Manufacturing Talks
There are millions of cool stories in manufacturing. Your host, Jim Vinoski, helps share them by talking to the people who are making them happen. Manufacturing is where the rubber meets the road. There's no hiding. You're either making good products people will buy for enough to keep you in business, or you're not. Meet the amazing folks who thrive in that survival-of-the-fittest world.
Manufacturing Talks
How are maintenance fundamentals the foundation of good business? He's here to tell us
It was fascinating speaking with Nick Haase, who co-founded MaintainX to bring modern tech solutions to manufacturing maintenance. You'd think that's a pretty niche application, and yet almost every central element of his platform he brought up also proved to be a fundamental good business practice.
Here are the highlights:
2:40 - the MaintainX story
7:00 - the importance of user friendliness
10:00 - disconnects on software development
12:30 - integrating with other systems
14:50 - underutilized systems: OEM data, how to gather it, and how to make it actionable
20:00 - AI and machine learning
21:40 - the quality of data is critical: how to build a data foundation (1. capture structure, and store; 2. work towards predictive)
25:30 - the importance of knowledge capture and transfer for developing the workforce of the future
27:50 - augmented reality
Nick brought us a whole bunch to think about, but trust me - it will be worth every minute for you to tune in to the whole thing!
The MaintainX website: https://www.getmaintainx.com/