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Jim Fitch wrote a pretty compre-
hensive article recently, going
into the finer minutia of what to
do when you can't get the lubri-
cants that you normally use. I wanted to take
some time and give you a pretty good strategy
to help mitigate some of the woes of having to
swap suppliers to get the lubricants that your
machines need for proper operation.
First off, don't be brand loyal. e lubricant
manufacturers aren't paying your bills. ey
aren't loyal to you — they sell to your compet-
itors. Unfortunately, you just aren't that special
to them, so you don't owe them anything.
Formulations might be "unique" from
brand to brand, but that doesn't mean that
your current lubricant is the only one that can
get the job done (and done well). Start looking
at the technical specifications for these lubri-
cants and the specific needs of the equipment
versus looking for a specific brand of lubricant.
Technical Specs
One of the first things you are going to want
to do is label your oils. Not the way that most
folks do it, with the brand name and whatever
iteration of oil/grease it is, but with the tech-
nical specifications for the given lubricant.
Believe it or not, there are technical spec-
ifications for pretty much any lubricant out
there, and even an ISO standard that defines
the specifications based on usage. ISO 6743 (as
well as ISO 11158:2009) has the areas broken
down into 15 different buckets and then
Lubricant Selection and LIS:
Fight the Current Lack of Supply
Learn More:
noria.com/ascend/
Factor:
S3P — Lubricant
Identification System
Level:
Platform (P)
Stage:
Lubricant Selection
About:
Lubricant Identification
System: A lubricant
identification 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.
More about this
ASCEND
™
Factor
Condition Monitoring, Lubricant Analysis & Troubleshooting
LUBRICANT SELECTION
Factor: S3P
Jeremie Edwards | Noria Corporation
