Just Published: Oil Analysis For Dummies
Insight Services is excited and proud to announce its latest publication for the oil analysis community - Oil Analysis For Dummies. This 90-page book is filled with everything you need to know to create and maintain a world-class oil analysis program.
Oil Analysis For Dummies was written to help you understand what oil analysis is and how it can help your company. Oil analysis can increase the reliability and availability of machinery while minimizing maintenance costs. Creating a working oil analysis program takes time, training, and patience. However, the results are dramatic and the documented savings and cost avoidance are significant.
Information in this book includes:
- Getting to know the basics - Understand what oil analysis is and how it can work for you
- Preventing machine break down - An oil analysis program can help detect problems before they arise
- What is lubrication related failure - Learn to recognize common lubricant problems that often lead to premature failure
- Understanding oil viscosity - Why it’s the most important physical property of oil
- Choosing the right lab - Find a lab with the predictive maintenance strategies that your plant employs
Open the book and find:
- Ways to put together a great oil analysis program
- Overviews of many oil analysis tests
- Different ways lubrication can fail and how to spot them
- What additives can do to guard against machine wear
- A helpful glossary of industry terms
