In this week's Industrial Innovation Advocate, we're celebrating the industrial innovators on Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies List. Top 3 in the industrial category are profiled below. Others on the list include Squint, Stratasys, Keychain, Blackline Safety, and Ursa Major. Also we discuss signs of the long-awaiting signs of a rebound in additive manufacturing. And what's the impact of agentic AI on the factory floor?

Hey there, thanks for joining the Industrial Innovation Advocate this last day of meteorological winter. This week, 3M outlines their approach to manufacturing and supply chain automation in service of operational excellence KPIs, Axios highlights an increasingly fragmented media landscape, and a look at whether we're turning a corner on M&A in industrial segments.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! This week in the Industrial Innovation Advocate, Lumafield raises a big Series C for industrial CT scanning and illustrates how they build their brand through mainstream business and tech media, plus industrial tech founders on the rise, and why Amazon's approach to innovation works.

It's another cold Friday in Minneapolis but spring is coming! Meanwhile, industrial innovation continues to advance. This week, we're talking about where the value is happening in additive manufacturing, why manufacturers aren't getting the ROI from R&D and technology that they should, and what industries are building manufacturing plants across the U.S. right now.

Welcome to another edition of the Industrial Innovation Advocate. This week, we discuss how the threat of increased tariffs might affect additive manufacturing, and what AI holds for manufacturing in the year ahead. But first, Pearson Consulting is Now Narratio Marketing & Communications.

Welcome to the Industrial Innovation Advocate. We're back to our regular programming of advanced manufacturing and industrial technology news and marketing observations. But Friday morning got away from me so I'm giving you reading for MLK Day instead. This issue, we look at industrial innovation news from CES, TSMC's new fab in Arizona, and an instructive look at industrial 3D printing sales in Q3.

Happy 2025, everyone! It's a time for hope despite uncertainties and I wish everyone the best in every aspect of their lives in the year ahead. A year ago, there was no Industrial Innovation Advocate and I have kept it up for you all since last spring. It has been fascinating to learn with you about so many of the innovations that drive manufacturing and the industrial economy, growing out of my own experience at additive manufacturing company Stratasys.

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to the last edition of the Industrial Innovation Advocate for 2024. I thought it would be fun to look back at my top 3 editions this year and provide an update on one of the stories for each. We'll look at progress made in implementing the US National Defense Industrial Strategy, with a particular focus on additive manufacturing; Reindustrialize Conference host Newlab's successes nurturing up-and-coming industrial innovators; and AWS's progress on industrial IoT and GenAI in manufacturing since IMTS. So without further ado, here we go:

I'm excited to see qualified metal AM parts being delivered for submarines in the U.S. Also encouraged to see the potential for some innovation to address the gap between the skilled manufacturing workers we need and how our educational system currently tries to meet that need. And read on to understand how the seemingly intractable problems behind these stories are what make them so compelling.