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Schedule Top-up Container Flushing

We have found that it is best practice to put your portable oil containers on a flushing schedule along with your equipment. Even though we use only new oil in these containers, over time we have found debris in each of them. We filter our new oil straight out of the barrel but somehow these debris particles still show up in our top-up containers.

So we implemented a top-up container flushing schedule to keep our contamination control at an optimum level. Once every four months, we clean and flush all our portable containers to ensure the debris does not reach the equipment in the plant. This drastically improves the cleanliness of the oils we put in our equipment. (Kenny Blackwell, Lube Tech Supervisor, Fluor Operational Maintenance)

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Sustaining Lubrication Excellence

Why do programs designed to improve plant lubrication come and go? Here's advice for achieving lasting excellence in machinery lubrication.
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Implementing a Pump Failure Reduction Program

From the book "Pump User's Handbook: Life Extension"

A plant or operating unit should set itself an improvement goal. One typical goal would be to strive for reducing the number of "problem pumps" by 50 percent in one year's time, or to reduce pump maintenance expenditures by a certain amount in a designated time period. In the spirit of participative management, the initiative for goal setting and program execution should originate with field personnel. While being guided by staff personnel, field forces would make the program work and be credited with its successful implementation.

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Oil Sampling Method Creates Strange Results

An innovative sampling method resulted in some unusual oil analysis reports for this large municipal bus fleet.
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