🚀 Inside ICC: Breaking Down Silos, CMMS+, and the Future of Connected Operations MFG HUB 237

What happens when one of the fastest growing CMMS platforms attends ICC for the very first time?
You get strong opinions, honest insights about plant floor silos, and a rare look at why CMMS Plus is becoming essential to digital transformation.

Nick Haase joined us to unpack the real challenges facing operations, reliability, IT, and controls teams, and why so many digital initiatives stall before reaching the front line.

🔥 In this episode:

• ICC through the eyes of a first time attendee
Why Inductive Automations events team delivers a world class experience despite being only three people.

• The core problem of modern manufacturing
Operations teams are fragmented across OT, IT, maintenance, reliability, and production. Brilliant people, isolated efforts.
Nick explains how this slows projects, blocks momentum, and hides the true value that controls engineers are building.

• Why MaintainX came to ICC
Most attendees do not expect a CMMS company at a SCADA focused event.
Nick explains the reason for being here:
• Connecting frontline execution with plant floor data
• Closing the gap between analytics and maintenance action
• Giving reliability teams the essential context they have been missing

• CMMS+ and the operational flywheel
MaintainX can receive Ignition and MQTT data, combine it with human input and technician context, and return enriched information to the larger ecosystem.
This enables:
• Condition based maintenance
• Earlier failure detection
• Stronger budget justification
• Data driven reliability improvements
All of this helps manufacturers avoid the slowdown and confusion that often stop digital transformation efforts.

• AI in manufacturing
AI has massive potential but also major risk.
Incorrect or hallucinated AI instructions are not just inefficient. They are dangerous.
MaintainX is developing AI carefully with a human in the loop approach, focusing on workflow quality and safety.

• The future of CMMS and the coming decade :
There are hundreds of CMMS tools in the market, but only a small number are modern systems.
Modernization is accelerating but adoption remains slow.
Education, training, and clarity will determine which platforms become long-term leaders.


💬 “The information already exists. The problem is that it does not reach the people who need to act on it. CMMS Plus is the bridge that finally unlocks the value controls engineers have been creating for years.”
Nick Haase

Guest: Nick Haase, CEO & Co Founder, MaintainX
*Recorded live at the Ignition Community Conference

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