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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What’s that Smell? Using Odor as an Oil Analysis Tool
What’s that Smell? Using Odor as an Oil Analysis Tool Field tests are some of the most overlooked, yet valuable tools that lubrication professionals can have in their arsenal. Most field tests are quick, inexpensive, simple to conduct and yield great information. One of my favorite field tests is odor. Many characteristics and properties of…
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Is Onsite Oil Analysis Justified?
Is Onsite Oil Analysis Justified? "Do you have any rough estimations of oil analysis costs if performed onsite? I am trying to compare the costs of onsite versus sending to an outside lab." The question of the cost to analyze samples onsite versus offsite is a good one. Too many people are motivated to test…
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Using Criticality to Drive Oil Analysis Strategy
Using Criticality to Drive Oil Analysis Strategy Oil analysis provides a huge payback when deployed through a proper strategy. While an extremely valuable tool in today’s reliability programs, it is sometimes applied in an ad-hoc manner. This is a dangerous approach, as the program can quickly become quite costly due to overtesting or even show…
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