There’s no doubt that lubrication is a critical step to having long-lasting and reliable assets. Lubrication, however, is not as simple as applying lubricants and expecting beneficial results. Instead, lubrication or lube management is a technical and complicated process to ensure that lubrication achieves its expected results. One of the essential processes in lube management is lubricant health monitoring.
Bearings are the pillars that support the moving or rotating components of industrial machines. One instance of bearing failure can mean machine shutdown and hours of production loss. Thus, one of the critical areas of maintaining machines and equipment is bearing maintenance. Bearing maintenance involves monitoring and preventing unplanned bearing failure. An effective bearing maintenance plan begins and ends with proper lubrication. In this post, you will learn everything you need to know about proper bearing lubrication: its purpose, essential steps, and critical considerations.
We have put together these common myths in this post and try to shed light on each. Understanding these common lubrication myths may help you avoid them to reach your lubrication goals and achieve optimal performance for all your assets.
Root cause analysis, or RCA, is an intimidating and often underutilized method of analysis. Recently, however, the use of RCA in asset maintenance is gaining popularity. Most reliability professionals turn to RCA to decode lubrication failures and from there devise the ideal maintenance steps to reduce future failures.
In our recent webinar with reliability expert Tim Dunton, we discussed how lubrication depends on lubricant characteristics such as additive content. Additives constitute a small portion of the lubricant formula but they play a major role in lubrication success.
As we shared in the recent webinar with reliability expert Tim Dunton, lubricant selection is the first step in maintaining a successful lubrication program. All efforts to store, apply or reapply lubricants properly are only useful if the lubricant is right for the machine or machine parts. Tim discussed the main lubricant properties you need to consider when choosing lubricants. In this post, we also look into the other factors that affect the success of your selection of lubricants.
The prevention and control of oil contamination result in significant savings on the costs of lubrication, machine repairs, and downtime. And awareness of the sources of oil contamination is the first step to preventing and controlling it. In our recent webinar with reliability expert Tim Dunton, we discussed the importance of contamination control in maintaining a successful lubrication program. The webinar is a mine of information on the fundamentals of oil contamination, and the sources and ways to prevent it.
Bearings are critical to the reliability of machines. A machine’s ability to perform depends on the health of its bearings. And maintaining bearing health depends on proper lubrication. In our previous webinar with Reliability Solutions’ Tim Dunton, we talked about the steps in achieving and maintaining a successful lubrication program. In doing so, we also talked a lot about lubricating bearings.
You’ve taken the oil sample, sent it to the lab and the results have just arrived in your inbox. Now what? If you scan the report looking for “red lights” and “green lights”, just know you’re not alone. That’s how most people are reading an oil analysis report. But there’s so much more value if you take another look. In this webinar, we will help your businesses take the next step and look beyond the traffic light system so that you can better understand your used oil analysis reports. The best thing – it doesn’t cost a dime! All the cost of a used oil analysis program is spent on the bottles themselves, so any further insight you can obtain
Choosing the right lubricant can make all the difference in the reliability and prevention of wear and tear in your machines. Of the many lubricant choices in the market, there are two major types to choose from: grease and oil.
