Hello, we are in the products and Technology showcase still, I am still Nicole. I hope you
enjoyed that rock studios session. I think we've got some pretty interesting content
going on in there, and I'm really glad you get to see some of it.
So I'm here with Chris Lu, Chi from fix.
I love Chris. What do I even tell people about you? Okay. I know what I'm going to
tell them about you. Chris used to work at Rockwell Automation.
He moved to fix many of us were sad, and then Rockwell bought fix and now he's
back. I'm back to
three Matthew. I'm excited as well. Yeah, but now he came back as an expert. So tell us
about fix, which I know does CMS technology.
What is that mean? Yeah. So fix as a CMS system, it digitizes
maintenance, right? It ultimately helps people plan track and organize maintenance
using a single source of truth. Right? No more pen and paper to trigger work orders. No
more shared spreadsheets amongst the maintenance department. So it helps
maintenance folks get their job done more effectively.
The most important thing is said another way. It helps maintenance, folks become more
proactive rather than reactive in the maintenance world. There's a lot of running
things to failure fixing things, when they break, you know, that's fine for a light
bulb, right? But if it's a belt that shuts down a machine that shuts down production.
That's a problem. So, a cmms system when done, right? Ultimately
gives people the ability to see issues and Trigger work orders before they become
issues. Very cool. And okay. I'm not asking your questions. Just, you have to deal with
it. So, we talked to sharayu just a minute ago.
Okay. And Andy Gagnon a minute ago about predictive maintenance. Yep, what are some of
the inputs for fix? Like, drives data, can go into figs. Where is all this data coming
from? And does it all have to be like a certain system? Or
yes, this is cool, and I'll take a step back on that. Like, a lot of proactive maintenance
has traditionally been done with like scheduled meetings. Like, hey, do this one
supporter, do this once a month, whatever that may be, right? And that's a good
practice. But taking that a step further, you're talking about condition based.
It's right where you can have a, let's say a tank, the
temperatures get into hot in that tank. You can trigger work order to say, hey, this is
10 degrees off spec, right? You might want to check this out before this batch goes bad. So
you can trigger work orders again, based on things before they become an issue, right?
And you do all that, whether it's censored, data, alarm data, taking that, bring it back
to the controller and communicating that to the fixed platform. Very cool. Yeah, and I
will tell everybody here to, we were just at my next boat together in Las Vegas.
Like a month and a half ago. Yeah. Yeah Bobby. Yeah, and we were showing fix
Solutions. This Factory talk maintenance Hub maintenance type of stuff to customers and
they were super interested in it. I think this is just an area where there's a lot of
room for growth in companies and just shifting the way we think about me and it's
all together. Yeah, and I think part of it is fix
alternately help solve one of the biggest challenges in manufacturing right now. That's
Workforce issues, right? Where people can't fill the open roles that they have. Right? So
fix allows teams to do more with less. Because the reality is, let's say, you have
four people on the maintenance team, even trying to hire that fifth person that
six-person just can't find them because they're not out there right now. When you
have a more proactive approach to maintenance, all of a sudden, maybe you can
start picking up some of that slack that you would have traditionally needed someone else
to fill for. So, when people are strapped for talent right now,
fixed can allow people to do more with less within the maintenance department. Very cool.
Chris. I'm so glad you're back in the Rockwell
family. I'm glad we bought you
to come back in. I think. This is such a great addition to our whole
maintenance or I guess I should say the whole Factory talk, hubs solution that we were
talking about with sharayu, just a minute ago.
Thank you guys very much for coming with us on this, which is our. I think our last tour
stop for a little bit here, but stay tuned. We're going to give you a couple of
introductions in a couple of instructions on how to access some additional content inside
of the show experience coming up later today. So stay there. We'll see you in a few
minutes.