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Readers Challenge    May 5, 2004

Justifying an Oil Analysis Program

Joe Durushia, Sr. Engineer Analyst, Nuclear Management Company

Predictive maintenance programs usually have a 6:1 payback.

Oil analysis is vital to condition based maintenance on all lubricated components, not just oil changes.

Case study of 750 machines at Arizona Public Service Station - Oil analysis combined with vibration analysis can detect 100% of bearing faults before failure.

Due to the slow rotation of many of our machines many bearing faults will show up in oil analysis before seen in vibration analysis.

Oil analysis helps determine severity and pinpoint source of other types of problems that may not look too bad with vibration data.

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