Need Blood Transfusion !!! Don't give the wrong group please...
Mohammad Naseer Uddin BE (Mech) MLE, MLA-II, MLA-I, MLT-I, CRL, CMRP, VPR, VIM
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Mohammad Naseer Uddin BE (Mech) MLE, MLA-II, MLA-I, MLT-I, CRL, CMRP, VPR, VIM
Reliability Manager at Asset Reliability and Arabian Technologies | Machinery Reliability Consultancy and Oil analysis
Last week, a compressor bearing failure reminded me about a news which I read a couple of years ago, about the death of a woman when she received the wrong blood type during a transfusion. The reason being “post-transfusion ABO incompatibility hemolysis” — a medical emergency that results from the rapid destruction of red blood cells when a patient receives an incorrect blood type.
Although the Cases in which a patient receives the wrong blood during a transfusion are “exceedingly rare,” according to a senior doctor, Death occurs once in 1.8 million blood transfusions.
Now coming back to the subject of rotating machinery that rides on a thin 10 micron film of lubricant, the role of lubricant is similar to the life blood in the humans. Unfortunately, the level of awareness about the risks of cross-contamination between various lubricants is very poor among majority of the persons handling these machines and that results in loosing millions of dollars in terms of Maintenance cost and lost production.
In the current challenging market situation, now it is time for LEAN implementation in Lubrication management.
Key Benefits:
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Cost savings through Lubricant inventory rationalization / consolidation.
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Usage of healthy lubricants in the machines based on FIFO, improves machinery reliability.
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Reduced number of lubricant types, minimizes chances of cross contamination associated problems.
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Easier to manage lesser number of lubricant types.
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Lesser space requirement for keeping optimized stock levels.
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Elimination of chances of wrong lube oil type/brand supply to site, that may lead to machinery damage and production loss.
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Many many more
Senior Rotables Specialist
8 年Mohammad, this is so true! This needs to be also duplicated for any repairs to equipment off site as I have experienced so many anomalies in regards to lubrication which have cost us much downtime.
QC Engineer at Zeeco Europe Ltd.
8 年are you going to tell machinery manufacturers that they will have to choose which lubricant goes in their machine form a list you have compiled?
CEO at Tec-Team LLC: Industrial cleaners, machining fluids, Asphalt release, Equipment lubricants.
8 年My company has developed a product (still in the testing phase but ready to go) that will eliminate so many problems. As a concentrate, it is used as the lubricant and way oil, and when diluted with water it is the coolant and cutting fluid. The product stays clear when diluted so you can see the parts during the cutting process. Finally, it is odorless and clear, non- hazardous and biodegradable. Shipping and disposal are much more cost friendly and efficient. Workers love it! Look for Clearkut at www.tecteamllc.com.
Reliability Manager at Asset Reliability and Arabian Technologies | Machinery Reliability Consultancy and Oil analysis
8 年There is a desperate need to share the awareness to the people involved in handling the lubricants at any stage of the lubricant life cycle (from lubricant manufacturing / blending upto the lubricant disposal from machine) so that it is treated with the right 'Attitude' what it deserves. This will reduce the frequency of lubrication failures and eventually improve the reliability performance of machinery.
The analogy is also used by the oil and equipment monitoring services (OCM and ECM) that SGS provide. To help explain this service we say it is just like a blood test taken by your GP. That is, we are able to identify problems through chemical and physical testing of the lubricant. If the samples are taken regularly we can predict failures and minimise or avoid downtime.