Machinery Lubrication March 2009

Even in today’s economically bleak time, Toyota is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading manufacturing organizations, and with good reason. Compared with their industry peers, Toyota and,...

Most reliability deployment systems are heavily focused on equipment-related problems. Indeed, this is because most of these initiatives are driven by the maintenance organization. However, in my...

MillerCoors knows more than a thing or two about brewing beer. That comes through a collective 627 years in the brewing industry. MillerCoors, a joint venture between SABMiller and Molson...

Mesh blockage often gets overlooked as a particle monitoring technique. Several articles have identified mesh blockage (or pore blockage) in its more successful role: dealing with the problematic...

Constant progress is part of life. We may rail against it at times, but we can’t stop it. And, it manifests itself in many different ways. In engineering, we’ve grown accustomed to machines and...

Common perceptions are that “oil is oil” and “grease is grease”. If that is the attitude that prevails at your company, there could be some expensive damage, or much worse, just lurking below...

There are plenty of potential benefits to using synthetic oil vs. mineral oil, but that doesn’t mean that synthetics are necessarily better. In order to get value from using a higher-priced …

Featured ML reader: Bob Pratt Employer: DTE Energy Job title: Staff engineering technician/lubrication at the St. Clair Power Plant in St. Clair, Mich. How many years have you been at this...

Featured ML reader: Troy Rooney Employer: Cargill Length of service with company: 12 years Title: Lubrication technician at the company’s grain processing facility in Sioux City, Iowa. Where...

The 2009 National Lubricating Grease Institute annual meeting will be held June 13-16 at the Lowes Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Ariz. Located at the foot of the Catalina Mountains, this site...

Especially in today’s world, where it seems as if the “bad” examples receive all the attention and recognition, it is more important than ever to identify and recognize good examples to be...

If you were to ask someone how he or she defines quality, that person may very well stumble to articulate an appropriate answer that captures the essence of the general meaning. Quality, or at...

Today, several technologies exist for the relubrication of machine components. A grease gun is one of the most common. The purpose of the grease gun is to apply lubricant through an orifice to a...