Desiccant breathers are an effective preventive maintenance tool to mitigate moisture contamination into your equipment. However, choosing the right one for your application can be tricky.
Air pressure can build up in a bearing housing for several reasons. One, is that the fill port is closed with a plug. Additionally, the shaft seals are not exchanging any air. Either they are tight lip seals, magnetic seals, or could be labyrinth seals that become defective due to installation.
Poor planning and execution while taking the oil samples for analysis will lead to inaccurate or irrelevant oil analysis reports, and incorrect or even harmful responses. You can do better – and when you do, you’ll get more accurate insights about your equipment that you can actually use to improve reliability.
A shutdown may be your best opportunity to catch up – and even get ahead. Explore the upgrades you may want to make and learn how to get started.
If you only perform maintenance procedures when you need to, based on data and science, you stand to save time and money.
If you’re among the many industrial professionals who still view critical equipment lubricants as mere consumables – commodities to which you give little thought other than price – consider this: Poor lubrication causes as much as 60% of all equipment failures.
Every lubricant is subject to different conditions, processes and iffy human behavior throughout your facility (and even before it gets there). And at every turn is risk. From a lubricant’s arrival, to its storage, transfer and application, and throughout its life cycle, what happens can have a big impact on the viability of your lubricant.
Trico’s President, on the Need to Keep Growing Lubrication Knowledge.
