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As part of its annual Lube
Room Challenge, Machinery
Lubrication recently asked
its readers to submit excep-
tional lube rooms that
incorporate best-practice features.
A number of readers met the chal-
lenge and were proud to show how
their lubricant storage and handling
methods have been transformed.
e following entries illustrate how a
properly designed lube room marks an
important step in the journey toward
lubrication excellence.
Anheuser-Busch InBev
When a companywide initiative
was launched to roll out a Six Sigma
5-S process at each of Anheuser-
Busch InBev's 32 plants in North
America, it became obvious to the
St. Louis brewery just how much
more effi cient and eff ective it could
be if it kept pushing toward a world-
class lubrication room. At the time,
the plant's lube room was too small
and unorganized with numerous
redundant lubricants. Oils of the
same viscosity and greases of the
same grade from multiple suppliers
Taking Lubricant
Storage and
Handling to the
Next Level
2018 LUBE ROOM CHALLENGE
Oil totes and drums are now labeled with a color-coded tag
to identify the lubricant type and viscosity.
The Anheuser-Busch InBev lube room was too small and
unorganized with numerous redundant lubricants.
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