• Insider Tips on Managing the Costs of Lubricant Filtration

    Insider Tips on Managing the Costs of Lubricant Filtration

    There is a price tag for removing dirt from oil. For large plants and fleets operating in dusty environments, the cost can be substantial – hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Read More

  • What Do You Do with a High Particle Count?

    What Do You Do with a High Particle Count?

    In recent years, I’ve been part of numerous investigations relating to expensive machine failures preceded by oil samples that registered high particle counts. Each time I asked the asset owner, my client, why the aberrant particle trends were not investigated further. In most cases the response was that they didn’t think it merited the extra… Read More

  • Dust Cakes: What Causes Them and Why You Should Care

    Dust Cakes: What Causes Them and Why You Should Care

    We’ve all seen them. Perhaps some of us daily. Many take on a certain beauty, almost like a natural cave formation or a work of art. Most have organic characteristics like mosses or algae. Read More