Machinery Lubrication February 2015

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Adrian Messer, UE Systems Inc.

By using ultrasound technology (along with normal practices such as removing old grease and replacing it with new), technicians can combine standard time-based maintenance with condition-based predictive maintenance, gaining in the process both a clearer picture of what’s really going on in their machines and improved reliability.

Bruce Wesner, Life Cycle Engineering

Senior leaders across a broad array of industries continue to highlight retirements, turnover and succession planning as key issues confronting their organizations. Much has been written and...

Bennett Fitch, Noria Corporation

Setting cautionary and critical limits (or targets) for oil analysis results is essential and irreplaceable as groundwork in an oil analysis program. It’s what helps answer one of the most commonly...

Loren Green

Without a staff of properly trained lubrication technicians and the right equipment to support their efforts, it can feel like fighting a losing battle. Often, this leads to repair efforts focus only on getting machines back up and running and not actually fixing them. Contracted lubrication technicians can help you get out of this cycle and discover the benefits of better lubrication.

Jim Fitch, Noria Corporation

Do you know about silt lock? This common condition causes motion impediment failure in certain machines. While this type of failure usually doesn’t involve wear or permanent internal damage to the...

Suzy Hitchcock, ICML

In 2001, when the International Council for Machinery Lubrication (ICML) offered its first certification exam, few could have envisioned the organization becoming the world leader in the...

Jeremy Wright, Noria Corporation

When winter weather settles in, with cold fronts creeping in from the north, do you ever think about the effects these temperature changes can have on your equipment’s reliability? All...

Alejandro Meza, Noria Corporation

The ultimate goal of lubrication excellence is to increase machine reliability and reduce operating costs. To achieve this objective, changes must be made at different levels of the plant,...

Wes Cash, Noria Corporation

It has been proven that the No. 1 cause of machine failure is the degradation of component surfaces. These surfaces can degrade in a variety of ways, but the most destructive is via particle...

Rüdiger Krethe, OilDoc

Lubricating oils are not completely free of air. Whether during operation or storage in barrels, oils are constantly in an exchange process with their air-containing environment. Even if the oil is...

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