The Critical Connection between Digital Transformation and Sustainable Continuous improvement with John Todd, Sr.

John Todd, Sr. Consultant at Total Resource Management, joined CMMSradio to discuss his upcoming learning session at the Reliable Plant Conference happening in Orlando Florida 7/31/23 – 8/3/2023.  John is a Reliability Engineering Professional, a Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt, with extensive real-world experience and expertise.  We cover a lot in this episode including:

A preview of: The Critical Connection between Digital Transformation and Sustainable Continuous improvement

Managing just work orders is not enough. What organizations MUST do with all this great data. What John is looking forward to at Reliable Plant. The services offered by Total Resource Management and more.

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Talking CMMS Maintenance and Reliability with guest William Sloan of Eruditio

This episode features guest William Sloan, CMRP CMRT and MLE – He’s a consultant at Eruditio with a heavy focus on MRO storeroom improvements, Root Cause Analysis, asset management and more with an extensive background in all things maintenance and reliability.  The list is extensive and you can look him up on LinkedIn to learn more.  He has a Passion for Training, Teaching, and Coaching Others.

• We discuss CMMS and how it fits into maintenance and reliability best practices plus much more…
• Roort causes for CMMS failures (failed deployments, failed adoption)
• Getting to the deeper layer of a CMMS
• Why must we go deep on CMMS training?
• Challenges to gathering equipment data.
• Concerning & welcomed trends in CMMS and maintenance
• A little bit on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Better Predictive Maintenance and how CMMS plays a role with guest Cody Jackson of Effective PdM

Thank you Cody Jackson, Founder of Effective PdM, for joining CMMSradio to discuss your IMPLEMENTATION Training programs teaching maintenance teams HOW TO EXECUTE predictive maintenance programs at their own facilities.  

Cody is presenting at the Reliable Plant conference (From Training to Triumph: Empowering Maintenance Teams through Infrared Inspections) on August 3.  The conference takes place July 31 – August 3 in Orlando Florida.

When did your journey into the world of maintenance start and how did that lead to the founding Effective PdM?

You understand the way predictive maintenance actually gets done – What is it that holds in-house maintenance teams back from optimal performance?

Can you give us a brief synopsis of what people can expect from your session at Reliable Plant on August 3rd?

I would imagine you’ve dealt with CMMS platforms over the years – Where do you see the challenges when it comes to predictive maintenance vs preventive maintenance?

You’ve trained a lot of maintenance teams – Do you ever hear about CMMS being a disruption or benefit to how teams really work?

How can maintenance teams better utilize their CMMS platforms for predictive maintenance best practices?

Where should folks start if they want to move toward a PdM process?

BTW everyone – The TMCC Slack channel is back and you can connect with people like Cody Jackson and several maintenance and reliability experts.  It’s free to sign up.  Just go to upkeep.org/CMMSradio to register and join the conversation.

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Talking Lubrication Management, CMMS, and Reliability with guest Wes Cash of Noria Corporation

This episode features Wes Cash, the Vice president of services for Noria Corporation and the host of Gear Talk, the podcast that connects maintenance and reliability professionals with reliable information insights and experts, discussing his background and experience in construction, HVAC, and more that culminated into his current role at Noria.  There’s a lot covered in this episode including:

• Lubrication Management
• It’s not just about changing or toping off your oil levels
• Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
• The benefits of having both
• The Reliable Plant Conference Coming up in Orlando Florida
• How Noria is Curating knowledge
• Maintenance, Reliability, and beyond
• Gear Talk – A Noria Podcast

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CMMS for Healthcare Systems – The FSI Journey Story with Guest Joe Serwinski President and Founder

This episode features Joe Serwinski, Founder and Presdent of FSI, discussing the journey to building a purpose-built CMMS for healthcare maintenance management.

A 35-year journey during which Joe launched Facility Survey in 2002 to help hospitals collect and load the right data into their CMMS platforms.  FSI was launched later based on a specific CMMS build out for a hospital system with 17 locations.  Other hospitals wanted to use the same platform, so they entered the market with one of the first SaaS based healthcare specific CMMS platforms.  Turns out it is CMS, rather than just CMMS, which stands for Cutom Maintenance Software with a mind towards including the flexibility needed to help varying types, and sizes, of hospitals.

• The journey to creating FSI
• Worrisome trends in CMMS and maintenance
• Trends that are net positive (good) for the industry
• The importance of standardization (ASHE, etc.)
• Data for the next generation
• The role of AI
• Integrations now and in the future

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Your CMMS is the Accounting System for Maintenance and Reliability with Dr John Ross CMRP

This episode features Dr. John Ross, CMRP – The president of Maintenance Innovators, Inc. and a maintenance professional with nearly 4 decades of experience driving process improvement through teaching and implementing maintenance and reliability best practices.  There’s a lot covered in this episode thanks to John’s dedication to being a net contributor to the maintenance community.

• What’s the worst thing one can do when selecting a #CMMS and how to you assure success in your CMMS search?
• What is the factory acceptance test for software?
• CMMS is the accounting system for maintenance and reliability.
• Input vs output
• Data driven decision making is a MUST to achieve continual process improvement
• The course through Noria
• Reliable Plant Preview
• SMRP conference workshop preview – No one has ever done this!!

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The Maintenance Mindset with guest Jim Vantyghem on CMMS radio

Jim Vantyghem, CMMS Senior Support Manager at Associated Materials – Gentek Building Products, joins CMMSradio to discuss the maintenance mindset, how maintenance happens in the real world, why the basics of maintenance is so critical (and what is it), how systems create your maintenance culture, and much more.  Several decades in this space has given Jim and insight from which we can all benefit.

How do we get upper management to buy-in (to CMMS, etc.)?  You change the mindset through educating others and increasing accountability.

Why do CMMS implementations fail?

You’ve got to have an end in mind before you start!

Use a dummy database to get team buy-in as a pre-launch step.

There’s a lot more in this episode – Tune in and let us know what questions you have about CMMS, what challenges you’re facing, or share a topic you’d like covered on CMMSradio!

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CMMS radio with guest Chris Palumbo discussing Llumin CMMS+

Chris Palumbo joins Greg on CMMSradio to discuss his journey into CMMS and the Llumin CMMS+ computerized maintenance management software solution.  

Several years in manufacturing and working with plant managers, and related verticles, made moving over to Llumin a good fit to continue helping manufacturers achieve their goals.

We discuss how to make it easier for orgs by understanding the alignment of personnel when it comes to implementing a CMMS.  Helping people benchmark their curent state to then set a plan to reach their goals.

• Differentiating preventive maintenace from predictive maintenance
• Sensor monitoring and solving problems before they happen
• Reduced downtime, increased throughput, via real-time data
• Another CMMS horror story
• How Llumin helped
• The most rewarding part of engaging with clients

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The Importance of Lubrication Management in Maintenance & Reliability with Travis Richardson LubePM

This episode feature Travis Richardson discussing Noria’s LubePM – A lubrication management system – and the intricacies of designing lubrication, and oil analyses, protocols in your plant environments.

LubePM goes beyond the limits of CMMS platforms when it comes to next-level maintenance and reliability best practices and it allows for API utilization should you wish to get data from LubePM into your CMMS platform.

What is the main problem LubePM solves?

What factors go into assessing a plant environment and how does that contribute to the creation of lubrication routes?

How does this data, from LubePM, translate into the KPIs management needs to see while also being easy for technicians to handle their workload the way they like to work?

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Answering Your Burning CMMS Questions with guest Bryan Bieschke CMRP

This episode features guest Bryan Bieschke, CMRP helping us answer questions from a recent CMMSradio LinkedIn poll. We cover several questions with insights and guidance for anyone looking to find, or improve, their CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management) outcomes plus being mindful of if/when to switch CMMS platforms. Here’s a brief list of what’s covered:

• Fixing CMMS failure to launch
• Improving CMMS user adoption
• CMMS – Keep it simple or Go BIG (complex)?
• Empowering team CMMS adoption
• The mindset of maintenance techs/departments, past and present
• How to champion internal support from upper management for CMMS
• Stop looking at this as a cost
• Dollars and cents (Sense)
• Be mindful before switching CMMS systems

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CMMSradio with FlowPath CTO and Co Founder Brandon Cummings

This episode features guest Brandon Cummings – FlowPath CTO and Co-Founder sharing his view onthe origin and journey story, how data plays a critical role in modern facilities management, current and future trends in #CMMS , and the mysterious puffin that appears throughout the FlowPath journey. Brandon and his co-founders, Alex Cummings and Griffin Hamilton, came together to solve some specific problems they saw in how #cmms platforms at the time were not quite what the industry needed. The challenge – how to create a solution that works the way people actually work without all of the complexities common to most other platforms on the market. Facilities management simplified!

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CMMSradio The Facilio Journey with Co-Founder Raj Subramanian

Raj Submaranian joins CMMSradio to discuss the Facilio journey. Raj is Co-founder and head of product Strategy at Facilio – an AI-driven property operations platform providing O&M teams real-time visibility into their operations. We discuss his background, the original problem Facilio solves, advice for organization still using legacy CMMS platforms, and how AI within Facilio comes into play and why is it important to facilities operations and maintenance.

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CMMSradio with Bennett Fitch – Noria CSO

Bennett Fitch, Chief Strategy Officer of Noria Corporation, joins Greg Christensen on CMMSradio to discuss #CMMS, the critical role of lubrication in maintenance and reliability, the Reliable Plant conference, and much more. Noria gathers and curates the knowledge, learning, and best practices in reliability, lubrication management, and maintenance across industries. They have unique and powerful lubrication management system, #LubePM, built for the frontline workforce managing lubrication in manufacturing and other industries.

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CMMSradio with Bryan Bieschke – Align Machine Company

This 42-minute episode, with guest Bryan Bieschke of Align Machine Company, is packed with insights and guidance on CMMS, Maintenance and Reliability, culture and the human element, doing the basics very, very, well and the importance of your frontline workforce (the doers!) achieving fundamental excellence. It’s at least 5 episodes in one and well worth the time to watch/listen. Thank you, Bryan Bieschke, for joining CMMSradio for this episode!

This episode is PURE GOLD!

Bryan Bieschke is a Bonafide expert in maintenance and reliability best practices. He knows CMMS, and how to properly deploy a CMMS, extremely well. His background (U.S. Navy, heavy equipment mechanical expert, maintenance and reliability specialist) gives all of us a chance to learn and move into better execution using stage gating, understanding the “why” behind the change, and including the people using your solution in the pre and post CMMS selection and implementation process.

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CMMSradio with Jeremy Burge COO Louisiana Truck Stop and Gaming

Jeremy Burge, the Chief Operating Office at Luisiana Truck Stop and Gaming discusses his background and experience, along with CMMS insights, running several locations. Jeremy points out what to watch for when selecting a system and the ways he’s leveraged CMMS platforms for operational success.

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