Edition Archive
July – August, 2021
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Finding Effective Online Training in 2021
What are you really doing when you buy a training seat?
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Technical guidance, field experience and industry reporting from this edition.
Publisher's Note
With the vast majority of states under a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus, you may have started to hear a lot more about the benefits of online training. … Over the last decade…
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Dust Cakes: What Causes Them and Why You Should Care
“No one enjoys removing and cleaning this muck, which is often why dust cakes continue to grow.” We’ve all seen them. Perhaps some of us daily. Many take on a certain beauty, almost like a natural…
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Finding Effective Online Training in 2021
What are you really doing when you buy a training seat?
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The Argument for a Single Lube Supplier
“The process of choosing a lubricant supplier should be viewed as an opportunity. It is a chance to form a strategic relationship with an outside organization that will help you achieve goals, not…
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Store, Plan, Execute, Excel: (R2P) Lubricant Storage and Lube Room Factor Overview
“In many ways, the future of your lubricants is the future of your machinery.” Around the industry these days, we all hear similar things about keeping in-service lubricants clean, cool and dry.
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Asset Myopia: The Problem with Short-Sighted Machine Configurations
“Many industrial facilities remain stubbornly short- sighted about the acquisition, installation, and operation of their machines.” Myopia is a condition in which the eye fails to refract, bend…
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Contamination Control Objectives
“Keeping our lubricants cool, clean and dry will help equipment run better, last longer and become more productive with less down time.” The six steps for managing and controlling lubricant…
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Lube-Tips
New Grease Gun Caution … Before installing grease into a new grease gun, consider disassembling the gun and cleaning it thoroughly. Metal shavings have been found in new grease guns. Tese metal…
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Reveal Hidden Problems with This Top Lubrication Metric
“There is one metric in lubrication that has proven extremely important and effective at revealing hidden lubricant-and equipment- related issues. This metric is known as Lubricant Utilization”…
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Training and Certification
… A 4 day Live Online & Interactive Training on Essentials of Machinery Lubrication on Essentials of Machinery Lubrication was conducted for the Engineering team of JK Tyres…
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Mixable or not mixable– that is the question here
If there are timeless questions asked by lubricant users that never seem to become "obsolete," then the question of the miscibility of different lubricating oils or hydraulic fluids is definitely…
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Industry News
Valvoline launches All-Terrain heavy-duty diesel engine oil … Valvoline Inc. announced the launch of ValvolineTM All-Terrain, a new engine oil specially formulated for off-highway, heavy-duty…
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