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Addressing Operation and Maintenance Workforce Limitations

Packaging and processing professionals provide insight into practices to address workforce limitations and barriers of potential solutions.

Adressing Operation and Maintenance Workforce Limitations
Industry professionals note several seemingly effective practices and barriers to limitations.
PMMI Business Intelligence: Technology & Workforce: Using Smart Technologies to Bridge the Skills Gap

Bridging skill gaps and labor shortages within the packaging and processing industry remains an important objective. Enhancing employee performance and making manufacturing roles more attractive and sustainable in the long-term are two goals industry professionals agree on, and there are seven practices seen as most effective in addressing operation and maintenance workforce obstacles.

That’s according to PMMI Business Intelligence’s “Technology & Workforce: Using Smart Technologies to Bridge the Skills Gap,” a report that captures insight from packaging and processing end-users and OEMs on the role technology can play in addressing the increasing skills gap and the burden of costly training periods for new hires. The report stems from a Q&A session and roundtable discussions between expert panelists and industry participants at PACK EXPO International 2024.

The intelligence team surveyed industry attendees and asked about the practices, technologies, or services that would be most effective in addressing operation and maintenance workforce limitations. The results are shown below:

Chart: Adressing Operation and Maintenance Workforce LimitationsParticipants were asked to choose the most effective option for their business from the list provided.PMMI Business Intelligence: Technology & Workforce: Using Smart Technologies to Bridge the Skills Gap

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