If you’re a manager or owner of a factory, you know that the lifespan of your machinery can be a direct correlation to the amount of revenue that you have coming in the door. If one of your machines is down because it needs a repair, then it can hold up your whole production process. Not to mention that machine repairs are not cheap on top of the incurring costs they will already be creating from the downtim in your production line.
To ensure that your machines are performing at their highest available quality, you should conduct an oil analysis on a regular basis to constantly be checking on the amount of oil that is present within your machinery.
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How Oil Analysis Can Help Expand Your Machine’s Lifetime
Machines’ gears are meant to slide smoothly over one another as your machine is performing its job. However if there is not enough lubricant within the machine, and on the gears, then the gears will begin to grind on one another. As this happens, your machine will have to work harder and use extra energy for the machine to work at the same speed as it can work when it has the right amount of oil in it. A lack of oil is going tto significantly shorten the amount of life that your machinery has.
Being able to conduct an oil analysis will allow you to know when it is time to have a new oil change. This will make sure that your machine is never over working itself and that it will reach its full potential for its lifetime.
Other Reasons To Run An Oil Analysis
Check that your oil is clean and has not become diluted. Not only are oil analysis good for checking the amount of oils or the levels of oil that are present within your machinery but oil analysis can also check to see if your oil has become diluted or if it has become too dirty to work well within the machine.
Occasionally, in humid environments, water can get into the oil of your machine, thus diluting the properties of the oil itself. Since water is not a lubricant, your machine gears will start to grind even though the level of oil may not appear to have dropped. This can be detrimental to your machine.
In addition to the oil becoming contaminated because of water, it can also become contaminated with other fixtures in the air if your machinery is located in an older warehouse where there is a lot of dust consistently being thrown up into the air. This can hurt your machines and their oil content.Use an oil analysis and it will be able to show that these dust particles have infiltrated your machinery and signal to you that you need to add new clean oil to the machine itself.
Overall, conducting an oil analysis on your machinery on a routine basis will benefit your business.
