With all that maintenance personnel must do daily in their industrial, manufacturing, and mining environments, why should management task their engineering resources to invest time, energy, and money into a ‘Precision Lubrication’ work plan? Because the industrial...
If you’re like many maintenance and reliability professionals, oil analysis is a simple routine: Take oil samples from your machines periodically. Take action if the results are flagged yellow or red. Continue to use the lubricant if the results are green. While this...
Oil analysis has a strong history of being incorporated into maintenance strategies to optimize lubricant life and protect oil-lubricated assets from wear and damage. Grease-lubricated components, which are much more widely present, are often neglected from...
Many of us use kidney loop filtration to clean our oil and extend the life of our equipment. Don't overlook small gearbox oil filtration! Neglecting to filter small reservoirs may keep you from reaching your machine reliability goals. Whether to use kidney loop...
If you understand the importance of keeping contaminants out of new industrial lubricants during storage, and you’ve worked to keep them clean, cool, and dry – great work! You are almost to the finish line and have one more task to get right before these oils begin...
We often get questions during our training courses about lubricant selection. I was recently asked how bearing bore size impact grease selection. Let’s start with defining the type of bearing. There are element bearings that come with a variety of element shapes,...
The Precision Lubrication team recently spoke with Ian McKinnon about precise alignment. Ian is a pioneer in the maintenance field, a passionate instructor, and a founding principal of Reliability Solutions, LP. Why don’t you use lasers to demonstrate alignments in...
With the current price of lubricants, and the supply chain issues limiting the supply, we often hear our fluid analysis customers express the need to extend their lubricant drain intervals. In many cases, this is a very achievable goal, but it does require changes to...
A successful lubrication program must have the proper organization in place. The correct lubrication functions help implement and sustain a robust precision lubrication program that provides value to the maintenance organization and the company. It is about more than...
Zinc (also known as ZDDP, ZDTP or zinc dialkyldithiophosphate) is the most common lube oil additive. Patented in 1944, this molecular family has been used as low-cost, multifunctional additives in engine oils, transmission fluids, hydraulic fluids, gear oils, greases,...
