Essential to any pro-active maintenance culture, an accurately conducted Lubricant Care Programme can greatly enhance machine reliability. This technology is sometimes combined with Vibration Analysis to allow a comprehensive diagnosis to be confirmed.

Many O.E.M. recommendations suggest that lubricants be replaced after a certain amount of run hours; however it is often the case that the lubricant is perfectly acceptable and is performing to its original specification. As part of a simple lubricant care programme this lubricant would be sampled on a quarterly basis and the condition trended until the optimum performance started reducing. This strategy would not only provide savings to the cost of the lubricant changes but also the disposal of the lubricants, especially with today’s stringent environmental constraints.

Applied Diagnostics Ltd offers a complete Lubricant Care Programme which details plant criticality, lubricant assessment and more importantly the testing method. A database of the critical assets is then compiled with a serious emphasis on the correct sampling points and techniques noted.

Samples can be acquired by our own engineers or similarly by your own employee’s and sent to ourselves for a comprehensive analysis and report.

A typical analysis would include references to lubricant performance, chemical condition, contamination, cleanliness (ISO), viscosity and ferrous / non-ferrous wear. The resultant report compares these parameters against their benchmark standard, relative to the reference lubricant.

Recommendations are then given noting the nature of any component or lubricant problems, with a correct cause of action such as filter changes etc.

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