Why AI Fails, EV Startup Raises Cash and Escaping the Illusion of Excellence: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review
Welcome to IndustryWeek's Weekly Review, where we showcase the most consumed content over the past seven days, based on our IndustryWeek manufacturing community's viewing habits. Artificial intelligence attracts significant attention in this edition, as does an automotive startup, continuous improvement and more. Enjoy.
The Top 10 are:
EV Truck Startup Slate Raises $650M, Promises Deliveries This Year: The venture’s leaders say they have more than 160,000 reservations for their customizable vehicles. Next up: Taking preorders starting in June.
Trump's New Budget Eliminates MEPs; Eight States Without Contracts: Latest claim from Trump: DEI has ruined the program.
The Big Productivity Gains Will Come from Cross-Functional AI: The interaction of generative AI, agentic AI and machine learning across different areas of an organization holds the greatest promise for optimizing talent.
AI Doesn't Fail Because of Technology. It Fails Because of Misplaced Friction: Friction that encourages discourse, process understanding and problem-solving is essential and improves outcomes.
The Progress Paradox: Why Do We Feel Stuck When Everything Is Green? Dive into the topic of suboptimization, or the “illusion of excellence,” which occurs when individual departments focus on improving their own metrics at the expense of the overall enterprise. Learn tactics to drive enterprise-wide performance.
Another Chip Shortage Is on the Horizon: With huge demand for high-bandwith memory, some semiconductor experts are predicting "RAMageddon."
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.
Get Your AI Terminology Straight: A Manufacturing Leader's Guide: If you don't know your LLMs from your MLs and agents, you're far from alone.
Business Literacy Creates a Culture of Trust Among Our Employees: Educating our manufacturing workforce on financials has increased engagement and saved money.
Fluke Puts Large Language Models to the Test: Fluke’s latest CMMS update includes AI-based tools meant to make life easier for maintenance technicians.