Doing the Leadership Strategy Scramble and Enough With Industrial Humanoid Robots: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review
Welcome to IndustryWeek's Weekly Review, where we share with you the top content over the previous seven days. It's a mixed bag in this week's review, with strategy, robots and job cuts leading the topics of interest to the IW manufacturing community. Lots of company news as well, with Cleveland-Cliffs leading the pack.
Without further ado, your Top 10, plus one Editor's Choice:
Disruption Is Hitting Manufacturing from Four Directions: Multiple streams of societal and economic change are sending leaders scrambling to adjust their strategies.
Industrial Humanoid Robots: Are We Even Talking About the Same Thing? CES reinforced the possibility of humanoids in manufacturing. But it's unnecessary and even detrimental to make advanced industrial robots look human.
Challenger Report: US Job Cuts Hit January High Not Seen Since 2009: The industrial goods industry cut 1,576 jobs last month, according to the report.
Podcast: Break Down Barriers Between Departments: Dr. Deming’s Ninth Point for Management: Hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer discuss the destructive nature of silos and offer tips to bring then down.
Podcast: Breaking Down Dr. Deming’s ‘Biggest Pet Peeve’ Among His 14 Points for Management: Co-hosts Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer delve into Dr. Deming’s profound dislike for slogans, exhortations and targets for workers.
Cleveland-Cliffs Slides After CEO Pushes POSCO Tie-Up Timeline: Lourenco Goncalves also said that new supply deals with automakers will take time to show up on the steelmaker’s income statement.
Toyota Names New CEO, Hikes Profit Forecasts: The firm announced last month that global sales hit a new record in 2025, helping it retain its title as the world's top automaker and widen the gap with German rival Volkswagen.
Six Moves That Saved My Manufacturing Business (and Could Save Yours): A look at the BASICs, one manufacturing CEO's framework for every acquisition and turnaround he's tackled.
Kraft Heinz Halts Work on Separation, and M&A Wave Builds: So That Happened: IndustryWeek editors look into those stories and robot numbers on the rise, European CFOs less bullish than U.S. counterparts, and a new workforce development partnership for metalworking.
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 DeSimone says.
Editor's Choice
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