Manufacturing Returns to Growth and What's Next for 3-D Printing: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review
Welcome to IndustryWeek's Weekly Review, where we showcase the top-performing content over the past seven days. Here is this week's Top 10, plus one Editor's Choice selection.
Carbon CEO: Additive Manufacturing Ready to Move on From the Embarrassment of 2024-2025: Success depends on engineering and specialization, not using crazy investment deals to go public and buy up the competition, Phil DiSimone says.
Why Dr. Deming Opposed Management by Objectives and Quotas: Podcast: Hosts John Dyer and Mohamed Saleh explore what they call Dr. Deming's most controversial point for management transformation.
How to Drive Out Fear, the 'Biggest Destroyer of Value': Podcast hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer explore Dr. W. Edwards Deming's eighth point for management: Drive out fear.
ISM Report: Manufacturing Activity Returns to Expansion in January: Nine out of 17 manufacturing industries reported growth in the first month of 2026.
What I Learned About Leadership the Hard Way: Every failure taught me the same truth: Great leadership isn't about knowing more--it's about noticing more.
Building Teens a Training Factory of Their Own: Manufacturer Southwire's "wraparound program" in Georgia combines school-district-run classrooms with workforce education on the manufacturing floor.
US Trade Returns to Wider Deficit in November as Imports Rise: Analysts generally expected the deficit to grow, but Thursday's expansion was more than the $42.9 billion projected by surveys of Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
Grainger Posts Double-Digit January Sales Pop: Still, despite chatter of an inflection in the factory sector, Chairman and CEO D.G. Macpherson says the mood remains merely “okay.”
Gentherm Adding Modine’s Thermal Management Group in $1B Deal: Also: AIT sees “a more active pace of acquisitions” ahead and Ford’s battery storage venture gets its first president.
Lilly Announces New $3.5 Billion Manufacturing Site in Pennsylvania: The investment marks the company’s 10th U.S. manufacturing facility announced since 2020.
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