A wide breadth of topics captured the attention of our IndustryWeek manufacturing audience in this issue of IW's Weekly Review, which shares the most-consumed content over the past seven days. From AI to tariffs, and lean myths to food and beverage leaders, variety is the spice of this week's review.  

Is Your A3 Form Helping Problem-Solve, Or Just Checking Boxes? Three questions to ask before picking countermeasures.

Podcast: What’s Ahead for Manufacturing Extension Partnerships? In this episode of Great Question: a Manufacturing Podcast, Carrie Hines of the American Small Manufacturers Association talks about moving forward with MEPs after uncertainties in federal funding.

Rockwell’s Singapore Lighthouse Plant Heavily Leverages AI: The facility’s AI deployments run the gamut, from venerable machine learning to new agentic AI systems.

US-China Trade Talk: White House Releases List of Products US, China Could Tax Less: The U.S. list targets 77 categories of Chinese goods, while China's import list includes more than 1,600 categories of American goods.

Lean Myth 12: Debunking the 'We're Too Busy for Lean' Myth: Your perceived ‘lack of time’ may reflect an array of other corporate woes instead, suggest the hosts of Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement.

Manufacturers Can’t Transform at the Speed of AI. So What Should They Do? We are witnessing the collision of two fundamentally different clocks.

Lean Myths Debunked: A Successful Kaizen Event Means the Problem Is Solved: True success is defined by long-term sustainability rather than initial implementation.

The Two-Cent Part That Shut Down a Factory for a Month: It wasn't one of the failure modes that anyone had thought to instrument.

2026 IW U.S. 500: Top Food and Beverage Manufacturers: Browse the top 10 makers of food and beverage products from the IndustryWeek U.S. 500.

America Needs More Manufacturing Capability, Not More Factories: Operations leaders are trained to look for bottlenecks, but the constraint may sit outside the plant.