Lubrication Tactics for Industries Made Easy: 8th Discipline on World Class Maintenance Management: 6

MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom Management is one of the most neglected maintenance strategies in the majority of industries which should not be the case. While others say that this is the missing link to any reliability and maintenance strategy. The truth of the matter is that almost every type of industry, whether manufacturing, processing, pharmaceutical, power plants, mining, construction, aviation, oil, and gas, or others has a storeroom in place to store items and spare parts, but not all industries know how to manage and control them The subject of lubrication is very broad indeed and is evolving continuously with new technologies and developments as time passed. As a result, some of the things that have been written and published are now bygone and obsolete. While most maintenance and lubrication people I know are not educated properly on lubrication. Most of their decision on which lubricant to use and when to change it is based most often on OEM recommendations. The purpose of writing this book on Lubrication Tactics for Industries Made Simple is to provide the maintenance people and lubricant users an easy-to-understand and straightforward approach to lubrication that they can adapt easily in their plant to reduce lubricant-related failures and reduce their maintenance costs. Lubricants can also be said to be the lifeblood of the equipment. The costs of lubricants in the industry only tell us just one side of the story. The much higher cost can be seen in the number of breakdowns and failures encountered daily caused by incorrect practices and myths on lubrication. The costs of failures attributed to lubrication are a minimum of 2 folds the costs of lubricants that are consumed in the equipment. This means that if your industry is a heavy user of lubrication, such as in the mining industry, multiply this by a minimum of two and that would be the estimated cost of failures attributed to lubrication. Some of the highlights that are covered in this book include the following - Why There is No Lubrication Engineering Course in College? - Is it possible to remove contaminants in the oil? - Extended Oil Drain - Myth or Fact - Does Oil Really Wear Out? - Selecting the Correct Lubricating Oil for the Equipment - Can We Mixed Different Grades and Brands of SAE Engine Oil? - Grease Incompatibility Issue - Advantages of Synthetic Oil over Petroleum Oil - Frequently Asked Questions on Synthetic Oil - Different Viscosity Grades for Industrial Lubricants - Does Lubricating Oil Really Wear Out? - Six Myths About Lubrication - Ten Strategies to Adapt to Lubrication and Contamination Control - Why is the Study of Tribology Important to Industries? - Why Lubrication Failures Repeat Itself - Benefits of Oil Analysis - Why Does Oil Analysis Program Fail in Some Industries? - Tips for Conducting Oil Analysis - Lubrication Tactics on Lubricating Oil - Lubrication Tactics on Oil Contamination Control(Code) - Lubrication Tactics on Greasing - Steps on Adopting a Lubrication Strategy Contamination is the main problem with lubrication, and it has always been there in the equipment, and it comes not only in solid form but in liquid and air (bubbles). The author believes that the more contamination present in lubricating oil, then the more chances of failures to happen, not only in hydraulics but in all lubricating systems.