This can eliminate lengthy hiring searches, training programs and supervision/management. Because of the continued industry challenges in finding technically skilled manufacturing maintenance technicians - many leading manufacturers are shifting to outsourcing their technical workforce of plant maintenance technicians to an industrial maintenance and MRO services provider.īy allowing the manufacturer to still retain ownership of their reliability strategy without the burden of recruiting, hiring and training maintenance technicians, these best-in-class contract maintenance partners offer an alternative to traditional external staffing or internal recruiting initiatives by providing the highly technical workforce you need. Manufacturers inevitably realize that these workarounds, delays and negative effects are unsustainable. Taken in aggregate, these shortfalls can lead to a decline in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), a reduction in production efficiency, and a negative impact on the bottom line. This scarcity of machine maintenance technicians - and the workarounds that a firm might use to address the shortage - can lead to maintenance delays, maintenance errors, more frequent downtime, longer downtime, shorter machine life span, safety risks and more.

This involves the difficulty in recruiting and hiring experienced, technically skilled maintenance technicians to fulfill the necessary tasks that keep a facility up and running. Nearly every industry - and almost every industrial manufacturing firm - has been affected by the technical skills gap.

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