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advanced than the other three.
Likewise, tactical change can be
stretched across more than one
level at any point in time.
Bird's Eye View
An overview of how this
might look is graphically illus-
trated above. As shown, People
and Culture are at various
substages between Level 1 and
3. In contrast, the tactical activ-
ities of Metrics and Condition
Monitoring are well into the
"Optimizing" stage of level 6
and nearly at level 7. e tactical
progress of Lubricants and Lubri-
cation is stretched between Levels
2 and 4 while Machine Readiness
is lagging at the Crawl stage of
Level 3. Programmatically, prog-
ress can be represented visually as
the weighted average of the four
tactical activities.
ICML 55.1 Alignment
T here a re 12 prima r y
subjects within the standard
ICML 55.1 (Optimized Lubri-
cation of Mechanical Physical
Assets). ese 12 subjects are
cross-referenced to the four
tactical activities. Any organi-
zation meeting the requirements
detailed in ICML 55.1 should,
by default, be at least Level 5 if
not higher. Later this year, the
companion standard ICML 55.2
will be published providing func-
tional detail on how to achieve
compliance with each of the
requirements in 55.1.
ML
About the Author
Jim Fitch has a wealth of
"in the trenches" experience
in lubrication, oil analysis,
tribology and machinery failure
investigations. Over the past
two decades, he has presented
hundreds of courses on these
subjects. Jim has also published
more than 200 technical arti-
cles, papers and publications.
He serves as a U.S. delegate to
the ISO tribology and oil anal-
ysis working group. Since 2002,
he has been the director and a
board member of the Interna-
tional Council for Machinery
Lubrication. He is the CEO
and a co-founder of Noria
Corporation. Contact Jim at
jfitch@noria.com.
AS I SEE IT
Survival
People & Culture
Awareness Crawling Walking Running Optimizing Sustaining
Lubricants & Lubrication
Machine Readiness
Metrics & Condition Monitoring
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