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Best Plants Benchmarking Database
IndustryWeek's Best Plants Benchmarking Database can show you how top manufacturers set themselves apart. With more than 180 different metrics, the Best Plants database provides you with enough information to profile successful practices in areas such as operations, quality, maintenance, worker productivity and more. Find out more.

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IndustryWeek's Best Plants
Scan records for all manufacturing plants that have won this award from 1990-2008.

IW 1000
Use this free database to view the entire IW 1000 or sort the list by several categories including industry, country, ranking, and financial performance measures. Among the financials captured in the database of our 13th annual list are revenue, net income, profit margin, revenue growth, total equity, and earnings per share.

IndustryWeek U.S. 500
Check out this free, searchable database based on 2007 annual revenues. View the entire list or sort by several categories including industry, state, ranking, and a variety of financial performance measures. Previous years' databases are also available.

IW's Best Manufacturing Companies
IndustryWeek's report on the 50 top-performing publicly traded U.S. manufacturers based on financial performance over the past three-year period in six areas: revenue growth, return on equity, profit margin, asset turnover, inventory turnover and return on assets.

IndustryWeek's 2009 Salary Survey: Rebuilding Manufacturing From Scratch
As the U.S. economy gets leaner and meaner, IndustryWeek's 2009 Salary Survey reveals that the average salary for manufacturing management has dropped to $95,248.

The Future of Manufacturing
A forward-looking analysis of the trends, management strategies and best practices that will help U.S. manufacturers compete successfully.