Extending Equipment Life with Cleaner Oil

Excellence in every aspect of business is the daily goal at Bunge, a global agribusiness and food ingredient company. Essential to this effort is the organization’s asset reliability and reporting optimization program (ARROP). Among the most important components of this program are monitoring and improving how equipment is maintained, including handling and storage of machine lubricants. 

 

Extending Equipment Life with Cleaner Oil

When to Use an Oil Analysis Lab

“Would you recommend using an oil analysis laboratory for small oil volumes, such as for pump bearings, or large-volume oil reservoirs like in heavy equipment?”

 

When to Use an Oil Analysis Lab

A Simple Guide to Performing Better Lubrication Surveys

“Are there any guidelines for conducting a lubrication survey?”

A lubrication “survey” can mean different things to different people, and depending on what you are hoping to accomplish, there are several ways to approach it. Examining individual pieces of equipment and trying to determine what lubricant and lubrication cycle are needed would be considered a survey by some. However, scoring the lubrication program as a whole and identifying areas of deficiency in the process is also called a survey. Both of these require spending time in the field and understanding the intricacies of lubrication at a particular facility, but that is where the similarities end.

 

A Simple Guide to Performing Better Lubrication Surveys

How the IIoT Is Changing Condition Monitoring

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 are already unleashing enormous value in plants around the world. It seems that today’s younger, digital workforce is the energy that propels this change. Past efforts had been sluggish to say the least.

 

How the IIoT Is Changing Condition Monitoring