Why Industrial Facilities Should
be Utilizing Lubrication Tagging
and Labeling
Condition Monitoring, Lubricant Analysis & Troubleshooting
LUBRICANT SELECTION
Factor: S3P
As a Technical Consul-
tant here at Noria
Corporation, I see
many different failures
related to lubrication issues. We are
called out to consult on and fix the
problems through better, more precise
lubrication practices. One of the most
common issues we run into is that the
Lubrication Technician accidentally
put the wrong lubricant into the
machine; this is very easy to do when
a proper lubricant labeling system
isn't in place and can lead to many
different types of problems within the
machine. e mixing of incompat-
ible lubricants can cause a vast array
of issues, such as seal expansion or
shrinkage, additive precipitation, loss
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Factor:
S3P — Lubricant
Identification System
Level:
Platform (P)
Stage:
Lubricant Selection
About:
A lubricant identi-
fication system is a
crucial step to ensure
that technicians can
correctly match the
right lubricant to its
corresponding machine
through visual aids,
labels and color-coding.
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Travis Richardson | Noria Corporation
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Thickener
Type
ISO
6743
Grease
Classification
Grease
Consistency
NLGI Grade
Number
ISO 6743 Lubricant
Classification
ISO or SAE Viscosity Grade Base Oil Type Base Oil Type Classification
Alphanumeric Code for Liquid Lubricants (Oil)
Alphanumeric Code for Semisolid Lubricants (Grease)
1
1 2 3 4
5 6
2 3 4
Base Oil ISO Viscosity
Grade
Base Oil Type Base
Oil Classification
Figure 1: LIS Breakdown
