By Jim Fitch
Machinery Lubrication Magazine

Thousands of companies around the world have an immediate need to hire lubrication management professionals. These companies are owners of numerous production assets that are critical to industrial processes and fleet operations. The reliability and operating costs of these machines depend heavily on the quality and effectiveness of lubrication as well as the skills of lubrication professionals.
It will be the lubrication management professional’s central task to ensure (as it relates to lubrication) that asset reliability is optimized at the lowest possible operating cost. The position is a strategic value-building job function essential to company profitability and competitive market strength.