Industrial Manufacturing

Machine condition monitoring based on oil analysis has become an important, if not mandatory, maintenance practice for many companies manufacturing all sorts of products. An effective oil analysis program will keep important manufacturing assets such as pumps, gears, bearings, compressors, engines, hydraulic systems and other oil-wetted machinery in operation by reducing unexpected failures and costly unscheduled down time.

In some cases, manufacturers use oil analysis not only for their own process equipment, but also to ensure that the manufactured product itself is in good mechanical condition. For example, several engine manufacturers that are Spectro customers take samples from engines after they have been run-in, or operated for some time in the factory, before they are allowed to pass final inspection.

Applicable Spectro Products

• Combination Test Kits
• Spectroil Q100 Oil Analysis Spectrometer
• SpectroLNF Q200 Particle Counter, Particle Shape Classifier and Dynamic Viscometer
• SpectroFTIR Oil Analyzers
• SpectroVISC Semi- Automatic Kinematic Viscometers
• SpectroFDM Q600 (FuelSniffer) Fuel Dilution Meter
• SpectroT2FM Q500 Ferrography Lab
• FluidScan^® Q1100

Application Notes

• Analytical Tools to Detect and Quantify Large Wear Particles in Used Lubricating Oil
• Detecting Failures Using Oil Analysis

Selected Spectro Customers

• Eastman Kodak Company
• Cummins Engine
• Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
• Pervouralsk Tube Plant
• Saldhana Steel
• Samsung Corning