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» Advice for Writing Lubrication PMs
» What Is Your Filter Capture Efficiency?
» The Most Harmful State of Water-in-Oil
» Solving Hydraulic System Overheating

Advice for Writing Lubrication PMs

When writing PMs that require multiple grease guns to be taken up ladders and stairs, it is beneficial to add a stop point in the PM that states, for example, "Before ascending these stairs, make sure you have guns A, C and D". This stops techs from having to carry too much equipment up flights of stairs or ladders, which is a safety positive. It also stops them from getting up to the top with the incorrect guns and mixing greases in equipment, which leads to premature failures. (Patrick Walsh, maintenace specialist, BHP Billiton)

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How Does Grease Set
a Land Speed Record?

Of the 27 greases tested, which grease solved the China Star bullet train's overheating problem and helped them set a new land speed record? Click for the answer.


What Is Your Filter Capture Efficiency?

From "How to Select a Motor Oil and Filter for Your Car or Truck"

If you're going to pay a premium to get a high-performance filter, look carefully at the capture efficiency (particle size retention) of the filter. For instance, a filter that has a capture efficiency of 95 percent for particles larger than 10 microns will remove 95 percent of the particles larger than 10 microns on a single pass, and 5 percent of the particles larger than 10 microns will pass through the filter. It is worth noting that this performance property is a particularly large component of the premium price you're paying for good filtration.

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Lube Trivia: The Most Harmful State of Water-in-Oil

Test your knowledge and prepare for ICML lubrication or oil analysis certification.

Question: Which does more harm to the oil, its additives and oil-wetted machine surfaces: dissolved or emulsified water?

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RCM Defines the 100 Failure Modes
of Lubrication

Understanding failure modes of equipment, processes, and individual components helps you decide how to prevent and eliminate them. Lubricants and lubrication programs have over 100 failure modes that can be defined and controlled. In this session at Reliable Plant 2009, you'll learn how to use RCM to define these failure modes so that you can prevent and eliminate each of them.

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Solving Hydraulic System Overheating

Overheating is a common problem with hydraulic equipment. Learn why hydraulics overheat and two ways to solve overheating issues in this article from Machinery Lubrication magagazine.

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