Practicing Oil Analysis September 2006

Commercial use of oil analysis began in the mid 1970s, and since then, there have been numerous advances in oil testing and manufacturing. These advances helped provide additional knowledge in the...

Don't let a poor oil sampling program shoot your oil-analysis program from the sky. This article explains ways to eliminate mistakes and improve your oil sampling results.

Oil analysis is a powerful condition monitoring tool and an important contributor to plant reliability. This technology can be applied in both predictive maintenance and failure root cause...

Demand for Jet-Care International’s helicopter engine condition monitoring program is rapidly growing in the United States as manufacturers and operators recognize its potential to diagnose a...

Inspecting new oil deliveries should be an important part of any lubrication program. Many incidents have been reported of customers receiving either the wrong oil, contaminated or degraded oil....

For more than 40 years, spectrometric oil analysis has been applied as a routine and cost-effective condition monitoring technique. It is used to determine the elemental concentration in parts per...

A constant driving force in any industry is to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Each year, laboratories are experiencing growth in the number of samples being processed, which in turn creates...

Used oil analysis laboratories have long relied on viscosity measurement as a key parameter in determining the condition of in-service engine oil. However, the methods used to determine...