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It’s that time of year again – it’s hot and that means your air handlers, AC units, and condensers are working overtime.  Building systems are taxed to the max and that means potential failures – The AC stops working, or underperforms, and that put people, your business operations, students, and staff at risk. This episode covers how you can leverage your CMMS functionality to avert costly and dangerous Air Conditioning failures

In this episode we discuss CMMS Gone Bad with the goal of understanding some of the reasons why a CMMS can go bad to help you find a strategy to fix or move away from your bad CMMS. It’s more common than anyone wants to admit.  Your CMMS was great – solid functionality, useability and speed, with great service from the SaaS provider - then it all went down hill from there and you might even be stuck. You’re thinking, "maybe we can fix this from our side."  Why are you thining this way?  Because replacing your CMMS might be the answer but it means taking a risk with a new vendor.  Then again, there might be a path forward that allows you to avoid the trouble of making this change.  Let’s explore that. Tune in so we can share insights and ideas on how to get you ouf of this "CMMS Gone Bad" situation.

In this episode we’re discussing CMMS system pricing to help you make sense of the many options you have when buying a system on your CMMS journey. Why?  Because CMMS Pricing is Confusing!   There's price per user, per site, per location, per square foot, per asset, per module, or a mixture of everything – sometimes called variable pricing.  How do you figure out what is best for your operation?  The first place to start is with what fits your operational process - your teams' working style.  There are several pricing models to consider but don’t forget the real reason you’re getting a CMMS – to solve a problem or set of problems.  Let's talk about these pricing models and try to make sense of it for your CMMS journey.

In this episode we discuss Computerized Maintenance Management Software and how CMMS is used to manage facility and property operations such as work orders or asset maintenance. A CMMS system gets your company organized and on track with day-to-day mission critical maintenance activities.  There seems to be no limit to the industries, and company types, that can benefit from implementing a CMMS if only to bring in a basic process to an otherwise difficult-to-maintain approach like paper, emails, voice mails, and spreadsheets.  We'll cover a bit on work orders as well.  Thanks for listening to CMMSradio.

Schools, Colleges, and Universities have a lot to track when it comes to facilities and maintenance operations leaving the questions of "what should a school track in their CMMS platform?"  It is easy to jump on that with "everything" and it is kind of true.  The reality is we need a place to start that is not overwhelming but rather follows a building block approach.  In this episode we cover the basics but in a detailed way.  We want to keep it light but still get you off to a great start. It makes sense to track building, areas of each building, grounds, and other parts of your school or campus setting. Track your equipment assets - They're a critical part of your facilities. Preventive Maintenance - That's important.  Realize HUGE gains with a proper PM program in place. Don't forget your users and your vendors.  This might include your supply vendors. The process is different when starting with no system at all versus a lift and shift from an existing system. Get ready to dump all of those excel files, spreadsheets, emails, and post it notes.  It's time to roll out a CMMS platform and do it right. Hire a consultant if you need help with your CMMS project. Thanks for tuning in for another episode on CMMSradio - Be sure to follow us and tune in for future episodes to help you on your CMMS journey.

In this episode we discuss CMMS in School and Educational settings - K-12, colleges, universities, and the like - with a review of common drivers or reasons as to why CMMS is so important to these settings, what it is like without a CMMS in place, and the benefits to implementing such a solution.   This is a great episode if you need to keep up with day-to-day maintenance and grounds operations, or physical plant, in a school or campus setting but do not have a system in place or you have an outdated solution and need to make a change. Send us your CMMS story or tell about your CMMS project at cmmsradio.com and tune in for future episodes to help you on your CMMS journey.  Be sure to follow CMMSradio on your favorite listening platform.

In this episode, we have a special guest, James Kovacevic, to help us learn about maintenance and reliability specific to assets and preventive maintenance. He’s the host of Rooted in Reliability – The Plant Performance Podcast where he’s Helping organizations improve the “triple bottom line” through improved asset management practices. James is a maintenance management professional, a certified maintenance and reliability professional, and a certified asset management assessor.  He discusses his background and philosophes on building out preventive maintenance programs, along with how to improve user adoption and the challenges therein, for your CMMS or other software/technology solutions.  Enjoy this episode packed with several beneficial topics, tips, and perspectives to improve your asset and preventive maintenance best practices. Thank you to James Kovacevic for being a guest on CMMSradio and sharing your many insights, experiences, and approaches to this critical area of process, and process improvement, so important to all organization maintenance programs.

This episode covers the CMMS discovery process that is often a part of your CMMS solution search.  It might take place with a consultant or a vendors that provides CMMS software or both.  It usually happens early in your CMMS search and our goal is to give you a sense of what is involved in the discovery process so you know what to expect.  What questions will they ask?  What type of information do they need and why?  Take a listen and let us know if we left anything out.  Thank you for listening to CMMSradio - Enjoy the episode.

A simple work order process, or system, creates efficiency in many areas of your facilities, maintenance, and other operations. Notice that I said a simple work order process.  That’s important and I will tell you why right now. If you do not have a work order process in place that is where you often start, with a simple system, because that is  the tolerance we often see in the CMMS, Facilities Management or Maintenance, and related industries.  You can sometimes get a good launch with something advanced or complex, or maybe something in between.  We’re going to keep it simple for this episode and make it about simple work order management. The basic work order process, from paper to digital, should be straight forward, nothing crazy or complex, to web-enable your existing process in an effective yet non-disruptive way.  Have a listen and let us know if you have ideas, questions, or need clarification on any of the details in this episode.  Visit CMMSradio.com to submit feedback, a CMMS story, or suggest a topic.  Thank you for listening to CMMSradio.

There is a company I have been following, for a while now, and I like the things they are doing for the industry and their clients. I caught something on my LinkedIn feed, related to a recent episode of CMMSradio on a similar topic. They put out an article this week that I thought might be useful for anyone looking around for a CMMS or Work Order Management system.  I grabbed some parts of that for this episode. I want to thank FlowPath for putting out this article. It offers good guidance and some insights that will help us all.  Have a listen and let us know what you think at CMMSradio.com and thanks for listening.