Practical Remedies for Reining in Shadow AI and How to Remove Recruiting's Hidden Risks: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review
Welcome to IndustryWeek's Weekly Review, where we reflect on the most-consumed content over the past seven days at www.industryweek.com. Continuous improvement and the increasingly popular AI are leading topics for this most recent Weekly Review; however, recruiting and STEM scholarships also grabbed the attention of our manufacturing community, illustrating the industry's ongoing interest in talent management.
This week's Top 10 are:
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.
Shadow AI Is Already in Your Plant (And Banning It Makes It Worse): None of this use is typically malicious, but it's happening without guardrails or oversight.
When Things Go Wrong, Who Is Really to Blame? One hint: It’s rarely an individual worker. Have you examined your system design lately?
Alcoa Adding Aluminum Capacity to Offset War Outages: CEO Bill Oplinger said “our commercial teams have been extremely busy” working with customers looking to repair disrupted supply chains.
A Practical Guide to Recruiting in Manufacturing: We've seen so much change in how employers hire talent that outdated practices are quickly becoming a hidden risk.
Updated: IndustryWeek’s Big List of Manufacturing Scholarships: Looking for financial help with trade school or college? Check out our compendium of STEM scholarship opportunities.
US Opens Tariff Refunds Portal After Court Struck Down Trump Duties: The extent to which consumers who have borne the brunt of tariffs will be repaid depends on whether companies share the recovered funds.
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.
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.
Why Building a Manufacturing Division From Scratch Beat the Safer Bet: The steel manufacturer I worked for wanted to acquire. I steered them toward a start-up division instead.