuticals, aerospace, and a few other sectors are propelling the industry into a recovery phase, says the latest quarterly review from Manufacturers Alliance and Oxford Economics.
Section 232 Steel Tariffs Are Getting Results: America needs trade tools that can advance our national and economic security interests.
'Did We Do a 5 Why to Figure This Out?' Readers Respond to MEP Cuts: Manufacturing Extension Partnerships need a re-examination, say some, while others find the Trump-administration cuts tone-deaf to the needs of manufacturers.
How We Avoided Layoffs When Layoffs Were Inevitable: The chairman of Barry-Wehmiller recalls the company’s ultimate test of its culture during the Great Recession, lessons that are relevant today.