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Editor's Note

New Podcast Episode Released

Last week, we announced that IndustryWeek has partnered with lean and continuous improvement experts John Dyer and Mohamed Saleh to present Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement. Today's podcast episode, highlighted in this newsletter's 'In the Spotlight' section below, marks the third episode of this partnership. If you haven't caught the podcast, we encourage you to give it a listen. 

— Jill Jusko, Executive Editor

In The Spotlight
Podcast cohosts
Podcast: Visualizing Workflows—Navigating Value Stream Mapping vs Process Mapping
Whether it's VSM or process mapping, both mapping techniques are critical first steps to solving problems and building sustainable solutions.
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Top Stories
Allison Transmission's plant in Indianapolis is a top-performing facility and was the site of factory tours for IndustryWeek's 2024 Operations Leadership Summit. The company improved to No. 1 on the IndustryWeek 50 Best U.S. Manufacturers List for 2025, up from No. 2 in 2024.
IW U.S. 50 Best Manufacturers: Allison Transmission Tops List
Many new faces join the top manufacturers list, most notably building materials company Armstrong World Industries Inc.
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ISM Report: Manufacturing PMI Grows 0.5 Points, Registers 49% in June
Nine out of 15 manufacturing industries reported growth last month.
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Three Generations of Manufacturing Excellence
IndustryWeek Best Plants Award winner Hoffer Plastics is thriving with the grandchildren of founders in charge, as is Rocheleau Tool & Die.
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Doug Hall, right, and Joe Girgash, founders of Brain Brew Distillery. Doug was formerly a brand manager at Procter & Gamble.
Proactive Problem-Solving Decants a Bourbon-Bottle Mystery
... and more stories of empowering employees to deduce root causes on the plant floor.
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Introducing ‘Behind the Curtain,’ a Podcast That Explores the Secrets to Successful Continuous Improvement Transformations
Learn what works and doesn’t work in lean, Six Sigma and team-based operational excellence.
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From the IndustryWeek Archives
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5S without 5Y Is Just Housekeeping
A good 5S program displays a facility’s culture and mindset and allows problem prevention.
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