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The Q2 Factory Power Problem Is Moving From Megaprojects to Ordinary Supplier Plants Factory power delays once confined to massive battery plants and hyperscale data centers now plague ordinary suppli
Why Factory Retrofit Projects Keep Getting Delayed U.S. manufacturing capacity utilization hit 75.5088% in February, according to the Federal Reserve. Industrial production rose to 102.551. On paper,
The Best Plants Deadline Is Two Weeks Out. This Year's Applications Show What Operational Excellence Costs in 2026 April 3. That is the deadline for the 2026 IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards, and the a
Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI's joint $25 billion investment in domestic semiconductor manufacturing signals a fundamental shift in supply chain strategy, as existing foundries struggle to meet the unprecedented compute demands of robotics and orbital data centers.
Q1 Earnings Reality Check: Rockwell Automation Orders Down 8% as Machine Builders Pause Capex Rockwell Automation did not give the market a collapse story in its latest quarter. It gave something more
The 400-Person Labor Gap at TSMC Phoenix: Who Is Actually Training the Technicians? TSMC is building one of the most important manufacturing campuses in the United States, and the real bottleneck in P
Automotive Takt Times Drop to 45 Seconds: The Hidden Cost of Retooling Legacy Lines Forty-five seconds sounds like an operations victory. On an automotive line that had been built around a 58-second t
How the 15% Copper Tariff Is Wiping Out Margins for Motor Rewinders in the Midwest Copper is not supposed to be the line item that breaks a motor rewind job. Labor usually does that. Or rush freight.
Reshoring's Dirty Secret: The 8-Month Wait for 480V Power Drops in South Carolina Reshoring headlines keep coming. Battery plants. Tier 1 suppliers. Precision machining shops following aerospace work
The $40 Million Gamble: Why Mid-Tier Contract Manufacturers Are Finally Buying 5-Axis Centers March 17, 2026 The order backlog at a 220-person contract shop in Tulsa doesn't usually make headlines. Bu
Why Ford's Shop-Floor AI Agents Mark the End of Traditional Quality Inspection Published March 13, 2026 | ManufacturingMag Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant ran its last traditional end-of-line visual inspe
Cintas Buying UniFirst for $5.5 Billion: What Vendor Consolidation Means for Plant Operations Costs Cintas Corporation's $5.5 billion acquisition of UniFirst Corporation marks the largest consolidatio
The 14-Month Wait for Actuators: Who Really Wins and Loses in the 2026 Robotics Supply Chain Published March 13, 2026 | ManufacturingMag Fourteen months. That's the current lead time on precision harm