Organizations around the world are looking for new approaches to maintain or/and increase their competitiveness. Maintenance outsourcing as one of the methods to minimize operating cost is sometimes an alternative. For managers facing hiring freezes, cuts in training budgets, aging maintenance workforces, and hard‐to‐find skilled labour pools, outsourcing may be the single best choice to go through the tough period. The advantages seem obvious, budget flexibility,  optimization of manpower and tools, reduction of expense in hiring specialized staff and training, to mention a few, are all results of maintenance outsourcing.  At the same time, outsourcing arrangement can be changed easily in according to your maintenance needs. It’s sometimes a key reason making company choose outsourcing as the maintenance strategy.