Talking All Things CMMS with a bonafide Maintenance and Reliability Expert George Williams

Hang on to your hats!  This episode is loaded to the brim with a talk about all things CMMS with George Williams of ReliabilityX, and the Practical Reliability podcast, telling us about his background, experience, and dropping serious and practical knowledge around CMMS and maintenance and reliability best practices.  There’s too much in this one to type it all (you’re welcome).

Seriously – It’s a rock-solid episode and I look forward to the next time we can have George on CMMSradio.  Thanks George – This was awesome!

General list of topics:

• Background & experience that led up to the forming of reliability
• crossing 3000 followers on LinkedIn
• CMMS design intent – Location or Assets?
• …and how your maintenance strategy builds itself.
• The reality of CMMS in orgs.
• Making it meaningful
• Getting buy in from management & Understanding how you develop partnerships 
• grow both direct and indirect influence 
• Meeting, and more meetings
• decision making requires information and input from others
• Implementations & why adoption fails
• Get better demos by asking these questions
• skill set shortage and maintenance and the labor shortage 
• The gap between the shop floor and upper management
• services of Reliability 
• Practical Reliability Podcast
• Upcoming conferences and events