Upcoming training Machinery Lubrication Level I — Pewaukee, WI Four days of intensive training on industrial lubrication best practices — lubricant selection, storage, filtration, and application. Built for those pursuing MLT I / MLA I certification. July 13 – 16,...
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Lubrication Certifications Review The STLE Certified Lubrication Specialist™ (CLS)
Upcoming training Machinery Lubrication Level I — Pewaukee, WI Four days of intensive training on industrial lubrication best practices — lubricant selection, storage, filtration, and application. Built for those pursuing MLT I / MLA I certification. July 13 – 16,...
The Oil Was There—But the Bearing Still Failed
Upcoming training Machinery Lubrication Level I — Pewaukee, WI Four days of intensive training on industrial lubrication best practices — lubricant selection, storage, filtration, and application. Built for those pursuing MLT I / MLA I certification. July 13 – 16,...
Give it to me Straight: Are we headed to a Lube Supply Crisis?
Upcoming training Machinery Lubrication Level I — Pewaukee, WI Four days of intensive training on industrial lubrication best practices — lubricant selection, storage, filtration, and application. Built for those pursuing MLT I / MLA I certification. July 13 – 16,...
Data Centers Are Redefining What a Lubricant Is
The Lubricant That Doesn’t Lubricate The fastest-growing fluid market for companies like ExxonMobil, Shell, FUCHS, Castrol, and Lubrizol has nothing to do with turbines, hydraulic presses, or gearboxes. It’s a stainless steel tank full of servers submerged in...
Why Condition Monitoring Demands More Than Vibration Alone Today
Condition monitoring is sometimes portrayed in industry messaging as being effectively limited to vibration analysis and ultrasound. Such claims, including those recently advanced by emerging vendors in the sensing technology space, reflect a broader pattern of...
Wrong Oil Top-Up? Here’s How to Spot the Warning Signs Early
Over the years, I have come across instances where issues have arisen, such as the filters blinding prematurely. With testing, this has ultimately been identified as leaving the tank open in a paper mill, and an investigation of the elements highlighted this, along...
The Overlooked Link Between Lubricant Temperature and Asset Reliability
Temperature is a dominant factor influencing lubricant degradation, machine reliability, and overall asset performance. The widely accepted heuristic that lubricant life is reduced by half for every 10 °C increase in temperature is rooted in the Arrhenius equation,...
How Global Conflicts Drive Lubricant Prices and What You Can Do About It
Crude oil prices have fluctuated significantly over the past 12 months, with a recent sharp increase in 2026 due to the crisis in the Middle East, while global lubricating oil prices remain relatively stable and do not directly track crude oil volatility. An analysis...
Finding the Why: How Oil Analysis Supports Root Cause Analysis
Moving Beyond Detection to Deliver Reliability For maintenance managers and reliability professionals, identifying a problem is only the beginning. The real objective is preventing it from happening again. In demanding industries with processing and manufacturing...














