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Machinery Lubrication March-April 2021

Machinery Lubrication magazine published by Noria Corporation

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4 | March - April 2021 | www . machinerylubrication.com AS I SEE IT Jim Fitch | Noria Corporation The Golden Age of Lubrication As Noria enters its 24th year, we have a lot to be thankful for. It is particularly gratifying to see organizations vigor- ously practicing what we have been teaching for years. Many impressive success stories have been shared. Contamination control has been a constant theme at Noria, and for good reason. It speaks to the real root of a lot of problems. Not just the dirt we can see or feel, but also those tiny and invisible particles many believed were harmless. Instead, we now know they wreak havoc on even the strongest and most powerful of our machines. Every maintenance professional should know that for most machines, "Ten times cleaner oil results in 50 times longer machine life." is is not fantasy. e body of evidence that justifies investment in real changes to lubrication and reliability is enormous. is is the main reason I titled my column "e Golden Age of Lubrication." ere is so much untapped potential available if organizations invest in fundamental things such as education, certification, machine modification, contamination control, standardized work and so much more. Noria's founding business model of publishing, education and services could not have been more inten- tional. at same business model persists today and is backed by the six basic premises that follow. 1. Pay Attention to What Works During the pre-Noria years, I was obsessed with collecting case studies. I amassed hundreds of them, looking for common threads. W hat did highly successful lubrication programs do that others did not, or at least did not do well? I found many. From that collective knowledge, we discovered a new maintenance philosophy that we now call proactive maintenance. is maintenance philosophy is not about searching for machine faults and predicting a future failure. It is about instilling a machine lifestyle change that suppresses the very essence of failure. It is an aspi- rational pursuit of a sustainable state of reliability. Not only does it work, it also preserves maintenance budgets and costs less overall than other practices. Reliability is a lot like quality. As W. Edwards Deming (father of the quality movement) is famous If we fix lubrication first, we don't have to fix the machine later." CONTAMINATION CONTROL & LUBRICANT RECONDITIONING " Learn More: noria.com/ascend/

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