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

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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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