This latest edition of IndustryWeek's Weekly Reads demonstrates our IW manufacturing community's ongoing interest in anything related to President-elect Donald Trump and what his administration means for manufacturing. Here is the most popular content over the past seven days.
IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards Winners: Lessons in Operational Excellence: Representatives of Raymond Corp, Sandvik Coromant, Intertape Polymer Group and Toyota Material Handling discuss how they achieve and maintain operational excellence in manufacturing.
Nearshoring: A Strategic Manufacturing Necessity Even Before Trump's Election: The shift from offshoring to nearshoring continues, driven by resilience, flexibility and proximity to core markets.
Manufacturers to Trump: Slash Regulations First: An IndustryWeek poll reveals manufacturing business leaders' top priorities for the Trump administration, including reducing regulations, closing the U.S.-Mexico border, and lowering corporate taxes.
So That Happened: New Leader at VW of America, Could Honeywell Become a 'Former' Conglomerate? IW editors look into that story and a new battery plant in Kentucky, hacking allegations of Ford customers, celebrating apprenticeships, and a quieter approach to M&A.
Washing-Machine Tariffs Come Out Clean, Sparkling for US Manufacturing: Trade experts can learn from the success of this Trump-era policy.
Tariffs, Trump and a Big Ouch at Nissan: IW Manufacturing Reads: Also, Boeing strike ends and long-lived manufacturers take a bow.
Survey: More Than Half of Business Leaders Confident in Trump Team's Economic Approach: Endeavor Business Intelligence research shines a light how the election is reshaping some priorities, expectations and confidence levels.
Stanley Black & Decker CFO Hints at Sale of Aerospace Unit: The holding company’s leaders are looking to lower their debt ratio and their industrials portfolio is likely to be trimmed.
Preparing for Trump to Shift the Manufacturing Trade Environment (Production Pulse): A different trade environment awaits post-Trump's re-election. Caution against overreaction and skepticism of vendor claims will be critical.
Five Ways Manufacturers Can Prepare Now for a Changing Tariff Landscape: Three experts in trade policy and supply chain share tips to avoid problems down the road.
