Process Improvement - Productivity Analysis and Productivity Engineering.
Industrial engineer analyzes each process into its ultimate, simple elements, and compares each of these simplest steps or processes with an ideal or perfect condition and modifies the element appropriately. - F.W. Taylor - Hugo Diemer.
Prof. Hugo Diemer - Taylor's Industrial Engineering
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/prof-hugo-diemer-taylors-industrial.html
Industrial engineer has to analyze each and every input that goes into an operation and examine its productivity aspect. Lubricant is an input into various machines and it has productivity and cost implications.
Lubricants and Productivity
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/06/lubricants-and-productivity.html
Lubricant Consolidation and Optimization: Which Lubes Stay and Which Lubes Go?
Paul Farless, Noria Corporation
Lubricant consolidation is the practice of selecting lubricants, stocking only what is necessary for optimal machinery performance on-site.
Survey every lubricated machine and component in the entire facility and identify the lubricants that are in use. Collect pertinent data from each machine; say for electric motors, HP, speed, frame size and other operational and environmental data.
Next, collect the name, make and type of every lubricant in the lube room, as well as any other lubricants in the plant.
Study each machine and component to outfit it with hardware, recommended lubricant, sampling, inspections, etc.
Consider all of the collected information and come to a recommendation for all of the greased components and all of the oiled components.
A new recommended list lubricants having current lubricants in use and available lubricants on market is made. Recommend lubricants based on a codified approach called a Lubricant Identification System (LIS) Code which is brand neutral.
Once the recommendations are formulated, they are sent to the facility for approval by the stakeholders involved. Explanations are provided, and a review is done for this approval process. Once the lubricants are approved, new lubrication instructions are prepared.
Properly dispose of all the lubricants that are not in use. This has two benefits: it opens up space in the lube room for current and recommended lubricants and ensures that the incorrect lubricants randomly found throughout the plant are not accidentally used.
The Final Step: Optimization
It is time to optimize the lubricants that are on-site. “Consolidation” isn’t necessarily the right word to use. Instead, “optimization” is much more accurate. You now have the correct lubricants on-site. The result of the procedure is an optimized selection of lubricants, ensuring the right lubricant is selected for each machine.
We optimize a lube list by assigning specific greases and oils based on the machine data and operational and environmental parameters. This could mean that now the facility only utilizes four greases instead of eight greases; one for high-speed, one for low-speed, one for couplings and one for electric motors, for example. However, that is not always the case. Some lubricants fit the viscosity and additive parameters for multiple machine types, but some lubricants will only meet the parameters of one specific machine. The consolidate and optimize procedure of lubricants is to extend machinery life and optimize machinery performance.
Lubricant selection procedure.
The Basics of Industrial Lubricant Selection
https://blog.chesterton.com/lubrication-maintenance/best-practices-industrial-lubrication/
39 Current Trends in Lubrication and Oil Analysis
Jim Fitch, Noria Corporation
https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/24955/current-trends-lubrication-oil-analysis
New 30.5.2023
Case Studies
Alternative Lubricants and Productivity - Case Study
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/06/alternative-lubricants-and-productivity.html
Making Lubrication Excellence a Business Case Study
Alejandro Meza, Noria Corporation
https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/31600/lubrication-case-study
uD. 20.5.2023
PUB. 13.9.2022
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