Jerry Peerbolte
J. Peerbolte & Associates
Fort Smith, Arkansas
EASA’s 2014 research that focused on members’ customers included several questions to identify key opportunities and trends relating to the outsourcing of maintenance tasks. Overall, the trend lines continue to show more maintenance outsourcing in the future. See Chart 1 for the broad topic of preventive and predictive maintenance.
For preventive maintenance efforts, we learned that about a quarter of the end users surveyed outsource these tasks. The numbers look even better for EASAns when end users were asked about predictive maintenance practices. Here, about 40% of end user customers reported outsourcing some or all of these efforts. When asked specifically about future outsourcing plans – 17% reported plans to shift more preventive maintenance to outside contractors, and an even greater 26% suggested shifting more predictive maintenance to outside contractors.
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