Nothing is more important to production managers in food companies than efficiency. While having access to better data cannot guarantee the elimination of production outages, it can head off the ...

Here's how manufacturing leaders can help their businesses prepare for the changes likely to come in 2026 and beyond.

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Since 1990, IndustryWeek has been celebrating North American manufacturing excellence via our annual IW Best Plants Awards competition. During those years, these stellar manufacturing plants have ...

Data analytics has been a revolutionary force in manufacturing, allowing those operations that avail themselves of these methods to gain greater efficiency and reduce downtime. The power of data ...

Artificial intelligence (AI), integrated into enterprise architectures through SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), is redefining how manufacturing organizations achieve operational excellence, ...

This column will introduce a lead-time metric that has seen 20 years of successful application in industry and fits-to-a-T what is needed for Next Generation Lean. This inclusion of suppliers and ...

In 2023, the cybersecurity challenges in the Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) landscape reached unprecedented levels. Ransomware, increasingly prevalent through new ...