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Automotive Lubrication
Condition Monitoring
- Advancements in Fluid Analysis Technologies and Strategies for Hydraulic SystemCondition-Based Maintenance
- Advantages of a Unified Condition Monitoring Approach
- Introducing Condition Alarm Mapping (CAM)
- How to Measure the Effectiveness of Condition Monitoring
- How to Select Machines for Oil Analysis
- Lubricant-Based Techniques for the Condition Monitoring of Non-Circulating Gear and Bearing Systems
- Detection Zone Coding for More Efficient Condition Monitoring
- Interpreting Contaminant Analysis Trends into a Proactive and Predictive Maintenance Strategy
- Lubricant-Based Techniques for Condition Monitoring of Non-Circulating Gear and Bearing Systems
- Systems and Methods for Real-Time Condition Monitoring of Mechanical Machinery
- Proactive Maintenance the Cost-Reduction Strategy
- Proactive Maintenance, the Newest Buzz Word
Contamination Control
- Contamination Control Strategies for Planned Oil Cleanliness
- Moisture – The Second Most Destructive Lubricant Contaminant
- Proactive Maintenance Can Yield More Than a IO-Fold Savings Over Conventional Predictive/Preventive Maintenance Programs
- Control and Management of Particle Contamination in Hydraulic Fluids
- Glycol In Lubricating Oil – Detection, Analysis and Removal
- Justifying the Cost of Excluding a Gram of Dirt [the economics of controlling contaminant ingression)
- Proactive Maintenance – The New Technology for Cost-Efficient Contamination Controlof Mechanical Machinery
- Quantifying The Contaminant Tolerance of Hydraulic Systems Using the Contaminant Life Index
- Strategic Implementation and Cost/Benefit of Contamination Control
- Deploying the Invisible Filter
- Establishing and Maintaining Levels of Cleanliness [in Lubricants]
- Headspace Management – Are You in On This Best-Kept Contamination Control Secret?
- Dust Cakes: What Causes Them and Why You Should Care
- How Filters Work to Control Contamination in Oil
- Reliability’s Dirty Little Secret
- The Power of 10X Cleaner…Dryer…Cooler…Better Aligned…More Training
- No Contamination, No Wear, No Kidding
Energy Conservation & Environment
Engine Lubrication
Filtration
- Filter Flow Rate: The Silent Opportunity
- Insider Tips on Managing the Costs of Lubricant Filtration
- Taking the Guesswork Out of Filter Selection
- The Anatomy of a Filter Inspection Report
- Vacuum Dehydrators Explained and Illustrated
- Increasing Demands Bring Advancements in Oil Filtration
- The Rationale for Using Magnetic Particle Collectors
- When a Filter is Not a Filter
Financial Justification
Fluid Power & Hydraulics
- Hydraulic Fluid Analysis: Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls
- Filtering water from hydraulic oil
- Fluid Conditioning of Aviation Hydraulic Fluids
- Safety Considerations in Fluid Power Products. Part 1: Design Aspects
- Safety Considerations in Fluid Power Products. Part 2: Design Aspects
- The Influence Of Marketing on the Design Of Fluid-Power Products
Gears & Bearings Lubrication
Grease Lubrication
History
- Interview with Luminary Professor H. Peter Jost – The Man who Gave Birth to the Word “Tribology”
- The History of Lubrication
- The History of the Noria
- The Greatest Racecar Driver of All Time. Mario Andretti Talks to Jim Fitch
- A Conversation with Dad – Pioneer, Educator and Mentor in Fluid Contamination Control
IIoT & Digital Transformation
Inspection
- Sight Glass Oil Analysis
- The Daily One-minute Inspection
- The Five Cardinal Signs of a Healthy Machine
- The Most Important Lubrication Inspection: Abnormal Changes in Oil Level
- Use Lubricant Zone Inspections for Early Problem Detection
- Why Inspection 2.0 Is Your Best Strategy for Early Fault Detection
- Diagnosing a Cloudy Oil
- Getting Machines to the Proper State of Inspection Readiness
- Guidelines for Developing a World-class Inspection Plan
- How to Give Your Machine a Physical
- How to Spot Check Your Car’s Oil
- How to Visually Inspect the Health and State of Oil
- Dipstick Oil Analysis
- Inspection 2.0: The Cornerstone of World-Class TPM
- Skillful Out-leakage Detection
- The 5 States of Machine Inspection 2.0
- Who Should Inspect Your Lubricated Machines?
Lubricant Analysis
- Blotter Spot Testing for Metallic and Other Solid Particles
- Elements of an Oil Analysis Program
- Fundamentals Of Fluid Analysis for Industrial Machinery
- Proactive and Predictive Strategies for Setting Oil Analysis Alarms and Limits
- Review of Degradation Mechanisms Leading to Sludge and Varnish in Modem Turbine Oil Formulations
- Should New Lubricant Deliveries be Tested?
- The Usefulness of Particle Counting in Oil Analysis
- Analysis of In-Service Automotive Engine Oils
- Elements of a Successful Oil Analysis Program – Part I & II
- How to Develop a “Win-Win” Relationship With Your Oil Analysis Lab
- How to Make Your Oil Analysis Program Produce More Alerts
- How to Test Flash Point
- Recognizing the Symptoms of Lubricant Incompatibility
- The Accuracy and Reliability of Optical Particle Counters with Industrial Oils and Hydraulic Fluids
- The Meaning of Low Viscosity
- The Power of the Patch (Comparing particle analysis methods using membranes)
- The Ten Most Common Reasons Why Oil Analysis Programs Fail & the Strategies That Effectively Overcome Them (booklet)
- The Wrath of Unscheduled Downtime: Why Oil Analysis is a Wise and Effective Defense
- Trouble-Shooting Viscosity Excursions
- 16 Knowledge Areas to Improve Oil Analysis Interpretation
- A Well-Constructed Oil Analysis Report
- Hydrocarbon Analysis
- In Search of a Definition – What is Oil Analysis?
- Listen to Your Lubricant
- Oil Analysis Reports – What’s Missing in the Comments?
- Standby Equipment Oil Monitoring and Maintenance
- The Surface Tension Test – Is It Worth Resurrecting?
- Using ‘Unscheduled’ Oil Analysis for Early Predictive Maintenance
- Which Questions Does Your Oil Analysis Program Answer?
- How to Optimize the Effectiveness of Oil Analysis
- Oil Analysis Effectively Uncovers Hidden Problems
- Oil Analysis—Choose Your Weapon
- Using Oil Analysis to Monitor the Depletion of Defoamant Additives
- Five Essential Lube Oil Properties Not Routinely Reported by Your Oil Lab
- Is Your Oil Analysis Program a Quart Low?
- Oil Analysis and the Lean Organization
- Today’s Oil Detectives Have a New Bag of Tricks
- Your Oil is Talking… But are You Listening?
Lubricant Handling & Storage
Lubricant Selection
Lubricant Supplier Selection
Lubrication Excellence
- The Seven Levels to Lubrication Excellence
- Creating an Engineering Specification for Lubrication Excellence
- Defining and Executing Excellence in Lubrication
- How to Optimize the State of Lubrication
- Philosophies of Transformational Change and ICML 55
- Effective Lube Oil Management
- The Difference Between Good Lubrication and Good Lubricants
- Execute Lubrication. When it comes to oil analysis and lubrication, execution beats brilliance.
- Why Should Managers Care About Oil?
- Will ISO 55000 Change the Definition of Lubrication Excellence?
- Precision Lubrication for the Power Generation Industry
Lubrication Miscellaneous
- The Hidden Dangers of Lubricant Starvation
- These Additives Don’t Exist
- Add Oil Circulation to Gear and Bearing Sumps for Greater Reliability
- Optimizing Lubrication and Lubricant Analysis
- Successful Oil Analysis Practices in the Industrial Plant
- The Difference Between Good Lubrication and Good Lubricants
- 12 Lubrication Myths that Need to End
Machine Flushing & Oil Reclamation
Machine Reliability & Asset Management
- Ask Your OEM to Accessorize New Equipment for Lubrication Excellence
- Demand Reliability Readiness from Equipment Builders
- Linking Enhanced Reliability to the State of Lubrication
- Evolution of Maintenance Man
- Intervention is Key to Machine Life Extension
- The Importance of Sustainability for Transformational Change
- The Power of Truthful Assessments in Jumpstarting a Reliability Transformation
- A New Look at Criticality Analysis for Machinery Lubrication
- The Hot Stove Effect in Precision Lubrication
Maintenance
Metrics & KPIs
Oil Change & Lubricant Consumption
Oil Sampling
Particle Contamination
- An Introduction to Fluid Contamination Analysis
- Clean Oil Reduces Engine Fuel Consumption
- Particle Contamination — Both a Cause and a Result of Mechanical Failure
- What Do You Do with a High Particle Count?
- Why Onsite Particle Counting Makes Sense
- Comparison of Particle Counts Between Eight Commercial Oil Analysis Laboratories
- Diesel Engine Oil Particle Counting Methods
- Interpreting Contaminant Analysis Trends into a Proactive and Predictive Maintenance Strategy
- Particle Contamination – 10 Important Things You Should Know
- Recognizing the Causes and Hazards of Silt Lock
- What is the No. 1 Cause and the No. 1 Consequence of Wear?
- Ghost Riders That Haunt Your Oil
- How Dirt can Contaminate a Lubricant
- Take Particle Settling and Oil Sample Agitation Seriously
- The Power of the Patch. Comparing Particle Analysis Methods
- Looking Through the Eyes of Onsite Contaminant Monitors
- Particle Counting – Deploying the Invisible Filter
- Proactive maintenance targets extending machine life
Proactive Maintenance
- Why Proactive Maintenance is Key for a World-Class Lubrication Program
- Proactive Maintenance is a Blueprint for Success
- Proactive Maintenance is the Cost Reduction Strategy for Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines
- Why Onsite Particle Counting Makes Sense
- Proactive Maintenance Cleans Up on Predictive/Preventive Methods
- Proactive Maintenance–A Cost Reduction Strategy
- Proactive Maintenance’s Unruly Cousin
- Extensive Cost Saving Opportunity from Strategic Implementation of Proactive Maintenance in the Iron and Steel Industry
RCA & Failure Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis for Lubrication Failures
- Be Alert to Heat as Both a Contaminant and a Symptom
- Be Proactive to Avoid Root Cause Fault Bubbles
- Don’t Forget Lubricant Criticality When Designing Oil Analysis Programs
- How and Why Machines Wear Out
- Performing a Failure Scene Investigation
- The Power of Root Cause Pre-failure Analysis
- Contaminant Monitoring Targets Root Causes of Machinery Problems
- The Richness of Machine Failure
Sludge & Varnish
- Demystifying Sludge and Varnish
- The Effects of Temperature on Lubricants (Why oil is like an egg)
- What is Your Oil’s Impurity-holding Capacity (IHC)?
- Review of Degradation Mechanisms Leading to Sludge and Varnish in Modern Turbine Oil Formulations
- Sludge and Varnish in Turbine Systems
- Sludge and Varnish: Two Puzzling Contaminants
Training & Maintenance Culture
- 8 Pillars to a Prosperous Maintenance Culture
- Develop a Corporate Education Master Plan
- Education and User Empowerment
- Lubrication Training in the Reliability Era
- Machinery Lubrication Engineer: A Professional Certification
- The Hidden Cost of an Untrained Workforce
- Three Important Words for Success in Lubrication and Oil Analysis
- Does Your Company Need a Maintenance Culture Intervention?
- Remedies for a Bad Maintenance Culture
- You Earn What You Learn
- 12 Smart Ways to Revive a Neglected Lubrication Program
- Adopt a New Philosophy—Change
- Announcing the International Council for Machinery Lubrication
- Six Questions Every Lube Tech Should Be Able to Answer Correctly
- The Six Most Expensive Oil Analysis Tests
- How to Fix a Poor Maintenance Culture [in Russian]
- The Golden Age of Lubrication
- Make Touchstones of Lubrication Excellence Shine
Water & Air Contamination
- Five Ways Aerated Oil Wrecks Machines
- Moisture… the Second Most Destructive Lubricant Contaminant, and its Effects on Bearing Life
- Ten Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Air Contamination
- The Four States of Water in Oil
- Control Moisture Ingression with Tactical Inspection 2.0
- Strategies to Achieve and Sustain Dry Oil
- The Hazards of Water Contamination in Oil
- Filters can Remove Water from Hydraulic Fluid
- Moisture… the Second Most Destructive Lubricant Contaminant, and its Effects on Bearing Life
- Filters can remove the water from hydraulic oil
- Filters kunnen het water uit hydraulische olie verwijderen (Filters can remove the water from hydraulic oil)
Wear Debris Analysis
- Deciphering Important Visual Features of Wear Particles
- Tricks to Classifying Wear Metals and Other Used Oil Suspensions
- Best Practices in Maximizing Fault Detection in Rotating Equipment Using Wear Debris Analysis
- Maximizing Fault Detection in Rotating Equipment Using Wear Debris Analysis
- Origin of Spherical Particles in Lubricants
- Tactics For Identifying Wear Metal and Solid-particle Suspensions
- The Benefits of Using Wear Debris Analysis in Industrial Machinery
- Virgin Particles and Weak Signals: Finding Meaning in Wear Debris