Subject: Lubrication Management and The Storeroom

New Article: Lubrication Management and the Storeroom
Issue #190

Hi Friend,

How is lubrication management a spare parts management issue? In my book, Spare Parts Inventory Management, I talk about spare parts management being a ‘team sport’, and nowhere is this better demonstrated than with lubrication management.

Lubrication management is one of the most important aspects of maintenance. Get your lubrication management wrong and almost everything else you do is wasted.

An important issue with lubrication is to use the right lubricant for the right situation. Viscosity, strength, adherence, flash point, and pour point are not just words, they are important factors in lubrication (among others that I am sure a tribologist could help with).

And lubrication management is one area where the storeroom and maintenance really do need to work closely together if the required results are to be achieved.

My latest article explains the relationship between lubrication management and the storeroom.


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Phillip Slater
Founder, SparePartsKnowHow.com

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