Oil Cleanliness: On-line Condition Monitoring

Technology innovations and success stories

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One of the main tools of operational reliability in the industry is the use of proactive and predictive maintenance, whose objectives are to detect and predict events in machinery and systems that may interfere with the production process and take actions to avoid them, for which they use different techniques and tools to develop their work. As plants and their assets are being digitized and moving towards Industry 4.0, new scenarios are emerging for technological advances in tribology and condition monitoring.

Lubricants and hydraulics are critical fluids for any type of machinery. Many diverse studies have demonstrated that fluid cleanliness is one of the most powerful strategies to eliminate root cause failures of critical assets such as power generation units, hydraulic systems, air compressors and gearboxes. On-line monitoring for critical fluids can be strategically deployed to provide early failure diagnosis, supporting accurate engineering decisions to improve reliability and cost savings.

On-line Oil Cleanliness Technology