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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