Welcome to the Trend Detection podcast, brought to you by Senseye Predictive Maintenance – which gives you visibility and insights into all your assets, from single machines to full plants to help you reduce downtime, increase knowledge sharing and accelerate digital transformation across your organization.In this episode, you will learn about:Defining the Role: You'll discover that a predictive maintenance champion is a key individual responsible for integrating new technologies like Senseye, ensuring its full utilization, keeping colleagues engaged, and effectively communicating its value across all levels of the organization.Why a Champion is Essential: Learn why having a dedicated champion is critical for the success of predictive maintenance initiatives, preventing them from being sidelined by other priorities and ensuring the technology's potential is fully realized.Overcoming Challenges: Understand the common hurdles champions face, such as resistance from experienced staff to new technologies and the administrative tasks involved. You'll hear how demonstrating tangible results is key to building trust and gaining acceptance.Measuring Impact: Explore how the success of a predictive maintenance program and the champion's contribution are measured, primarily through avoided downtime and documented cost savings, which ultimately makes maintenance teams' jobs easier.Becoming and Supporting a Champion: Get advice on how to become a champion by demonstrating technical aptitude and proactivity, and learn what leadership needs to do to empower and support these champions to ensure the long-term success of predictive maintenance efforts.You can find out more about how Senseye Predictive Maintenance can reduce unplanned downtime and contribute towards improved sustainability within your manufacturing plants, by visiting: www.siemens.com/senseye-predictive-maintenance