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...
Lubricant Analysis
Grease Analysis: Achieving Sustainability in Asset Management
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...
Extending Drain Intervals Requires Precision Lubrication
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...
Case Study: Extending Oil Drains with Micropatch Testing and Analysis
Case study data, information and images provided by POLARIS Laboratories® Traditionally, for gas engines utilizing class 2 type gas, usually landfill, biogas, or mine gas, the gatekeeper for oil change intervals has been the silicon content. The industry condemning...
How to Identify Causes of Component Failure with Specialty Testing
Case study data, information and images provided by POLARIS Laboratories® Routine fluid analysis can help to monitor equipment conditions and extend component life. But, by going the extra step and performing Filter Debris Analysis, and other tests to analyze...
Portable Oil Analysis Lab Is Military Approved
AMETEK Spectro Scientific offers a compact, rugged and portable oil analysis laboratory that has produced proven operational benefits for the US Military. The FieldLab series provides particulate analysis enabling users to make fast maintenance decisions in the field....