Case Studies

Return On Investment
The MPACT program was piloted in Burlington Industries at a plant that had 95 maintenance personnel. A team was assembled to track costs in a number of different areas before the start of the program and for the first year of its operation.

As procedures and record keeping improved, it became apparent that costs associated with maintenance were dropping – slowly at first then more quickly as time passed.

By the end of the first year it was determined that cost reduction had reached the rate of $1,100,000 per year or $11,500 per maintenance man – a 2.9 times return on investment.

The Sharecropper’s Son
A Mississippi-based manufacturing plant was introduced to the MPACT® pay-for-skills program. One of their employees, the son of a sharecropper, had almost no formal education. When the program was announced, he told his family that because he could neither read nor write he would not be able to participate. But his children, who had been educated at his insistence, had other ideas. They began teaching their father the skills he had insisted they acquire. The plant pitched in with additional remedial reading and math training. After he reached an appropriate level, he enrolled in MPACT®. Several years later he reached the top mechanic position.

The Grandfather Who Changed His Mind
An electrician at a manufacturing plant in Virginia was “grandfathered” when the MPACT® pay-for-skills program was introduced. That is, because he was already in the Maintenance Department, he was allowed to opt out. A number of years later, the plant was shut down and 600 people lost their jobs. But when the company decided to reopen the plant to make a different product a few months later, he had the seniority to be one of the first two rehires.

The Vice President of Engineering was up to check on the status of the plant conversion, and met the two rehired electricians. He asked how they had fared after the shutdown. The first replied that because he had completed MPACT®, he had his choice of jobs and never missed a day of work. The “grandfather” explained that no one would hire him without MPACT® certification, and asked if the program would be restarted. It was, and he enrolled, making it through the electrical, instrument, and digital curricula.

The Familiar Face
A company that had never visited the MPACT Learning Center sent the maintenance manager, a supervisor, and a technician in to a Value Added Maintenance workshop. The technician looked familiar to us - for a reason: he had been to many MPACT classes while at a different company. His plant had been shut down several years earlier, and now he was with the new company. The maintenance manager pulled us aside and said he had NEVER seen such a skilled technician. Didn't surprise us - he was MPACT trained!