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Jim Fitch
Jim Fitch has a wealth of “in the trenches” experience in machinery lubrication, oil analysis, tribology and machinery failure investigations. Over the past two decades, he has presented hundreds of lectures on these subjects. Jim has published more than 200 technical articles, papers and publications. He serves as a U.S. delegate to the ISO tribology and oil analysis working group. Since 2002, he has been director and board member of the International Council for Machinery Lubrication. He is the CEO and a co-founder of Noria Corporation. Contact Jim at jfitch@noria.com.
Articles by Jim Fitch-
Three Important Words for Success in Lubrication and Oil Analysis
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Tricks to Classifying Wear Metals and Other Used Oil Suspensions
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In Search of a Definition - What is Oil Analysis?
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Why Should Managers Care About Oil?
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The Enduring Flash Point Test
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Oil Analysis Standards - What Are We Waiting For?
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Defining and Executing Excellence in Lubrication
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Surviving the Data Jungle
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Oil Analysis and the Lean Organization
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Deploying the Invisible Filter
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Is Your Oil Analysis Program a Quart Low?
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Using Oil Analysis to Control Varnish and Sludge
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Oil is Not a Fine Wine
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The Influence of Bottle Cleanliness and Sample Agitation
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Maximizing Fault Detection in Rotating Equipment Using Wear Debris Analysis
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Adopt a New Philosophy
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Oil Analysis for the New Millenium
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Choose Your Weapon
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Your Oil Is Talking...But Are You Listening?
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What Particles Mean and Why They Need to Be Monitored and Controlled
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First an Idea, Now a Reality
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Using Oil Analysis to Monitor the Depletion of Defoamant Additives
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Clean Oil Sampling - How to Sample Oil Without Opening the Bottle
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Ten Compelling Reasons to Attend Practicing Oil Analysis 2000
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The Augustus H. Gill Award for Oil Analysis Excellence
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Announcing the International Council for Machinery Lubrication
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Top Ten Ways Not to be World Class at Machinery Lubrication
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The Six Most Expensive Oil Analysis Tests
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Vacuum Distillation for the Removal of Water and Other Volatile Contaminants
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At Last ... A Lubrication Magazine for Maintenance Professionals
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Oil Analysis Economics - Saving and Making Money
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Trouble-Shooting Viscosity Excursions
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World-Class is What Next Year's Conference is About - What It Is ... and How To Get It
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Oil and Glycol Don't Mix
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Why Lubricant Supply Contracts No Longer Go to the Lowest Bidder
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You Can't Fix a Problem You Don't Know Exists
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The Perfect Storm . . . Are You Secretly Waiting?
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How Telephone Poles Are Like Filters
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From Whence Dirt Comes
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Demystifying Sludge and Varnish
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The Hidden Cost of an Untrained Workforce
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Lubrication UFOs
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Today's Oil Detectives Have a New Bag of Tricks
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Proactive Maintenance's Unruly Cousin
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Spot Check Your Car's Oil
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New Lubrication Commandments - Conserve Energy, Protect the Environment
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Aren't Machines Supposed to Wear Out?
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Clean Oil Reduces Engine Fuel Consumption
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Wanted: Lubrication Management Professionals
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Managing Reliability in Real Time - The Risk Management Grid (RMG)
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Ask Your OEM to Accessorize New Equipment for Lubrication Excellence
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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Attend Lubrication Excellence 2003
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Should New Lubricant Deliveries be Tested?
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Which Questions Does Your Oil Analysis Program Answer?
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The Difference Between Good Lubrication and Good Lubricants
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Silent Assumptions of Bearing Reliability
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Headspace Management - Are You in On This Best-Kept Secret?
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What is the No. 1 Cause and the No. 1 Consequence of Wear?
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Motor Oil Selection Advice
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Dipstick Oil Analysis
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How Grease Kills
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Reliability's Dirty Little Secret
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Determining Proper Oil and Filter Change Intervals: Can Onboard Automotive Sensors Help?
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Lubrication Excellence 2004 - It's All About Learning
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Lubrication Genesis
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Lubrication as a Profession
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Sight Glass Oil Analysis
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When to Perform a Flush
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Oil Analysis Reports - What's Missing in the Comments?
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Navigating the Maze of Flushing Tactics
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Copper and Your Diesel Engine Oils
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The Basics of Used Oil Sampling
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Flushing Strategy Rationalization
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Bulk Lubricant Storage and Handling
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The Hazards of Water Handles
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Flushing and the Voice Within Your Oil
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The Perils of Aerated Oil - Let Your Machine Burp
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Lubricant Quality and the Chain of Custody
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The Agony of Diesel Engine Oil Particle Counts
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Origin of Spherical Particles in Lubricants
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Receive a Contamination Control Transfusion - in Just Three Days
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What do Canaries and Ferrous Density Meters Have in Common?
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Filter Economy - Insider Tips on Managing the Costs of Lubrication Filtration
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Standby Equipment – Dealing with Oil Without Legs
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How to Give Your Machine a Physical
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A Much Closer Look at Particle Contamination
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Evolution of Maintenance Man
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Beware of What You Measure
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12-Step Program - For Recovering Addicts of Lubrication Neglect
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Tweaking the Eyes and Ears of Oil Analysis
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Interview with Luminary Professor H. Peter Jost - The Man who Gave Birth to the Word “Tribology”
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The Importance of Provenance
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In Search of a Root Cause
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What Do You Do with a High Particle Count?
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Sludge and Varnish in Turbine Systems
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A Conversation with Dad - Pioneer, Educator and Mentor in Fluid Contamination Control
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What is Your Oil's Impurity-holding Capacity (IHC)?
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A Call for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
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Bulk Lubricant Storage
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Recognizing the Symptoms of Lubricant Incompatibility
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The Enduring Grease vs. Oil Debate
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Tribology is a Behavioral Science
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The Hot Stove Effect
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The Daily One-minute Inspection
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Oil is Like an Egg
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Filter Flow Rate - the Silent Opportunity
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The Meaning of a Low Viscosity Reading
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Four Lethal Diesel Engine Oil Contaminants
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Planned Cleanliness
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The Consequences of Periodically Forgetting
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The Truths About Data Trending
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Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About Air Contamination
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Diagnosing a Cloudy Oil
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Six Questions Every Lube Tech Should Be Able to Answer Correctly
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Ten Amazing Years
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Ten Hot Lubrication Trends
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Decade in Review: Education and User Empowerment
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Performing a Failure Scene Investigation
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Muck Samples
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Why Onsite Particle Counting Makes Sense
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Intervention is Key to Machine Life Extension
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The Richness of Machine Failure
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How Water Causes Bearing Failure
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The Five Cardinal Signs of a Healthy Machine
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The Benefits of Utilizing Wear Debris Analysis in Industrial Machinery
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Oil Clotting and the Adrenaline Effect
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Performing Lubrication in a Recessionary Environment
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Five Essential Lube Oil Properties Not Routinely Reported By Your Oil Lab
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Tactics For Identifying Wear Metal and Solid-particle Suspensions
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These Additives Don’t Exist
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When a Filter is Not a Filter
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Strategies to Achieve and Sustain Dry Oil
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Oil Flushing Tips to Address the Fish Bowl Effect
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Virgin Particles and Weak Signals: Finding Meaning in Wear Debris
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The Rationale For Using Magnetic Particle Collectors
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Scoring the Condition-Based Oil Change Decision
2010-01-27 -
Looking Through the Eyes of Onsite Contaminant Monitors
2010-02-19 -
Oil Sampling Mistakes to Avoid
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