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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-
Defining and Executing Excellence in Lubrication
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The Six Most Expensive Oil Analysis Tests
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Trouble-Shooting Viscosity Excursions
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Motor Oil Selection Advice
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The Basics of Used Oil Sampling
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Filter Flow Rate - the Silent Opportunity
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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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Looking Through the Eyes of Onsite Contaminant Monitors
2010-02-19 -
Today's Oil Detectives Have a New Bag of Tricks
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Surviving the Oil Analysis Data Jungle
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Particle Counting - Deploying the Invisible Filter
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Adopt a New Philosophy - Change
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Oil Analysis - Choose Your Weapon
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Oil Analysis Effectively Uncovers Hidden Problems
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Dipstick Oil Analysis
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Ban the Can: Sealable, Reusable Oil Containers are Smarter Option
2010-04-08 -
Oil Analysis Standards - What Are We Waiting For?
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In Search of a Definition - What is Oil Analysis?
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Oil is Not a Fine Wine
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The Enduring Flash Point Test
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Why Should Managers Care About Oil?
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Oil Analysis for the New Millenium
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The Augustus H. Gill Award for Oil Analysis Excellence
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Tricks to Classifying Wear Metals and Other Used Oil Suspensions
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Three Important Words for Success in Lubrication and Oil Analysis
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Oil Sampling Mistakes to Avoid
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Oil Analysis and the Lean Organization
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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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Maximizing Fault Detection in Rotating Equipment Using Wear Debris Analysis
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Your Oil Is Talking...But Are You Listening?
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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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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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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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Scoring the Condition-Based Oil Change Decision
2010-01-27 -
Oil Analysis Economics - Saving and Making Money
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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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Why Lubricant Supply Contracts No Longer Go to the Lowest Bidder
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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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Proactive Maintenance's Unruly Cousin
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Glycol In Lubricating Oil - Detection, Analysis and Removal
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Clean Oil Reduces Engine Fuel Consumption
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When to Perform a Flush
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Navigating the Maze of Flushing Tactics
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Flushing Strategy Rationalization
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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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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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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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The Influence of Oil Sample Bottle Cleanliness and Agitation
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Oil Analysis Reports - What's Missing in the Comments?
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Copper and Your Diesel Engine Oils
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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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What's Hot? Current Trends in Lubrication and Oil Analysis
2010-06-08 -
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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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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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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What is the No. 1 Cause and the No. 1 Consequence of Wear?
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What Particles Mean and Why They Need to Be Monitored and Controlled
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Strategies to Extend Drain Intervals and Reduce Lubricant Consumption
2010-08-06
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