Who we serve / Industrial machinery
The people who know the machine are retiring faster than the machine is.
What is happening
3.8M
manufacturing jobs the US could need to fill between 2024 and 2033.
Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, 20241.9M
of those jobs could go unfilled if the skills gap is not addressed.
Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, 202465%
of manufacturers surveyed call attracting and retaining talent their primary business challenge.
Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, 2024
Our view
Walk a plant floor and the procedures are in a binder, on paper, and a few years behind the machine. The work gets done anyway, because one or two experienced people know how. What we keep hearing is that the maker's manual lists the parts and the basic tasks, and stops short of the involved repairs, which are the ones that matter.
Heavy equipment outlives the careers of the people who built it. We think the hiring numbers are the wrong thing to stare at. The plants that do well through the next decade will be the ones where a second-year technician can do a first-rate job, because the knowledge sits with the machine and not with a person. The people who do the work every day know where the slow steps are. Today that knowledge has nowhere to go.
That starts with the builder, and it gets harder with every customised machine that leaves the factory. The company that designed it holds the only complete description of it, the CAD, and is the only one that can keep procedures true to what was actually shipped.
Where Machinebase fits
- Assembly, maintenance and repair procedures drafted from the CAD you already have.
- Every step shown on the real 3D model of the machine, in a browser at the machine.
- One source for the factory floor and for your customers' maintenance teams.