Over the last decade, Oil Condition Monitoring has moved from being on the periphery of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) to being the core technology that leads company’s reliability programs. The economic driver behind oil analysis is an organization’s accounting of the Total Cost of Ownership for critical lubrication applications. The universal recognition of the value oil analysis in a CBM program has allowed laboratories to prosper and grow.
Over the last several years however, lubricant formulation chemistry has become more complex. This is in response to higher demands placed upon the oils. The rate and mechanism of fluid degradation has also changed, and some cases, has created more problems. The challenge for laboratories is that the condition monitoring tests that have been used for decades to determine the condition and remaining useful life of a lubricant, may no longer be valid.
Fluitec can help. We are at the forefront of condition monitoring technologies. Fluitec has a long history of working with labs (or for laboratory companies) and share our expertise with our laboratory partners to grow their business to our mutual benefit.
Our RULER technology is the most convenient and efficient method of determining a fluid’s antioxidant package. Our RULER instruments analyze over 150,000 samples per year of the world’s most critical lubricant and grease systems – from airplanes and helicopters to nuclear power plants to army and navy systems. Individual antioxidant measuring has proven to be a much more valuable tool in today’s modern lubricant formulas than tests such as TAN or RPVOT.
Combining RULER with MPC (Membrane Patch Colorimetry) provides a valuable combination to understand the health of the fluid and measure its degradation products. These technologies work synergistically in a host of lubricant applications, such as turbine oils, hydraulic fluids, compressor oils, paper machine oils, transformer fluids to name a few.
Simply put, partnering with Fluitec enables your lab to be more competitive and ultimately, more successful.
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