Welcome to IndustryWeek's Weekly Review. The title is not entirely accurate for this week's edition, given that it addresses the top content over the past two weeks rather than the past seven days. We did not publish last week due to the Independence Day holiday.

Given that this effort covers the past two weeks, we are sharing a baker's dozen, or 13, of the top items rather than our more typical 10. Without further ado, here is the Top 13:  

July 4th Quiz: Manufacturing Americana! Test your knowledge of baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and ... you know.

Toyota to Invest $3.6 Billion in Texas, Move Production From Mexico: Toyota plans to build a second assembly line at its San Antonio factory, increasing annual production capacity at the plant by 150,000 units, the company said in a statement.

Updated: Late MEP Awards Roll In: The Department of Commerce's NIST agency was again late on renewing contracts.

Inside the USMCA Review: Timeline, Tensions and What Comes Next: Holland & Knight’s Patrick Childress outlines where negotiations stand, proposed changes to the treaty, and what the outcome of those negotiations could mean for automotive manufacturers.

The Three Human Skills That Make AI Work in Procurement: The next era of procurement belongs to organizations that build talent capable of translating intelligence into outcomes.

More Warning Signs That Your Lean Initiative Is Going Off The Rails: In this episode of Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement, hosts John Dyer and Dr. Mohamed Saleh point to symptoms within your daily management system—specifically visual boards and leader standard work—that suggest your continuous improvement initiative is floundering.

UAW Members Vote to Authorize Strike at Woodward MPC in Niles: Union members also announced plans for a practice picket outside the Illinois facility.

Industrial AI Will Fail Without a New Pricing Model: Manufacturers offering AI services should be charging based on outcomes, not consumption.

When Problem Solving Is the Problem: Warning Signs That Your Lean Initiative Is Going Off the Rails, Part 3: In this episode of Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement, hosts John Dyer and Dr. Mohamed Saleh continue their discussion of common signals of a lean initiative headed for failure, focusing on the symptoms of shallow problem solving and centralized continuous improvement teams.

China's New Production Strategy Will Put a Dent in US Auto Exports: Expect fewer exports, higher inflation and technical stagnation for 'Fortress America.'

Ford Engineers Beat AI, and Unions Are Finding Their Groove: So That Happened: IndustryWeek editors look into those stories as well as Martin Marietta's multibillion-dollar purchase and Meta's aim to build data center builders.

US Won't Renew USMCA in Current Form: The trade pact decision likely will fuel uncertainty for businesses in North America, given the deep integration across supply chains in sectors like automobiles.

The Manufacturing Workforce Isn't Missing—It's Mislabeled: The interest and aptitude exist. What's missing is the connection between what students are already doing and the industries that desperately need them to do it.