Filtakleen USA Manufacturing—220 W. Cottage Ave., Sandy, UT 84070
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Problem: Equipment downtime and heavy expense due to maintenance issues.
Why: Our current maintenance program is failing to catch equipment problems at their root cause.
Analysis: Filtration efforts are not adequately cleaning the lubricants in our equipment. Engines are failing before scheduled rebuilds, even at 250-hour drain intervals and 10,000-mile intervals on our over-the-road trucks. Keeping up with this schedule proved difficult for those involved.
Solution: Move our maintenance program to a 'proactive maintenance and condition based monitoring' solution. Proactive maintenance and condition based monitoring was really misunderstood by our company. This concept determines at the 'root cause' level, why our equipment was failing.
This took on two new 'parameters' in order for us to make any real changes that would impact our bottom line. For us, as with most cost conscious companies, it's all about money and time. Therefore, these parameters must prove themselves with targeted results. Just exactly what are these two new pieces to the puzzle? Simply this:
Design Features—
Special casing for easy replacement.
Powder coated 1-piece aluminum body for total durability.
Machined sealing edges for 100% filtering efficiency.
Universal mounting bracket.
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The only way we could stop equipment failures, was to know what was going on internally first. But we didn't want just any 'new' filter or oil analysis service.
Enter Filtakleen: That's when we decided to call Filtakleen. We had heard of Filtakleen a couple of years ago from a salesman who dropped by. We never really acted on anything at the time. But now, we were really feeling the pain. We were also, way over our maintenance budget. I visited some other websites looking for the right bypass filter, however, when I revisited the Filtakleen site, I knew we were on to something.
This was different. Filtakleens' core solution… the Filtakleen Bypass Filter was just what we were looking for. One-micron filtration, to remove all the harmful particles under 25 microns, that the factory installed full-flow filter was leaving behind to damage our critical components, and the real bonus, which I didn't even think about, was the 100% water removal. We have had water problems before that showed up in prior oil analysis. Now, we could not only clean all the small particles out of the oil… clear down to one micron, but we could also remove 100% of the water from our lubricants at the same time… with the same solution! I became very excited about this product.
We decided to try one of these Filtakleen units on one of our loaders along with the second puzzle piece… timely oil analysis. I stress 'timely' here. We had tried oil analysis before… but we were not totally committed to it. Why? We figured if we drained the oil and changed all filters at the recommended factory intervals, we should be okay. This, for us, proved more expensive, over the long run, than anything else in our entire company.
So with this new, Proactive maintenance approach, we were now going to watch our equipments health, via 'ramped up' oil analysis services that Filtakleen also highly recommended. This would allow us to move to the condition based monitoring side of proactive maintenance.
Still, we were skeptical. So we ordered the first test result only 100 hours after the installation. Based on the lab results, the oil was good, so we didn't drain it. Then we ordered the second test result at 250 hours. We didn't believe what we were seeing. The oils health was still very good. (For the details on this, please read the article submitted to Noria Corporations'… Practicing Oil Analysis Magazine, Issue Number 200109, Practicing Oil Analysis Case Studies, located here.)
From here it just got better. We could finally see light at the end of our tunnel. We continued installing the Filtakleen filters on just about everything we owned, and on other components… hydraulics, transmissions, pickup trucks, etc. We saved our company a bundle of money, not only through extended drain intervals, but also through increased productivity. Management was very happy with our results, and I was so impressed, that I came to work for Filtakleen.
We have installed many units on everything from cars and pickups, to large plant compressors, to some of the world's largest mining operations. Now, we offer the finest fuel combustion catalyst, an automatic lubrication system that takes care of any grease able component, and a fuel/water separator that is second to none. All of our products carry a 100% satisfaction guarantee that we will honor if you're not happy with any of our stuff.
Our product line is saving a major amount of capital resources to bottom lines each and every month, not only some of corporate America's finest companies, but also some of the better known industrial companies on the other side of the globe. The size of your operation doesn't really matter either. I recommend our products to ranchers, fleet drivers, and even my friends and associates, to install on their personal vehicles every single day. I love to hear from our customers all the time about their success stories of using Filtakleen products.
Take a serious look at our products. Tear them apart. Ask questions. Think… like I did, back in my days at Schmid Oilfield Services. If you can save your company, some real money and time, without any real risk, and know daily that your efforts are working… why not contact us today to see if Filtakleen is right for you?
