Machinery Lubrication July 2010

Like most of the Noria technical team, I spend a considerable amount of time visiting many different types of plants. From pharmaceuticals to mining, food production to steel making, tire making to...

As a reliability engineer and MBA, I concluded early in my career that managing reliability in a manufacturing plant is approximately 80 percent engineering and 20 percent business management. Boy,...

Donatos pizza plant drains its equipment and sumps, purged its inventory, and replaced it all with synthetic oils and greases.

What do lifting chains, bladder-type accumulators and hydraulic hoses all have in common? Well, they typically have only one mode of failure – and that’s catastrophic. One minute they’re working as...

Specifying the right hydraulic oil for your system can have a big impact on component life. Following OEM specifications may not meet your applications demands.

Due to the increasing fineness of filter elements in high-precision machinery lubricating oil systems, monitoring of filter debris analysis (FDA) is gaining increased significance for the ea…

The oil storage room at the Elrama Generating Station in Elrama, Pa., was located in a separate building specifically made to house the oil at the plant (Figure 1). Oil drums were stocked on racks,...

It is standard practice in the field of personnel certification to outline qualification requirements as part of the certification process. In addition to such qualification requirements, there...

Vibration analysis, when properly done, allows you to evaluate the health of equipment. By finding inherent failures before they become catastrophic, maintenance personnel can minimize unplanned...