Machinery Lubrication February 2024

A single failure may have multiple reasons that caused it to get to a catastrophic case. For instance, the bearing wasn’t lubricated properly because the scheduled PM frequency was too long. It's easy to just chalk this up to a lubrication issue and not look at the other aspects of what all was occurring. Some failures require more significant analysis.

In this episode of Gear Talk, Wes sits down with Jeff Walkup, FluidLife's vice president of sales and marketing, to discuss leadership lessons in lubrication. As an industry veteran, Jeff is passionate about the impact of leadership on maintenance and reliability teams and how it drives innovation and excellence in facilities.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), when identified and aligned properly especially in the lubrication industry, can save your plant, job, and career. With all KPIs, by definition, we're measuring past performance to get ahead of potential problems that may occur in the future. We can do this by utilizing Leading and Lagging Indicators, two KPIs that could prevent disaster before it strikes.

This article reports diesel engine oil analysis data, demonstrating the use of filtergram x-ray fluorescence to quantify severity of wear and contamination. Two independent measurements were performed on each filtergram specimen: pore blockage particle count and x-ray fluorescence (XRF) large-particle elemental analysis. Filtergram specimens may be retained for retest, reference, and RCFA.

This is the singular hardest part about FMEA, RCM, and PMO ... determining the Failure Mode. What on earth is a failure mode? Watch this short from industry expert Dr. John Ross to learn more.

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