CMMS ROI calculators, do they work or not?   Be realistic about potential vs realized ROI on your CMMS journey.

I’ve seen a lot of ROI calculators in the CMMS industry, along with countless other industries, and maybe you’re seeing the same while searching, analyzing, and trying to decide on your CMMS solution.  Sometimes they make total sense but often they drag you into the weeds, with way too much detail, causing information overload.  Sometimes they’re too general.  Does that mean the answers are somewhere in between?  Maybe?  Setting realistic expectations and understanding that ROI calculations are a constant moving target, highly-relative by client, and no one-size fits all when it comes to prospective ROI. might help.  The reality is that ROI is important and depends on several factors while also being a little bit of eye dressing to tell a story that makes sense.  Tune in to learn more.

The sixth man concept, taken from basketball, is useful when considering how CMMS can help facilities maintenance and management teams from get the extra support they need in 2022 or beyond.  I’ve seen how systems, like CMMS and FMMS or others, can really bring a smaller team, that can’t add players or lacks bandwidth, get the job done and do it well.  Think of the role the bench plays, specifically in basketball, and the 6th man.  The sixth man (6th man) in basketball is a player, not in a starting role (they play lights out, by the way, but they’re not in a starting role) that comes off the bench more often than the other reserve players, and they bring high impact, production, and deliver in the gaps when starters need to rest, get injured, or you need extra help at a specific spot or at several spots on the court.  Your CMMS, computerized maintenance management system, is your sixth man in facilities and maintenance management.  How does your FMMS or CMMS do this?  have listen to this episode to find out.

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.

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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.

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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.