About this episode

The episode discusses how AI-powered predictive maintenance can enhance operational reliability in manufacturing with insights from Colin Morris of MaintainX.

AI-powered predictive maintenance has been on the radar for years, but for most facilities, it still hasn’t fully landed. Chris sits down remotely with Colin Morris, Senior Director of Solution Consulting at MaintainX, the AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform built for the industrial frontline. Colin has spent eight years working in this space, long enough to have watched maintenance shift from an afterthought to a strategic asset across North American manufacturing. They cover the real barriers to AI adoption in maintenance: unstructured data sitting across disconnected systems, outdated assumptions about what predictive tools should deliver, and the foundational steps most facilities skip before they’re ready. Colin walks through what parts data to collect and why, how maintenance has evolved from cost center to cost saver, and where agentic AI is taking the industry next, including what scheduling looks like when an agent does the first pass and a human approves the plan. In this episode, find out: Whether today’s manufacturers have the data infrastructure AI actually needs, and why having data and having usable data are two very different things The gap…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Luecke

Guest: Colin Morris

Topics covered

• AI-powered predictive maintenance
• operational reliability
• data infrastructure
• manufacturing
• cost savings
• maintenance strategies

Keywords

• predictive maintenance
• AI
• manufacturing
• data infrastructure
• cost center
• cost saver
• maintenance strategies
• agentic AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MaintainX

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