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Practicing Oil Analysis November 1999

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Jim Fitch, Noria Corporation

For many companies with oil analysis programs, the routine arrival of paper reports from the laboratory creates a kind of eye glaze among recipients. Sometimes hundreds, even thousands of samples...

Condition Monitoring and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) as part of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and asset optimization have evolved and coexisted as separate...

There is a wealth of information contained in every oil sample. Lubricant analysis laboratories can extract information on the physical properties of the lubricant, level and type of...

Drew Troyer

Use it to Evaluate AW / EP Performance The plant oil analyst is responsible for ensuring the continued effectiveness of lubricants in service and is often involved in the lubricant selection...

James E. Berry, Technical Associates of Charlotte

One Vibration Analysis Expert Shares His Views About the Importance of Oil Analysis Why would a person totally immersed in the vibration analysis field for over 20 years now recommend...

Introduction CTC Analytical Services (CTC) is the largest independent supplier of fluid analysis services in North America. They have a network of 11 commercial laboratories located...

Ray Garvey, Emerson Process Management

Confirm Proper Lubrication Using Sonic / Ultrasonic Monitoring Multiple frequency sonic/ultrasonic analysis can be effectively used to monitor the lubrication quality of greased bearings. These...

Paul Higgins, Dingo Maintenance Systems

Today, global competition and thinning margins in most industries mean that cost control is high on every manager’s objectives list. Most organizations have squeezed costs hard already,...

The Fluid Life Corporation is a commercial oil analysis laboratory situated in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. As with most laboratories, they have run across samples where the common Schiff’s...