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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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