With the growing challenges facing maintenance engineers in today’s tumultuous climate, taking the pulse of the profession and getting under the skin of the issues most effecting maintenance engineers across a multitude of sectors is a valuable exercise to undertake. With that in mind, we partnered with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) to conduct a survey among its members. More than 1,200 of them responded and almost 700 of those were from the UK and Ireland. We compiled a report from the findings of the UK and Ireland responses to shine a light on some of the key issues that arose.
The resulting ‘Industry in Motion’ 2023 Maintenance Engineering Report covers five key areas: monitoring maintenance engineering, skills, the true cost of breakdowns, raising performance through stakeholder collaboration, and harnessing technology to improve efficiency. Some great insights were drawn from the survey results, and we thought it would be good to get some feedback and input from some of our customers to see how they related to these findings, and whether they mirrored their experiences. These customers joined us in roundtable discussions following our report launch, and were from organisations operating in sectors including utilities, construction, transport, automotive, manufacturing and food manufacturing.