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    Toyota's Brett Wood: Continuous Improvement and Talent Management

    Sept. 24, 2024
    Toyota Material Handling CEO Brett Wood spoke at IndustryWeek's Operations Leadership Summit in June in Indianapolis.
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    2024 IndustryWeek Best Plants: Two-Way Accountability Drives Excellence at Hoffer Plastics

    Sept. 16, 2024
    Family-owned Illinois company focuses on relationships—with employees, with suppliers, with the community, among its three CEOs—to drive operational excellence.
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    IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards

    2024 IW Best Plants Award Winners: Championship Effort, Championship Achievement

    Sept. 3, 2024
    IndustryWeek is once again proud to celebrate North American manufacturing excellence. Welcome our 34th class of IW Best Plants honorees, stellar examples of the best.
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    Technology and IIoT

    Operators Connected by Technology Don’t Quit

    Aug. 16, 2024
    At a time when workforce shortages plague manufacturing, consider that a connected worker might not walk out the door and leave you hanging.
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    The 3 E's of TPS and How the Basics Never Go Out of Style

    Aug. 13, 2024
    Brett Wood, president and CEO of Toyota Material Handling North America, shares insights into the Toyota Production System.

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    Developing Problem Solvers for Operational Excellence

    June 17, 2024
    GE Healthcare’s Sarah Tilkens shares some thoughts on problem solving in advance of her presentation at the IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit this month.
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    Frontline Leaders Are Critical to Change Initiatives. So Why Are They Often an Afterthought?

    June 7, 2024
    A continuous improvement director looks at the reasons behind middle and lower-level managers’ resistance to change, and shares insights on how to turn that around.
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    Manufacturing Execution Systems Create Quality Employees

    June 5, 2024
    Confident operators are just as important as optimized workflows and performance analysis for line efficiency and quality products.
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    Fix Your Operations First, Then Technology Can Shine

    May 29, 2024
    Digital transformation can help you get to your goals, but the foundational work needs to happen first.