When you're working in an industry, you notice that lubricants applied to machines for their maintenance often leak. Regardless of how much effort you put to guard the oils against leakage, it still happens.

While it’s common for your lubrication oil to grow thicker and lose its viscosity with time and age, there may be several reasons that are causing its early and immature thickening.

The use of industrial lubricants is very mandatory and crucial for industries around the world. Industrial lubricants play a vital role in assuring that the desired production rate is met by the plant and machinery used in the process. In this blog, we are going to discuss some of the industries that rely on high-quality industrial lubricants to produce and manufacture products at the required speed so that demand is met.

Conveyor chains are a vital component in industrial production processes, and significantly improve their efficiency and effectiveness, but only if they are up and running properly. As essential as they are in warehouses, factories, and other facilities, their maintenance and chain lubrication is often a reconsideration.

Lubrication saves the performance and longevity of your machine if done properly. In this blog, we’re going to address 5 types of improper lubrication that you might be doing and may face consequences for in the form of damage to your machine.

The amount of time and effort required to embed reliability and maintenance best practices into an organization entirely is substantial. Although it’s a long-term commitment, it’s still crucial to keep delivering short-term positive results along the way of achieving maintenance and reliability excellence.

Achieving adequate lubrication remains one of the first challenges for many industrial operations. Insufficient lubrication practices mostly lead to expensive machine bearings failure. One of the best ways to address such costly issues is to create key performance indicators (KPIs) related to your lubrication strategy.

Machine bearings can easily experience unexpected failures, even with maintenance plans in place at a production facility. Bearings are selected by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for each application, together with the manufacturer’s designed life expectancy, keeping in mind fatigue failure.

Water is probably the most intense and complicated form of contaminant when it comes to affecting the functionality of different parts of machines, especially the bearings. That’s mainly because water co-exists with oils in various states and also undergoes different physical and chemical transformations over time.

Base oils are made of crude oil and are also called mineral oils. These oils can be divided into five groups. In this blog, we will study these five groups of base oils so that you can better understand and use these different types of oils.