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How does your plant stack up? Are you tracking the right metrics to see
how environmentally friendly your program is doing? Try implementing
these KPIs and remember to be consistent and trend the data.
A measure of the amount of lubricant applied
versus the amount of lubricant disposed of —
If you are putting in 1000 gallons of lubricant into your machines in a
year and only disposing of 750 gallons, there is a potential concern for
where the missing 250 gallons will end up. Are your lubricants leaking
into the process and ending up in the finished product?
Are the leaking lubricants ending up on the floor
or in your wastewater? Another potential reason
these numbers could be off is that the technician
dumping lubricants into the used oil bin is failing
to document it.
A measure of the number of lubricant leaks and
amount of additional lubricants used due to leaks —
Leaking lubricants pose a real threat to the environment by working their
way into the process or the waste system. In addition to this, if you are
continually adding lubricants to a system, you are adding to the total
amount of lubricants that need to be disposed of. By addressing leaks
found on-site, you are adding to the lubricant residence
time. A KPI that could be coupled with this one is how
many days, on average, it takes to repair leaks.
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About the
Author
Travis Richardson is a
technical consultant
for Noria Corporation.
He holds a Level II
Machine Lubrication
Technician (MLT) certi-
fication and a Level
III Machine Lubricant
Analyst (MLA) certi-
fication through the
International Council
for Machinery Lubri-
cation (ICML). Contact
Travis at trichardson@
noria.com.
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