We, at Scientific Management Techniques, decided to pull together data from our forty-six years of mechanical hard skills assessments into a simple but effective chart.  The results demonstrate a clear, steady decline in mechanical troubleshooting skills over the past four and a half decades.  And we don’t need the data to know this, we hear it from the ground every day from our global manufacturing clientele.

Used to collect the data, the Standard Timing Model (STM), our mechanical skills assessment tool, is used to identify mechanical skills and competencies when hiring Maintenance Professionals, Machine Operators, Electro-Mechanical Personnel, Assemblers and Technicians. There are varying degrees of assessment difficulty depending on the position you’re hiring or evaluating.  In addition, the STM is an effective tool for determining mechanical aptitude and determining training needs.

Our assessment programs have been validated thirty-eight times at the Ph.D. level, proving their effectiveness at identifying the most skilled, most capable, and most trainable candidates and incumbents.

The end result is that the manufacturing skills gap is real, and it will continue to significantly impact the bottom line of manufacturers globally.  What has led to this skills gap could be debated at length, but we believe it is critical to move forward with a solution-based skills strategy to embrace your manufacturing workforce pipeline.

If you’d like to know more about the unique, hands-on skills assessment and training solutions we offer, please contact us, we’d welcome the opportunity to customize a program for you and your team.

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SMT provides two highly effective solutions to the Manufacturing Skills Shortage.  SMT will highlight it’s Hands-On Manufacturing Skills Assessment Programs and “Competency-Based” Manufacturing Skills Training Programs to national leaders and stakeholders in workforce, community, and economic development.

Education institutions employ Scientific Management Techniques’ solutions to dramatically improve employment and industrial productivity in their communities. World-class manufacturing organizations use Scientific Management Techniques to drive productivity, identify/develop talent and maximize profitability in their facilities.

Twelve of SMT’s manufacturing skills assessment and training programs are recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT®).

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