The role of sustainable oil maintenance on lubrication system reliability

This article discusses the value of sustainable oil maintenance by using submicron high-tech offline filtration based on oil condition monitoring to reduce wear particles and improve system reliability. These activities incorporate broader goals of establishing a proactive maintenance approach, defined as continuous monitoring and controlling of the root causes of machine failure. Among these causes, contamination is the industry's most severe, popular, and most recognized failure cause. In order to ensure all necessary proactive maintenance activities, this paper uses practical analysis for oil contamination monitoring based on ISO 4405. The author applied a 0.1-micron high-tech offline filtration for lubrication systems of ball mills in the Sungun copper mine as an oil maintenance activity to control the system lubrication contamination as a root cause of failures.