Lubrication Strategies and Tips How to “Kick-start” any Lubrication Program

1 Design Stage Lubrication Strategies and Tips
1.1 Design Strategy One: Designing Lubrication Delivery Systems based on Lifecycle Costs, Maintainability, and Environmental Factors
1.2 Design Strategy Two: Learn how to Protect Bearings from Cradle to Grave
1.3 Design Strategy Three: Specify and Choose the Correct Lubricant Seals for the Job
1.4 Design Strategy Four: Adopt a “Lubrication by Design” Approach Toward Lubrication

2 Lubrication Management Strategies and Tips
2.1 Lubrication Management Strategy One: Adopting a Failure Scene Investigation (FSI) Approach to Lubrication Failure Management, Analytics, and Diagnostics
2.2 Lubrication Management Strategy Two: Take Advantage of Planned and Unplanned Shutdowns
2.3 Lubrication Management Strategy Three: Prepare for a Certification Audit
2.4 Management Strategy Four: Using Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Measures to Showcase Lubrication Program Effectiveness
2.5 Lubrication Management Strategy Five: Introducing New Lubricants into a Plant
2.6 Lubrication Management Strategy Six: Lubrication Mapping

3 Lubricant Receiving and Storage Strategies and Tips
3.1 Lubricant Receiving and Storage Strategy One: Design your Lube Storage Facility with Foresight
3.2 Lubricant Receiving and Storage Strategy Two: Implement a Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) Lubricant Management Program
3.3 Lubricant Receiving and Storage Strategy Three: Choose the Correct Lubricant Storage Reservoir for the Job

4 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategies and Tips
4.1 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy One: Set Up your Single Point Lubricator to Immediately Function when Installed
4.2 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy Two: Regularly Check Temperatures of Working Lubricant Reservoirs
4.3 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy Three: Use Dedicated Filter Carts to Clean and Transfer in Plant Oil Lubricants
4.4 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy Four: Don’t Believe Everything you See on the Internet
4.5 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy Five: Extend your Lubricant’s Life
4.6 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy Six: Insure Against Catastrophic Failure due to Lubricant Incompatibility when Changing Over to a New Lubricant
4.7 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy Seven: Control Grease Application Consistency with Grease Gun Standardization
4.8 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy Eight: Always Pre-fill Grease Lubricant Lines when Installing New System Lines or Replacing Damaged Lines
4.9 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy Nine: Choose your Lubricant Delivery Lines Wisely
4.10 Lubricant Application and Operational Strategy Ten: Consolidate your Lubricant Choices

5 Contamination Avoidance and Control Strategies and Tips
5.1 Contamination Avoidance and Control Strategies and Tips One: Choose a Contamination Control Reservoir Breather
5.2 Contamination Avoidance and Control Strategies and Tips Two: Understanding your Recirculating Oil System Needs
5.3 Contamination Avoidance and Control Strategies and Tips Three: When to Perform Contamination Avoidance (CA) versus Contamination Control
5.4 Understanding Contamination Avoidance and Control

6 Predictive Testing Strategies and Tips
6.1 Predictive Testing Strategies and Tips One: Employ a PCDA Strategy to Eliminate Wasteful Reactive Practices from your Lubrication Program
6.2 Predictive Testing Strategies and Tips Two: Implement an Industrial Oil Analysis Program
6.3 Predictive Testing Strategies and Tips Three: Getting World Class Results from your Oil Analysis Program Requires Using the Right Container to Collect your Oil Sample

7 Weather Related Strategies and Tips
7.1 Weather Related Strategies and Tips One: Use of Outdoor Lubrication Systems in Cold Climate Winters

8 Lubrication Safety Strategies and Tips
8.1 Lubrication Safety Strategies and Tips One: The Role of the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) in a Lubrication Management Program
8.2 Lubrication Safety Strategies and Tips Two: Making Safety Priority One!

Biography

Kenneth E. Bannister is a UK technical apprenticed and accredited mechanical design engineer, credited on several engineering patents, two of which involved tribology aspects in their design. Ken is also a Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional and since 1988 has consulted worldwide helping clients implement practical and meaningful asset management, reliability, and lubrication management programs. Ken is one of a few asset management consultants holding expertise and accreditation in the field of tribology, lubrication failure management and industrial lubrication application as a designated professional Machinery Lubrication Engineer.

Ken was the first consultant to assist a company through the ISO 55001 asset management certification process in North America and was part of the development team for the ICML 55world lubrication standard. More recently Ken was a contributing author and senior editor for the compilation of the ICML 55.0, ICML 55.1, and ICML 55.2 standard documents.

Lubrication Strategies and Tips is Ken’s fifth industrial lubrication book and joins his recently published Practical Lubrication for Industrial Facilities – Fourth Edition and the “Maintenance Partnerships” handbook. Ken also wrote the very successful Lubrication for Industry book. and the lubrication section for the “Machinery’s Handbook” as well as other books on Energy Management and Predictive Maintenance. Over his career, Ken has published over 650 articles and white papers for numerous international maintenance magazines, with over half dedicated to the field of practical lubrication.

Ken was a founding board member of the Plant Engineering Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC) and currently sits on the board of directors for the International Council for Machinery Lubrication (ICML) responsible for the rollout of the ICML 55 world lubrication standard.