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LUBRICANT HANDLING & APPLICATION
Machinery Lubrication I
Machinery Lubrication II
Oil Analysis II
professionals, and we don't have to ask
questions like, "why do we keep running
out of our electric motor grease — we
only grease our motors twice a year, and
they don't take that much?" (SPOILER
ALERT: the untrained folks that you are
allowing to apply lubricants are likely
putting whatever is handy into whatever
is squeaking.)
5S or 6S your spaces
Many people look at 5S/6S as some
superfluous thing that just takes time to
set up and has no intrinsic value. ese
people are wrong. Everything about
5S/6S directly applies to lean practices
and simplifies inventory management
for those controlling stock and those who
use the items. A well-stocked lube-room
benefits from having everything stored in
a manner that allows anyone who walks
in to recognize what is kept where, what
items are missing, what stock is low and
even the condition of our equipment (be
it grease guns, single point lubricators or
top-up containers).
ML
About the
Author
Jeremie Edwards
is an Associate Tech-
nical Consultant at Noria Corporation.
He is one of an elite few certified by the
International Council for Machinery
Lubrication (ICML) as a Machinery
Lubrication Engineer (MLE) and did so
in order to become the best advisor for
clients when it comes to their continuing
education needs. Before joining Noria,
Jeremie served six years in the U.S. Army
as a parachute rigger and was deployed
in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey and
Germany. Contact Jeremie at jedwards@
noria.com
