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Seal the Deal: Practical Steps to Combat Contamination in Pumps
What Causes Wear? Contamination has frequently been identified as one of the major causes of premature wear on...
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Oil Consolidation Reimagined: The 5S Method for Smarter Lubrication Practices
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Lubrication’s Hall of Fame: Meet the Top 10 Pioneers
In 1966, at the height of the "swinging sixties" movement, the world of lubrication, friction, and wear finally...
When Bearings Fail: A Fire Pump’s Hard Lesson in Reliability
In a Middle Eastern refinery, a newly commissioned fire water pump, crucial for emergency services, experienced...
How to Select Oil Analysis Tools That Align with High-Value KPIs
Oil analysis is critical to any reliability program, serving as an effective predictive tool for potential equipment...
Lubrication Scheduling Software
With capabilities not found in spreadsheets or CMMS systems, LUBE-IT manages every task at every lube point providing lube techs with all the information they need to keep equipment running and reliable.
Microdieseling in Turbine Oils: Identifying Causes and Solutions
Microdieseling is a term often associated with changes in lubricant color and the formation of harmful byproducts within lubricated systems. It occurs when microbubbles of air (smaller than 5 microns) in the lubricant transition from a low-pressure environment to a...
Contamination Control: Improve Cleanliness, Prevent Failures with Particle Count
Contamination within lubricants circulating through equipment can range from air, water, or, the most damaging, particles. The most common cause of equipment failure is particle contamination in the lubricant, and, specifically, 80% of hydraulic system failures can be...
Lubricating Grease: Types, Selection, and Compatibility
In most industrial facilities, over 50% of all lubrication points are lubricated with grease instead of oil. Don't believe me? Just count the number of electric motors in your plant. Unlike most oil-lubricated assets, where OEM recommendations provide at least a...
How to Extend Bearing Life with the Right Lubricant Choice
All machines with moving parts have bearings of some type. The bearings may be as simple as flat surfaces working against other flat surfaces, such as the slideway in a machine tool, or they may have sophisticated geometries like a ball screw. Plain and element...
Dissolving Downtime: How Solubility Enhancers Prevent Refinery Shutdowns
Whether we realize this or not, oil refineries are critical in our everyday lives. They convert crude products into diesel, gasoline, LPG, and plastics. The equipment in this plant must withstand very high temperatures, sometimes over 500°C (in the distillation unit)....