Communicating Complex Topics
Abstract
Enrico and Fred discuss a few approaches that may be effective when communication complex topics to others.
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SOR 1078 Communicating Complex Topics
CR054: Capturing the Story of the Tradesperson with Jake Bailey of Rising Eagle Media
Capturing the Story of the Tradesperson with Jake Bailey of Rising Eagle Media
You want real? You want your story told right from someone who gets it? Look no further than Jake Bailey and Rising Eagle Media!!
The Goal: “Capture the story of the Tradesperson.”
This is a special episode with a featured guest with a vision and skillset for our time and for our cause. The trades are near and dear to Jake’s heart and soul. His passion comes from real-world experience as a heavy equipment mechanic, US Military service, and he’s run the gambit to set a foundation of excellence in the pursuit of visual storytelling. He’s not just capturing images and photos like the rest. He’s capturing the brilliance of what really happens in trenches and making what might be construed as mundane, exciting and impactful. He calls is capturing the dragon!!
We’re so happy to have this amazing and real af conversation with Jake to learn all about his passion and why it matters to our industry. At the heard of any environment using a CMMS is the people, process, and knuckle busting work that MUST happen. Get to know Jake, Rising Eagle Media, and the importance of mindset in maintenance and repair!!
Connect with Jake for a consultation call if you’re ready to have your story in filed service told the right way!! Tell them CMMSradio sent you. https://www.risingeaglemedia.com/ or hit the contact form here: https://www.risingeaglemedia.com/contact
QDD 171: Blank Flipcharts Don’t Make Magic, But Templates Do
Blank Flipcharts Don’t Make Magic, But Templates Do
In product development, the “fuzzy front end” of concept development often represents both tremendous opportunity and significant challenge. During this critical phase, teams are tasked with defining problems, understanding customers, and generating solutions—all before any engineering begins.
How we navigate this phase dramatically impacts bottom-line results, market share, customer satisfaction, and whether projects even launch at all.
What makes concept development particularly difficult is that teams typically lack something concrete to discuss. Without prototypes or developed products, conversations can become abstract and unfocused. This challenge is compounded when cross-functional team members approach problems from vastly different perspectives, sometimes unknowingly working to solve entirely different issues altogether.
The traditional approach of gathering everyone in a room for open brainstorming sessions has proven remarkably ineffective. Research confirms what many of us have experienced: teams engaged in unstructured brainstorming typically generate fewer ideas, and those ideas are often of lower quality compared to more structured approaches.
The solution lies in using visual models and templates—structured frameworks that guide the creative process and facilitate meaningful team collaboration.
CR053: Misunderstood Terms & Myths in Maintenance & Reliability plus CMMS Guest Shon Isenhour
Misunderstood Terms & Myths in Maintenance & Reliability plus CMMS Guest Shon Isenhour
Another great episode featuring expert guest Shon Isenhour, CMRP CAMA of Eruditio talking about misunderstood terms and concepts (a little myth busting maybe) and the role of CMMS in maintenance operations.
There’s a lot covered in this episode – BS Flags, Trees on Fire, CMMS Spinal Cord, Process + Tech for big ROI, and much more.
Let us know, in the comments, what you think or add the conversation – You do not have to be right, just participate!!
- Planned vs. Scheduled Maintenance
- Regional Cultural Differences
- Organization Specific Definitions
- PM, or Preventive Maintenance, Specificity vs. OEM Recommendations
- Effective First, Efficiency Second!
- RCA Before you Change
Engineering Framework to Assess Equipment Reliability
Engineering Framework to Assess Equipment Reliability of Air Fin Coolers in Process Plant Industries
podcast episode with guest speaker Dheerajkumar Narang
Air fin coolers are one of the most important assets in process plant facilities for ensuring continued operational excellence and production rate of the process plant. There are numerous remaining life assessment (RLA) and reliability engineering (RE) methodologies available for performing condition assessment of the air fin coolers. Most methodologies concentrate on the mechanical integrity (MI) aspects of air fin coolers such as the header box and fin tubes life assessment using recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices (RAGAGEP) to primarily address the loss of containment (process fluid) scenarios. There is rarely a comprehensive methodology or framework that also covers the dynamic parts such as fin blades, electrical motor, gear box and propeller (fan) in assessing remaining life of the air fin coolers. This article will outline a thorough reliability engineering or remaining life assessment framework (holistic methodology) that will cover both the mechanical integrity (header box and fin tubes) and reliability aspects (fin blades, electrical motor, gear box and propeller) aspects enabling the asset integrity (reliability & maintenance) engineering personnel to generate a technical, coherent, and auditable reliability report for the air fin coolers. This technical webinar is based on a poster session that was originally presented at the 2024 AiCHE Spring Meeting and 20th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans, LA.
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CR052: Say It Louder – CMMS Selection Reliability Insights Barriers to Adoption and More with Erik Hupje
Say It Louder – CMMS Selection Reliability Insights Barriers to Adoption and More with Erik Hupje
We are so lucky to have Erik Jupje, of Reliability Academy, join for this episode on #CMMSradio – It is loaded to the max with insights and real talk about maintenance and relibility, CMMS of course, and a lot about maintenance culture!! We are all about global experts, bona-fide experts like Erik that are trying to make the maintenance world a better place.
Say it Louder & Why
Does your CMMS Suck?
CMMS Selection
Maintenance vs. Leadership KPI’s
The BEST CMMS – You might not be surprised!!
Less data is more if you add one thing – QUALITY!
Building good, useful, and effective PM strategies (preventive maintenance).
Thank you, Erik, for join to record this MONSTER episode.
SOR 1077 Loss of Expertise
Loss of Expertise
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Greg and Fred discuss what happens when a company doesn’t have the engineering knowledge, skills, and abilities to design things. Why? Companies don’t make commodity stuff any more. They outsource these items. The challenge of outsourcing often means outsourcing engineering expertise. Big problem. So what are the solutions?
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SOR 1076 Research Options
Research Options
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Kirk and Fred discuss the new options for doing technical research, including Google Scholar and AI tools like ChatGPT ᐅ Play Episode
CR051: The Opiniator Journey to Proactive Customer Engagement as a Business Driver in Facilities Settings
The Opiniator Journey to Proactive Customer Engagement as a Business Driver in Facilities Settings
In this episode of CMMSradio, Greg, Host of #CMMSradio, and Matt Selbie, Opiniator.com, delve into two main themes.
The importance of customer feedback in driving business success.
Proactive engagement via technology.
We learn how Opiniator’s platform streamlines the feedback collection process, facilitating real-time insights for businesses to adapt and improve customer experiences. The significance of proactive engagement with customers to enhance satisfaction and loyalty, highlighting the role of technology to this end.
Greg and Matt tackle the skilled trades gap, attributing it to various factors including generational shifts and the retirement of our skilled trades keepers of knowledge. They discuss the urgent need to incentivize younger individuals to pursue careers in skilled trades by revising pay scales and altering the perception of these professions as antiquated or unattractive. Matt shares insights into successful approaches adopted by organizations to address the shortage of skilled workers, advocating for the reintroduction of vocational classes in educational curricula.
Throughout the episode, personal anecdotes from Matt, such as his favorite music genre, and sport, add a touch of relatability. We’ll get some insight on work-life balance as well.
- Customer Feedback as Business Driver
- Proactive Customer Engagement
- Addressing the Skilled Trades Gap
- Incentivizing Young Talent
- Educational Reforms
- Personal Insights
Connect with Opiniator at www.opiniator.com and fine Matthew Selbie on LinkedIn to start your own conversation.
CR050: Improve your CMMS Journey with the UpKeep Ambassadors Program
Improve your CMMS Journey with the UpKeep Ambassadors Program
In this episode we learn all about the new UpKeep Ambassador Program with returning expert guest Bryan Bieschke, CMRP, head of Community & Partnerships at UpKeep, getting into all aspects of how the program came into existence and why it is so important for successful outcomes.
In fact, it is changing the game when it comes to impact for organization selecting and utilizing a CMMS, like UpKeep, to get the basic fundamentals absolutely right. One big takeaway is how the ambassadors see the overall world of maintenance, specifically maintenance and reliability (think CMRP) and their respective experiences and insights being along for the ride to create great customer experiences. Who wants to do guesswork on such a critical component of their overall maintenance operations? Nobody. How do we connect this endeavor to the overall business? UpKeep ambassadors know how to do that in a real and practical way.
This episode covers all of it and gets us all excited about the CMMS journey ahead knowing we’ve got the right resources, the right people, and the right knowhow to get you there.
SOR 1075 Vendors and Reliability
CR049: The Reliability Balancing Act of culture, asset management, & collaboration with guest Mina Soliman
The Reliability Balancing Act of culture, asset management, & collaboration with guest Mina Soliman
Mina Soliman joins Greg on CMMSradio for a wide-ranging discussion covering maintenance, reliability, and cultural perspectives. Mina expressed his anticipation for the Reliable Plant and Machinery Lubrication Conference in Chicago (June 3-6, 2024), emphasizing the collaborative environment it fosters.
We talked about he potential pitfalls of prioritizing asset management over reliability, stressing the interconnectedness of both aspects. He touched upon cultural differences in how organizations approach these concepts and the need for a balanced perspective.
The growing recognition of certifications in the maintenance and reliability field, noting how cultural attitudes towards certifications are evolving, is important to Mina. He highlighted the increasing value placed on certifications by companies and individuals, reflecting broader shifts in cultural perceptions within the industry.
The conversation stresses the importance of cultural understanding and collaboration in the maintenance and reliability field and throughout all of industry.
In the fun questions segment Mina shared his fondness for jazz music and his passion for fishing, particularly in the diverse waters of his region and the international fishing championship in the Red Sea!!
Keep an ear out for Mina’s perspectives on work-life balance, emphasizing the need for effective time and priority management to maintain this balance.
CR048: Purpose Beyond Product: Nurturing People & Brands to Achieve Operational Excellence with John Morris
Purpose Beyond Product: Nurturing People & Brands to Achieve Operational Excellence with John Morris
We had John Morris, of Club Colors, on CMMSradio to discuss his experience and insights around the importance of operational excellence and how purpose over product – and PEOPLE – are at the center of pretty much everything. Look out for the segment on error rate reduction (very CMMS and maintenance centric).
John was one of our inspirations for starting the podcast – He’s an expert-level podcaster with a passion that shines through.
Here are the main topics:
- People Over Process
- Operational Excellence
- Purpose-Driven Approach
- Branding’s Influence
- Work-Life Harmony
- Entrepreneurial Spirit
- Promoting Others
- Continuous Improvement
SOR 1074 Mastering AI and Career
Mastering AI and Your Career
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Greg and Fred discuss how AI is changing work, careers, and jobs. Last week, Fiverr CEO warned staff: ‘AI is coming for your jobs, including mine!’ So what does this really mean for reliability and quality professionals? And importantly, what can you do about it? ᐅ Play Episode
QDD 170: Why Your Cross-Functional Team Isn’t Communicating Effectively (And How to Fix It)
Why Your Cross-Functional Team Isn’t Communicating Effectively (And How to Fix It)
Have you ever watched a promising product idea slowly die in the fuzzy space between “great concept” and “actual development”? You’re not alone.
The journey from product idea to market-ready solution contains a critical yet often overlooked phase: concept development. This is where cross-functional teams must align their diverse perspectives to create a solid foundation for design. But as many product developers discover, this is precisely where communication frequently breaks down.
In this episode, we dive deep into why cross-functional teams struggle to communicate effectively during early concept development and how to fix it.
