Understanding Oil Analysis: How It Can Improve Reliability of Wind Turbine Gearboxes [caption id="attachment_885" align="alignright" width="224"] Click on the image to read the article[/caption] Reliability has been defined as the ability to rely on equipment to produce what it is scheduled to produce, when it is scheduled to produce it, for as long as…
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Water In Oil, What’s the Big Deal?
Water In Oil, What's the Big Deal? Water in lubricating oil has been a point of keen debate as long as oil analysis has been used to monitor equipment and lubricant condition. How much is too much? Where does it come from? Does it really hurt equipment? What form of water is of concern? How…
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Do You Know The Most Common Lubricant-Related Failures?
Do You Know The Most Common Lubricant-Related Failures? Lubricant-related equipment failures come in all shapes and sizes. Here we will examine the common lubricant problems that often lead to premature failure. Insufficient LubricationProper lubrication is defined as the proper amount of the proper lubricant at the proper place. If oil levels are low, or the…
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Establishing and Maintaining Your Credibility
Establishing and Maintaining Your Credibility Probably one of the most essential elements to any successful oil analysis program is credibility. After you establish credibility in a program, you must maintain the credibility. Any knowledgeable predictive maintenance person will agree that how internal customers view the program can determine if the program is a hero or…
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Justifying Your Oil Analysis Program
Justifying Your Oil Analysis Program As you put together any type of predictive maintenance technology like an oil analysis program, you need to justify the program. One common way of justifying oil analysis is keeping records of all predictive oil changes, filtration requests, dehydration requests, and so on. For example, the goal may be to…
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Lubrication and Oil Analysis Fundamentals Training Seminars
Lubrication and Oil Analysis Fundamentals Training Seminars A one-day seminar designed for those seeking to create a world-class oil analysis program Cleveland, Ohio October 2-3, 2012 (day two is an optional lab tour) Houston, Texas November 15, 2012 With time and money scarce in today’s competitive business world, it is becoming more difficult to get…
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