# Manufacturing Mag

> Manufacturing today and where it's going. News, analysis, technology reviews, ranked software buying guides, and source-backed market data for manufacturing professionals.

## Sections
- [Features](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article): In-depth analysis and reporting for manufacturing leaders.
- [Wire](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news): Breaking manufacturing news with source-linked analysis.
- [Buying Guides](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/top-10): Verified, ranked shortlists of manufacturing software.
- [Sectors](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/sectors): Sector coverage with source-backed market benchmarks.
- [About](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/about): How Manufacturing Mag is produced and our editorial standards.

## Software Buying Guides
- [Best MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Software](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/top-10/best-mes-software): The leading manufacturing execution and operations-management platforms for running, tracking, and optimizing production on the shop floor.
- [Best ERP Software for Manufacturing](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/top-10/best-manufacturing-erp): The leading ERP platforms with the strongest manufacturing modules, from global enterprise suites to mid-market cloud systems.
- [Best Industrial IoT & Connected-Factory Platforms](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/top-10/best-industrial-iot-platforms): The leading IIoT, SCADA, historian, and connected-factory platforms for collecting, contextualizing, and acting on plant-floor data.

## Sectors
- [Metals](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/sectors/metals)
- [Automotive](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/sectors/automotive)
- [Aerospace & Defense](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/sectors/aerospace-defense)
- [Semiconductors](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/sectors/semiconductors)
- [Industrial Machinery](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/sectors/industrial-machinery)
- [Medical Devices](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/sectors/medical-devices)

## Recent Features
- [Your Plant Has Until November 20 to Finish HazCom 2024](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/your-plant-has-until-november-20-to-finish-hazcom-2024): Suppliers had to ship HCS 2024 safety data sheets for substances by May 19. Employers now have until November 20, 2026 to reconcile them, fix in-house labels, rewrite the written program and retrain. Mixtures come later: suppliers in November 2027, plants in May 2028.
- [How the New AI Agents for Manufacturing From Tulip, Siemens and Honeywell Compare](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/comparing-the-new-factory-ai-agent-platforms-from-tulip-siemens-and-honeywell): Tulip, Honeywell and Siemens with NVIDIA announced factory AI agent platforms within two weeks. They target different problems, sit at different stages of release, and none of them has published pricing. Here is how they compare on deployment, integration, human control and the numbers behind the claims.
- [When Should a Mid-Size Plant Register Its Own Apprenticeship Program?](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/when-should-a-mid-size-plant-register-its-own-apprenticeship-program): Federal rules set no minimum headcount for sponsoring a registered apprenticeship. What decides it is how many good mentors a plant has. Here is how a 100 to 1,000 person plant should choose between sponsoring its own program, joining a group sponsor or waiting.
- [Is Your Motor Supplier Ready for the January DFARS Magnet Rule?](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/is-your-motor-supplier-ready-for-the-january-dfars-magnet-rule): On January 1, 2027, the DFARS restriction on samarium-cobalt and NdFeB magnets reaches back to the mine. Here is how a tier-2 motor or actuator maker can map its BOM, get usable origin declarations from suppliers, and prepare a nonavailability file if no compliant capacity exists.
- [Can 3D Printed Solid Rocket Motors Reach Full Rate in 2027?](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/printed-solid-rocket-motors-face-a-2027-full-rate-test): Leidos picked X-Bow Systems to build booster motors for the Army's Low-Cost Containerized Munition. Additive propellant production can compress mix, cast and cure, but qualification, static fires and a thin sub-tier still set the 2027 clock.
- [How to Hedge Factory Power Costs Inside PJM](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/how-to-hedge-factory-power-costs-inside-pjm): PJM capacity prices went from $28.92 to $329.17/MW-day, and the market monitor says total wholesale power costs were up 50% in the first half of 2026. With capacity prices now set through May 2029, a plant's capacity tag, its contract structure and its curtailment plan are what it can still control.
- [Who Owns Lockout/Tagout When a Contractor Services Your Equipment?](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/who-owns-lockouttagout-when-a-contractor-services-your-equipment): OSHA's lockout/tagout standard doesn't pick a winner when an outside technician services your equipment. It makes the host and the contractor tell each other their procedures, and each employer remains responsible for protecting its own people. This guide covers what the rule requires, how group lockout works with mixed crews, and where host plants get cited.
- [How ASML's scanner shortage sets US fab timelines](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/what-asmls-capacity-warning-means-for-us-fab-timelines): ASML says its planned supply for 2027 and 2028 will not fully meet customer demand, and some customers want to order for 2029 and 2030. For US fabs and their suppliers, lithography slots now matter more than groundbreakings.
- [What Navy Submarine Work Demands From a Machine Shop](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/what-navy-submarine-work-demands-from-a-machine-shop): Anduril's Baltimore County yard won't open until 2030, and July's Navy submarine awards are the stronger demand signal today. This checklist is for shops weighing submarine work: traceability, weld and NDT qualifications, CUI controls, sponsorship and capacity.
- [A Supplier Audit Checklist That Starts With Corrective Action](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/a-supplier-audit-prep-checklist-for-tier-2-plants): Customer auditors write up the same clauses year after year. This week-by-week supplier audit checklist for tier-2 plants puts corrective action, control plans, calibration and traceability ahead of cleaning up binders.
- [How the Wolfspeed Pentagon loan could reshape a SiC supplier fresh out of Chapter 11](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/wolfspeeds-road-from-chapter-11-to-a-pentagon-loan): Barely a year after leaving Chapter 11, Wolfspeed has a conditional, non-binding commitment from the Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital for up to $1.5 billion over 30 years. The loan would fund silicon carbide wafers and power devices, GaN production and radiation hardening. The conditions on capital, offtake and governance matter more to buyers than the headline number.
- [The Hardest Manufacturing Jobs to Fill This Fall Are Hybrid Roles](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/which-factory-roles-are-hardest-to-fill-this-fall): Factories added only 9,000 jobs in September, yet August openings ran nearly 26% above a year earlier and quits rose to 197,000. A new Xometry survey ranks automation operators, quality engineers and maintenance technicians as the hardest roles to fill, and finds that pay raises work far better for large plants than for small shops.
- [What Is a Silicon Interposer? CoWoS and the US Supply Chain](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/silicon-interposers-and-the-gap-in-us-advanced-packaging): GlobalFoundries signed a multi-year, $2 billion deal to make CoWoS silicon interposers for TSMC in Malta, New York, with volume production ramping in the first half of 2028. Here's what the part does, what is new about the deal, and what GF has not disclosed.
- [How to Run a SMED Changeover Study on a Stamping Press](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/running-a-smed-changeover-study-on-a-stamping-press): A practical guide to running a SMED changeover study on a stamping press. Film and time the die change, separate internal from external work, streamline what is left without skipping the safety rules, and use a worksheet to decide whether the freed minutes go to capacity or to smaller batches.
- [What Adding a Third Shift Costs a Nissan Supplier](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/article/third-shift-math-for-suppliers-behind-nissans-us-localization): Nissan says its next step in the US is three shifts and no new factory. Suppliers asked to keep pace need a cost model that covers the shift differential, per-head benefits, support staff, fatigue risk and lost maintenance time, and that accounts for a customer that has changed direction twice in 18 months.

## Recent Wire
- [Musk Can Wall Off Shanghai. He Cannot Wall Off China’s Supply Chain.](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/musk-can-wall-off-shanghai-he-cannot-wall-off-china-s-supply-chain-3444040331b1)
- [Faces of Manufacturing: CEO Steps Out of Tech, Steps Into Manufacturing](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/faces-of-manufacturing-ceo-steps-out-of-tech-steps-into-manufacturing-f3bb0a966f3d)
- [Workforce Watch - Oct 21st, 2026](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/workforce-watch-oct-21st-2026-a0dbed338365)
- [Are Rogue AI Agents Pushing the Buttons on Your Manufacturing Shop Floor? So That Happened](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/are-rogue-ai-agents-pushing-the-buttons-on-your-manufacturing-shop-floor-so-that-happened-e09e2a4ed444)
- [Primo Brands opens first new factory post merger](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/primo-brands-opens-first-new-factory-post-merger-2d2376da863a)
- [Pakistan’s factory workers swelter in extreme heat as global brands fail on safety pledges](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/pakistan-s-factory-workers-swelter-in-extreme-heat-as-global-brands-fail-on-safety-pledges-e5ad23a60cfe)
- [Trump’s 50% Canada tariffs challenged in court](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/trump-s-50-canada-tariffs-challenged-in-court-0f476370ca24)
- [Napa Auto Parts revs up fulfillment efficiency with automation](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/napa-auto-parts-revs-up-fulfillment-efficiency-with-automation-b01fe13c0130)
- [Napa Auto Parts revs fulfillment efficiency with automation](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/napa-auto-parts-revs-fulfillment-efficiency-with-automation-18c896280e32)
- [Nvidia CEO urges German manufacturers to adopt AI, saying digital tech won't replace heavy industry](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/nvidia-ceo-urges-german-manufacturers-to-adopt-ai-saying-digital-tech-won-t-replace-heavy-industry-28bca3be39f8)
- [How AI, digital twins and real-time simulation are accelerating manufacturing innovation](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/how-ai-digital-twins-and-real-time-simulation-are-accelerating-manufacturing-innovation-88de5f02a502)
- [Cutter & Buck eyes fulfillment boost with second automated distribution center](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/cutter-buck-eyes-fulfillment-boost-with-second-automated-distribution-center-23a35a1597bb)
- [Supply chain visibility tells you what happened. Can you see what it cost?](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/supply-chain-visibility-tells-you-what-happened-can-you-see-what-it-cost-70216e385c5b)
- [IW U.S. 500: Top Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Manufacturing Companies](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/iw-u-s-500-top-pharmaceutical-and-biotechnology-manufacturing-companies-6555355813ca)
- [Unlocking the autonomous supply chain: Why execution data has to feed the plan](https://www.manufacturingmag.com/news/unlocking-the-autonomous-supply-chain-why-execution-data-has-to-feed-the-plan-d34c0795cf93)

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