Machinery Lubrication India, March – April, 2019

Machinery Lubrication India, March – April, 2019

  • Publisher’s Note

    Throughout the world, tightening environmental legislation has lead to stricter performance standards. This is forcing the need for high performance lubricants. The introduction of… Read more...
  • Who Should Inspect Your Lubricated Machines?

    "Ultimately, you seek skillful and dependable completion of the entire inspection plan by one or more inspectors with the time, skills and resources to perform their tasks." Perhaps you’ve heard… Read more...
  • Base Oil: Building Blocks for Lubricants

    Throughout human history, energy has been a key enabler of living standards. This has triggered the evolution of lubrication to give the longer life to machinery & tools. A lubricant can be… Read more...
  • Proactive vs. Reactive Hydraulic Maintenance

    “By checking your systems on a regular basis, you’ll often find a failing component before it causes a shutdown of the machine.” There is a lot to be said for reactive maintenance. “If it ain’t… Read more...
  • Selecting Lubricants for Pharmaceutical Facilities

    Over the past few years, there has been an increasing interest in the use of food-grade lubricants for machines operating in the pharmaceutical industry. While these lubricants can be beneficial… Read more...
  • When to Use Fire-resistant Hydraulic Fluids

    Lubricants for industrial equipment are tasked with many different functions, including protecting against corrosion and wear, transferring contaminants to filters or dissipating heat from hot… Read more...
  • Using Social Media to Build a Community of Certified Professionals

    “True virtual community and camaraderie is organic; it can only be crowd-sourced.” Given that the mission of the International Council for Machinery Lubrication (ICML) is to help lubrication… Read more...
  • How Controlling Three Contaminants Significantly Reduces Machine Failures

    “By clearly understanding these issues and the requirements for improving each failure mode, you can help to minimize the repeat offenders.” One major struggle maintenance groups seem to be… Read more...
  • Lube-Tips

    Wear Gloves When Packing Roller Bearings … When hand-packing roller bearings, wear disposable food-grade gloves. This has a two-fold effect. First, it helps keep your hands free from grease, but it… Read more...
  • Ask the Experts

    “What is an acceptable tolerance level for the viscosity index of compressor oil (32 viscosity synthetic oil) for a screw compressor?” … When it comes to issues of viscosity… Read more...
  • Industry News

    Castrol India Brings Truck Aasana to Navi Mumbai … … Castrol India in association with Te Yoga Institute, recently conducted a training programme of Truck Aasanas for the truck driver… Read more...
  • Base Oil Report

    India’s crude oil imports from Iran, which have been on a decline since November last year on the back of fresh US sanctions, suffered a 6.5 per cent fall to 1.56 Million Tonne (MT) in January as… Read more...

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