A 10% REDUCTION IN MAINTENANCE COST IS EQUAL TO A 40% INCREASE IN COMPANY REVENUE

Maintenance Reduction to Revenue Increase Comparison
According to major industries throughout the world, it’s time to throw out your old ideas on machine maintenance. The cost-saving trend is toward a maintenance program that targets the root causes of machine wear and failure. Predictive and Preventive methods are out: Proactive Maintenance is in. Why? Because proactive maintenance methods are currently saving industries of all sizes thousands, even millions, of dollars on machine maintenance every year.
According to DuPont, “maintenance is the largest single controllable expenditure in a plant.” In many companies it often exceeds annual net profit."

Studies conducted by a large manufacturer of heavy trucks using sub micron filtration concluded that a filter that can filter under 1 micron results in an 80% reduction on compression rings and a 50% reduction on oil rings.

“Oil filtration and lifter wear “
SAE paper No. 650865
by Pfeifer & Finnigan

When filtering the used oil through a 5 micron filter the wear remained almost unchanged, but the 1 micron filtration significantly reduced the wear rate by 1⁄2 on the oil rings and 1/5 on the compression rings.

“A modern approach to piston ring bore assembly wear determination”
SAE paper No. 650316
by DenBeston, Leverenze & Bloom

“Oil is like any mineral and can not wear out. Oil can become dirty and contaminated but, like copper, iron or silver, when they are reprocessed, they are as good as new. Studies have shown that oil significantly improves lubricating qualities as it is exposed to heat during use in the engine”

"Theory and Practice for Engineers"
2sd edition, pg. 590-591
SAE paper 710813

Maintenance Philosophy & Human Body Metaphor
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