Overview

Lubrication management and analysis are critical activities for machine reliability improvement, detection and diagnosis of faults, and root cause elimination. It is a vital component of predictive maintenance programs.

Nationally recognised Wood’s LCAT lubrication programs comply with International Standards ISO 18436-1, ISO 18436-3, ISO 18436-4, ISO/IEC 17024 and offer optional certification by the Australian Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (AINDT).

Course Duration:

3 days training plus optional 2 hour certification exam.

Content

• Maintenance and reliability strategies
• Lubricant roles, functions and failure modes
• Lubrication health monitoring & diagnostics
• Contamination measurement and control
• Wear debris monitoring and analysis
• Oil sampling best practice
• Corrective actions
• Alternative technologies
• Maintenance recommendations

Who Should Attend

• Lubrication technicians & personnel
• Facility technicians and operators
• Condition monitoring personnel
• Facility support engineers
• Maintenance personnel
• Reliability personnel

Participants will learn how to:

• Schedule & direct lubrication management
• Schedule & direct lubrication analysis
• Establish procedures for sampling, 
• preparation and transport
• Select appropriate analysis techniques
• Select appropriate sample locations
• Recognise potential contamination
• Ability to liaise with laboratories
• Recognise abnormal data
• Recommend corrective actions
• Maintain & manage a database of analysis
• Perform basic failure mode & criticality analysis