What are the key challenges maintenance engineers face today?
RS, partnered with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), took the pulse of the maintenance engineering profession to create Performance in Focus.
This 2024 maintenance engineering report is based on the findings of a survey conducted among IMechE members in the UK and Ireland, and launched this September!
In this webinar, The Manufacturer’s multimedia Editor, Tom St John, in discussion with Richard Jeffers, solutions and technical director at RS UK&I, talk through the rich insights within the report and delve into the challenges and priorities of maintenance engineers today.
Richard guides us through the impact of:
- Unscheduled downtime
- Strategies & Priorities
- Maintenance maturity
- Data
If you work in this field and want to find out what your peers in this profession are thinking, join us to discover the true landscape of maintenance engineering today, from the people in the know.
Speakers:
Richard Jeffers
Solutions and Technical Director, RS UK&I
Richard Jeffers, a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Victoria University of Manchester and a Fellow of the IMechE since 2014, has held key engineering and operational roles at Cookson Group plc, Lionheart plc, and Heineken UK Ltd, where he led major capital projects. After working in consultancy, he joined RS Group plc in 2017, where he led the acquisition of Monition Ltd and has since focused on developing digital solutions for industrial customers. In April 2024, Richard assumed leadership of the Solutions and Technical functions in RS Group’s UK business.
Tom StJohn
Multimedia Editor, The Manufacturer
Tom is the Multimedia Editor at The Manufacturer (part of Nineteen Group). His professional background is in broadcast journalism; in tv and radio. As well as writing for The Manufacturer Magazine, he leads on all our video content and is a presenter on The Manufacturer Podcast. Tom has thoroughly enjoyed immersing himself in the stories that our manufacturing and vendor communities have to tell, and views sessions like these as a valuable extension of that.