Machinery Lubrication magazine published by Noria Corporation
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38 Machinery Lubrication Annual Edition | www . machinerylubrication.com W hat is your preventative maintenance program designed to do? What are the objectives of your daily maintenance activities? Is it to maintain the machines toward higher reliability, or is it to maintain the status quo? If you're trying to achieve something higher, keep in mind: if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. For better or worse, machine reliability is joined at the hip with lubrication, whether from a design or maintenance perspective. Proper lubrication ensures that machines run smoothly to minimize the nega- tive impacts of friction and wear. But this isn't one of those things you can just set and forget. While lubrication is important, it can be fickle over time if it's not properly maintained. What begins as the healthy lifeblood of the machine can turn into the murderous poison within and lead to prema- ture machine failure and unexpected downtime. Today, maintenance and reliability have become revolutionized by lubrication management systems (LMS) that help take the guesswork out of best-practice lubrication. is doesn't just apply to the tangible lubricant, but rather lubrication, as a whole, and includes all facets of the process that influence the lubricant to perform at its optimum level. Understanding this concept is a core function in proper maintenance. ACHIEVING RELIABILITY THROUGH LUBRICATION MANAGEMENT COVER STORY Breaking the Decades-Old Status Quo on Maintenance First Seen in Machinery Lubrication Magazine, September 2023 Bennett Fitch, President, Noria Corporation