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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