By Bryan Debshaw, POLARIS Laboratories® Most maintenance and reliability programs today recognize the value of oil analysis for rotating equipment. From gearboxes and hydraulics to turbines and compressors, fluid analysis provides critical insight into asset...
By William Gillette (LogiLube, LLC) A hydraulic or turbine-oil system does not need to suffer a dramatic failure to begin losing performance. Sometimes the first warning is a valve that responds slightly too slowly, an unexplained increase in oil temperature or a...
By Jorge Alarcon From an economic perspective, the construction of new data centers responds to a structural need: digitalization, artificial intelligence, and massive data storage are steadily driving up demand for computing capacity. However, this growth is not...
By Bob Kendall When most people think about lubrication reliability, they picture what happens inside the machine. Bearings. Hydraulic systems. Gears. Pumps. Injectors. Oil analysis reports. But in reality, many lubrication failures begin long before the lubricant...
The Role of MIR Measurement Engines in Next-Generation Oil Condition Monitoring For many years, laboratory Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has been regarded as a cornerstone analytical technique for oil condition monitoring. Its ability to provide...
▶ Video Feature By Rafe Britton Back in April I published a video arguing that the lubricants industry was facing the most significant supply chain disruption of the modern era, and that readers had roughly 60 days to act. It was a big claim, and it drew a...
By David Placzek and Dr. Lukas Hafner, Deepfluid Typically, oil condition monitoring is performed through standardized laboratory tests at specified intervals. A representative sample is taken on-site from the system being monitored and analyzed in the laboratory...
