Edition Archive
November – December, 2015
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Publisher’s Note
Our Machinery Lubrication India feature story focuses on Lube rooms, at present an essential part of industrial lubrication. As companies realize that lubrication management is essential to…
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Publisher’s Note
Our Machinery Lubrication India feature story focuses on Lube rooms, at present an essential part of industrial lubrication. As companies realize that lubrication management is essential to…
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5 Ways to Reduce Lubricant Spending
Lubricant procurement is not the largest expenditure in a typical maintenance budget. However, it is viewed as a real, tangible expense that is frequently targeted for cost reduction. When it…
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2014 Lube Room Challenge: Innovative Ways to Transform Your Lube Room
As part of its annual Lube Room Challenge, Machinery Lubrication once again asked readers to submit exceptional lube rooms that incorporate best-practice features. Several readers were proud to…
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Root Cause Analysis: From Detection to Implementation
… Root cause analysis is an important component to any maintenance department. Its goal is to eliminate the source of equipment failures, not simply the symptoms, in order to prevent…
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How to Get the Most from Your Particle Counter
Particle contamination is known to cause countless machine failures. One of the best tools to measure and understand this root cause is particle counting. Few facilities utilize the power of this…
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How Cold Temperatures Affect Your Lubricants
As winter weather settles in across much of the United States with cold fronts creeping in from the north, have you ever thought about the effects these temperature changes can have on your…
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Recognizing the Causes and Hazards of Silt Lock
Do you know about silt lock? This common condition causes motion impediment failure in certain machines. While this type of failure usually doesn’t involve wear or permanent internal damage to the…
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Gearbox Condition Monitoring Through Used Oil Analysis
When the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, purchased new planetary gearboxes for its wastewater sludge dewatering centrifuges, it decided to implement a proactive used oil analysis maintenance…
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What a Maintenance Reliability Program Should Look Like
The hardest part of starting a reliability program is freeing up time to work on proactive tasks. The maintenance department at Leprino Foods spent most of its time repairing broken equipment.
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News and Events
Indian Oil’s Servohyvis EE 46 Product Launch … Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. launched their newest product – a new long drain hydraulic oil Servohyvis EE 46 at the most recent CII exhibition EXCON…
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Your Oil Analysis Program
How effective is your oil analysis program? To determine the answer, it is necessary to conduct a self-assessment of your program’s design and management. Many oil analysis programs have limited…
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Base Oil Report
India’s oil imports from Iran fell 41.5% in October from a year ago to the lowest in seven months, as state-run refiner MRPL cut imports due to a maintenance shutdown. India, Iran’s top customer…
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