Maintenance Crisis Resource Center

Welcome to the Maintenance Crisis Resource Center

America’s industrial infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities are threatened by an increasing shortage of skilled maintenance personnel. This is because the existing workforce is aging and retiring or leaving the profession, and not enough qualified young people are aware of or interested in this demanding but poorly respected field.

This set of resources is designed to help industrial plant maintenance and asset management practitioners mitigate damage to their companies due to a lack of trained, experienced, motivated maintenance professionals. It will be updated frequently, so please visit often.

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Crisis Dimensions | Ring tones | MP3s | Articles | Training Resources

Consulting Resources | Crisis-Aware Vendor Programs | The Next Generation

Get Connected | Add a Resource

Download the “Potential Career Path" power point presentation referenced in the  Fix it Forward article.

Help us build the Fix it Forward Maintenance Hall of Fame.

Crisis Dimensions:

• Birth of a maintenance evangelist
• Averting the maintenance crisis
• Survey on reliabilityweb.com

Get Motivated:

Ringtones

• Hip-hop version of Maintenance Crisis Song
• Funk version of Maintenance Crisis Song
• Opera version of Maintenance Crisis Song
• Find Me a Maintenance Woman

MP3s

• Maintenance Crisis song
• Maintenance Crisis Song rock
• Maintenance Crisis Song reggae
• Maintenance Crisis Song blues
• Maintenance Crisis Song bluegrass

Know of any other plant-related tunes?  Send them to us.

• Reach for the Ska!
• An obituary and farewell to reactive maintenance
• Signs of revitalized maintenance
• Yo! ASHRAE rap video promotes engineering as career

Solve a Problem:

Articles

• Maintenance Crisis comes to Capitol Hill: Lessons learned in D.C.
• Think you’re smarter than a maintenance technician?
• Uniform job standards aim at defining the profession
• Europe shares common threads in the Maintenance Crisis
• Model car enthusiasts provide good example for maintenance workers
• No longer one hand clapping - instigate action with your work
• Power of maintenance
• Take care of your older technology
• Maintenance profession needs to increase the number of qualified candidates
• Seven secret principles of getting a raise
• How much is ignorance costing your organization?
• Averting the maintenance crisis
• Appreciate the memories
• Maintenance professionals must lead the effort for change
• Clear up the media cloud
• Katrina exposes the nation to the maintenance crisis
• Looking for Mr. Goodjob
• Shareholders caught up in crisis?
• Are women welcome?
• A familiar fight for women
• Maintenance profession needs to increase the number of qualified candidates
• How much is ignorance costing your organization?
• Deferred maintenance costs pile up

Training resources

• MPACT Learning

Consulting resources

• Life Cycle Engineering

 Crisis-aware vendor programs

• Milwaukee Tool’s RESPECT

The next generation

• From pop star wannabes to maintenance heroes
• Formal training and mentorship key to protecting future
• Put stock in training
• Recruiting the future
• The American Association of Community and Grainger partner to help students
• Maintenance crisis corner: Calling all students
• Maintenance gets a new rap
• Maintenance crisis goes hip-hop
        

Get Connected to Associations:
       Tired of being a lone wolf? Join a pack. Joel Leonard describes why.

• Association for Facilities Engineering
• Building Owners & Managers Association International
• International Facility Management Association
• Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals
         

Add a Resource: Send news of other resources, links, or your comments to the Maintenance Crisis Resource Center.