Have you heard your family doctor or a friend or family member who has had health issues tell you to get a yearly:

Cholesterol screening (prevent stroke or heart attack)?

Blood work done (to prevent diabetes)?

For men a prostate exam (to catch cancer early)?

If you're like most of us, this advice goes in one ear and out the other and we're talking about our health, our bodies and our quality of living.

That makes it even more challenging for many operators to spend the time with Rice to discover the financial and operational benefits that a well-practiced oil analysis and interpetation program can have on the life-blood of their business health, their equipment.

We often hear from operators that oil analysis is too expensive. We often hear from operators that oil analysis reports are written in "Greek." Or there's too much information for them to easily and quickly figure out whats the really important data. 

Rice's MyOilAnalysis program can address these issues. Using disciplined processes, experts and web-based technologies in programs called MyOilAnalysis and MyReliability, fleets, construction firms and manufacturing plants are decreasing unscheduled downtime, maintenance and repair costs making the investment in time and money for the oil analysis and interpreatation services a very attractive ROI.

     

Stories

A large consumer products manufacturer had particle counts for their servo valves running off the charts. And the inline filtration filters on their plastic injection molding presses could not keep up with the contamination. They were experiencing significant servo valve losses. Oil analysis and interpretation provided by one of Rice's industrial lubrication experts recommended off-line filtration which brought the particle counts down to ISO cleanliness codes for servo valves. Up-time reliability increased as the particle counts went down. Operating costs decreased with fewer failures and the adoption of oil analysis as an on-going best practice.

A large municipality was experiencing expensive downtime and increasing maintenance costs of their Elgin street sweepers. They were unaware what was going on inside their equipment because they were not performing regular oil analysis. Rice's industrial lubrication expert recommended oil analysis which highlighted high particle counts and followed this up with the implementation of off-line filtration which brought down particle counts. Up-time reliability increased and operating costs decreased.

A rock quarry customer had a transmission in his 988 loader with "chattering" issues. It was still under warranty. He was on an oil analysis program that caught a defective clutch pack. This saved a catastrophic failure which would have put the machine down. Bottom-line: The cost of losing the equipment for a couple of days (and thereby increasing the cost per ton) versus the cost of the simple oil analysis and interpretation was like the cost of a cholesterol test versus the pain and suffering of a heart attack.