Lubrication

Lubrication Monitoring

Keep every lubricant in your plant clean, dry and fit for service, and know before a machine is put at risk.

Why monitor lubrication?

Most machine failures start in the oil. Lubrication monitoring tracks the condition of the lubricant itself, so that degraded, contaminated or wrong oil is caught and corrected before it damages bearings, gears and seals.

What we check

Each sample is tested against the limits set for its machine and its oil:

  • Oil condition: Viscosity, oxidation, acid and base number, to show how much useful life the oil has left.
  • Contamination: Water, dirt and particle counts, to find where foreign material is getting in.
  • Additives: The protective additive package, to confirm the oil still does what it was chosen for.
  • Correct lubricant: That the oil in the machine is the oil that should be there, with no mixing or top-up errors.

A programme, not a one-off test

We set up the sampling points, the sampling interval and the limits with your maintenance team, then report every sample against each machine's own history, so a change shows up as a trend rather than a surprise.