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Food-grade Lubricants and the Food Processing Industry
The food processing industry presents unique challenges to lubricant formulation engineers, lubricant marketers, plant lubrication engineers, equipment designers, and builders. While it is never desirable for lubricants to be allowed to contaminate raw materials, work-in-progress. or finished product, the consequences of a lubricant contaminated product is rarely more acute than in the food processing industry.… Read More
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Intervention is Key to Machine Life Extension
Try this simple experiment. With notepad in hand, go out into your plant and walk around a sampling of your most critical machines. These are the ones that have high probability of failure and/or the greatest consequences of failure. Read More
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New Lubrication Commandments – Conserve Energy, Protect the Environment
It seems counterintuitive that lubricants selected to optimize wear control may not be optimum when it comes to energy conservation. Read More
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Lubricant-Based Techniques for Condition Monitoring of Non-Circulating Gear and Bearing Systems
The majority of wear related failures occur as the direct result of particulate contamination. A recent article published in Lubrication Engineering magazine concludes that more than 82% of wear related losses are contaminant induced. Read More