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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CMMSradio with Bryan Jolley – VP at HES Facilities Management

This episode features guest Bryan Jolley; Vice President – Facilities, Operations & Maintenance – at HES Facilities Management. We cover the backstory as a lead into Bryan’s journey and the HES journey. Bryan shares many insights relative to his experience in “built environment” and servicing some of the most important facilities in America – our Higher Education campuses that often include medical facilities – HES is very specialized and has core philosophies that drive their pursuit of excellence in what they do for their clients. They are very focused and do not do anything else. This episode is well worth a listen. We all get an opportunity to learn from Bryan and he truely wants to help the entire industry be successful. We talk about that in this episode as well. Enjoy the episode and please like and follow Enjoy the episode and please like and follow #CMMSradio

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CMMSradio with Nick Haase, Co-Founder and Go-To-Market at MaintainX

This episode of CMMSradio features guest Nick Haase, Co-Founder; Go-To-Market at MaintainX covering the origin and journey story, why it must be “Stinkin Easy,” the digital transformation movement, and more (listed below).  

• The origin of MaintainX
• The deskless frontline workforce
• A “Stinkin Easy to use” product
• Enhance existing ERP processes
• ROI showed up quickly for early adopters and data availability improved
• That Magic Moment
• “Do it really well; in a simple way”
• Core functions matter most – It sets your foundation
• Transparency makes a difference

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• C-Suite: Top-down vs bottom-up approaches
• You cannot improve what you are not measuring
• Accountability
• The global procedure library speeds up iterative changes to near real-time
• Make impact in measurable and incremental ways
• Empower all levels of the organization
• Millennials want accountability, measurability, with autonomy
• The Digital transformation movement
• MaintainX empowers people to use the system with it’s unique design
• People need a system they can put to work and drive instant value
• Where is the ROI in non-manufacturing environments?
• What’s the biggest change/trend in CMMS you see coming
• The role of #AI in CMMS

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CMMSradio with Alex Cummings FlowPath CEO and Co Founder

Alex Cummings, Co-Founder and CEO of FlowPath, joins CMMSradio to discuss his past experiences, including as a USMC Veteran, played a role in the launch of FlowPath – This journey story includes the mysterious Puffin, what sector Alex loves working with and helping, a bit about co-founders Griffin Hamilton and Brandon Cummings, and a new tool on the getflowpath.com website to help clients get a feel for FlowPath prior to engaging in the sales process. We might have a barking dog visit the show at some point. Enjoy the episode and be sure to tune in to CMMSradio to help you on your CMMS journey. Schedule a demo: https://www.getflowpath.com/cmmsradio

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Keeping Up with UpKeep – The Journey Story with Founder and CEO Ryan Chan

Keeping up with UpKeep and Ryan Chan, CMRP on CMMSradio

Just in time for #Christmas, on the one-year anniversary for the CMMSradio podcast, we have our latest video episode featuring Ryan Chan, CMRP – Founder and CEO of UpKeep – discussing the journey story. There are some great stories in this episode along with a discussion on Asset Operations Management (#AOM)- a methodology born out of the evolution of #CMMS and other best practices in maintenance.

Thank you, Ryan Chan, CMRP, for discussing your journey on CMMSradio and sharing your many insights.

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#CMMS #EAM #AOM #UpKeep #Journey

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The FlowPath Journey with Griffin Hamilton

The FlowPath Journey with Griffin Hamilton – BTW what’s a Puffin?

This episode features Griffin Hamilton, FlowPath – Facility Management Platform Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), and host of The Modern Facilities Management Podcast with 70+ episodes covering the gambit of guests sharing their insights in #facilitiesmanagement and #maintenance.

Topics covered:

• Pre-FlowPath, the gap (problem) Griffin identified
• The FlowPath – Facility Management Platform Journey
• The Modern Facilities Management Podcast
• The #Puffin
• FlowPath Integration news and the new logo
• Griffin’s advice on #CMMS deployment

Enjoy the episode! Get a FlowPath meeting here: https://www.getflowpath.com/cmmsradio

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How CMMS adds Value within Maintenance & Reliability plus Human Stuff

Get all the human stuff and shizzle with two heavy hitters from the maintenance and reliability space. Bob Latino and Ken Latino joined CMMSradio to talk about all things CMMS, maintenance management, culture, and more.

This one deserves a full listen – and less notes. Pure value, real stories, a few laughs, and practical insights to help us all on this amazing maintenance journey. Your CMMS journey matters and ALL of this tuff is right in the middle. Maintenance management, maintenance mindset, with a heavy emphasis on people and process. Enjoy this amazing episode!!! Follow @CMMSradio for updates, episodes, and musings to help us all thrive – No frills, no BS, just real insights. Be sure to connect with these fine fellows at https://prelical.com/ and get some practical reliability consulting from REAL reliability and maintenance experts. They do this work because they love it. Nothing less!!!

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