Machinery Lubrication magazine published by Noria Corporation
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www . machinerylubrication.com | May - June 2020 | 37 ML Expand your oil analysis skills anytime with our online Oil Analysis II course. Visit www.noria.com/train today to learn more! Oil Analysis II (OAII) focuses on extending machine and lubricant life by emphasizing proper fluid analysis. Students will learn how to ensure accurate sampling and how to translate minute lubricant adjustments into major savings. Students have the option to test for ICML Level II MLA certification. questions met their expectations. A non-scientific survey yielded a consensus that the exam can offer both pleasant surprises and rude awakenings, even for the most expe- rienced and prepared candidates. Those who were expecting a challenge certainly found it. Michael Holloway, president of 5th Order Industry, assumed there would be a lot of material to absorb and remember, which he soon learned was accurate. "The exa m was a beast," Holloway said. Nurudin Bn Mochamad Djamil, technical specialist for Pertamina Lubricants, had one word to describe the questions: tough. Petrosave Inte- grated Services' Nnamdi Achebe used that same word to explain his own experience. "My assumption that it was going to be a tough exam proved to be very true," Achebe noted. "I used up the entire four hours allotted, and after that exam I felt mentally drained. I slept all through my travel back from Texas to New York on a Greyhound bus." Jose Camilo Valest Sandoval, technical support engineer at Tritech, thought some of the questions dealt with details that caused him to struggle. "I felt difficulties in topics of asset management, waste and used lubricant management, environ- mental compliance, and storage of spare parts conditions," he reported. Because MLE content overlaps with oil analysis and lubrication practices covered in the MLA and MLT certifications, Sandoval real- ized he should have spent more time reviewing those basics rather than assuming such knowledge would come back to him during the MLE test. "ere were some basic concepts (e.g., about lubricant films) that I believed were learned, and I didn't give them enough importance," he added. Oxy USA's Nathan Thomas agreed that the MLE questions address more of the lubricant life cycle than one might anticipate. He, too, was challenged on the same areas as Sandoval. "I assumed the exam would require a relatively high-level understanding of the lubricant life cycle, especially around formulation and disposal as they relate to envi- ronmental and disposal concerns," omas explained. "(But) I under- estimated the extent to which these areas would be covered on the exam and found myself struggling on these questions." omas also observed that his specific career path had not exposed him to all possible applications that could be formulated into test ques- tions from BoK resources. Of course, not all machinery is used across all industries, but two hours into an