Lubrication
Two Minute Tips
How to Keep Lubricants Clean, Cool & Dry
What are some best practices for lubrication cleanliness at your plant? In this quick Two Minute Tip you will see a few ides for contamination control.
- Rob Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability
Interviews
All About Hydraulic Oil
In this interview, Nathan Walker talks to us about hydraulic oil. Hydraulic oils are the second most important lubricants in our industry, after engine oils. Hydraulics work by...
- Nathan Walker
- Lubrication Engineers
Two Minute Tips
Lubrication of Gear Reducers
Gear reduction is part of the basic power transmission flow in any industry. In the basic unit group consisting of power sources, gear reduction and various types of couplings, gear reduction is a very important factor........
- Daniel Roberts
- Lubrication Engineers
Two Minute Tips
Service Life of Gear Oil
In this quick tip you will learn why gear oil should be removed and replaced with fresh lubricant when the oil had deteriorated or when the oil has become contaminated.....
- Daniel Roberts
- Lubrication Engineers
Articles
Getting Started
Welcome to the home of condition monitoring; CBM CONNECT! The site is designed to provide you with educational articles, videos, and podcasts...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Two Minute Tips
The Drop Point and Lubrication Contamination
Are you familiar with the term "drop point" of a grease? The drop point is the temperature at which the oil and the soap, which are the two main elements in grease...
- Tom Murphy
- SDT
Interviews
Editorial Board Spotlight – K.N.V “Subbu” Subrahmanyam
In this interview, we speak with Subbu about his start in the lubricant analysis field, and get his point of view about key tools and changes in the reliability, lubrication, and wireless vibration analysis industries…
- KNV Subrahmanyam
- Single Peak Lube Technologies
Two Minute Tips
How Not to Store Your Lubricants
Why does our equipment fail? Because we kill it. Regular plant visits shown numerous examples of poor lubricant storage.
- Paul Dufresne
- Reliability Playbook, in Partnership with Lubrication Engineers
Two Minute Tips
The Enemy of Reliability: Over Lubrication
Up to 40% of bearings are killed by over lubrication, and another 10–20% are killed by under lubrication. If this is true at your facility, the fault is caused by human error...
- Tom Murphy
- SDT
