Welcome to IndustryWeek's Weekly Review, where we highlight the most-consumed content over the previous seven days. This week, tariffs and manufacturing excellence were the top topics that grabbed our manufacturing audience's attention, but there was also a lot more, including a new jobs report, a Labor Day quiz and executives on the move. Without further ado, the Top 10 are: 

Can't Control the Tariff or the Strait? Redesign the Product: Three levers manufacturers can pull to ease supply chain pain.

2026 IndustryWeek Best Plants Award Winners: Four Factories Rise to the Challenge of Manufacturing Excellence: IndustryWeek celebrates this 36th class of IW Best Plants honorees, showcases of exceptional performances, delivered by exceptional teams.

US Adds 162,000 New Jobs in August, Beating Expectations: Manufacturing picked up 16,000 jobs. The strong report also revised up job numbers for June and July by a combined 55,000, indicating that the U.S. labor market remains in a state of steady growth.

Labor Day Quiz: Test Your Smarts About Worker History: Labor Day honors and celebrates American workers. How much do you know about Labor Day, and pivotal events in union history?

GE Appliances to Invest $1 Billion to Expand Laundry Manufacturing at Kentucky’s Appliance Park: The announcement builds on a $490 million investment announced last year to reshore production of select clothes washers from China.

Building a Better Small Manufacturers Ecosystem: In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Ilana Preuss of Recast City discusses regional collaboration, outreach and advocacy, and how manufacturers of any size can help increase the visibility of the small supplier community.

Lean Myth No. 7: If Lean Is Working, You Should Have Fewer Problems: The truth is that lean makes problems more visible, say the hosts of Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement. The only way to improve is to develop a culture that embraces the uncovering of problems, which actually can make reality appear worse, they argue.

Abandoned Manufacturing Acquisition, Eyebrow-raising Audit and Let's Test Your Knowledge: IndustryWeek's Weekly Review: The IndustryWeek manufacturing community turned its attention to those topics, as well as GE Appliances' big investment, a widening trade gap, a better alternative to cutting people and more.

On The Move: Executive Changes at Ford Energy, Rivian and Mission Critical Group: An Engie executive comes to Ford while Rivian’s CFO will move east this fall and join GE Vernova.

How Do We Make AI Understand Our Factory? Customization in AI is manufacturing's next competitive edge.