Friday, November 30, 2012

Tips To Choosing Which Viscosity Test Can Help Aid Your Work Crews In Keeping Your Machinery Running Optimally

By Marife T. Hamby


There may be other means of diagnosing your machinery, however experts agree that oil analysis must be a chief component of any engineering team, and it is critical to have on site a good oil viscosity, so that your proper analysis can happen right away. In fact, it can often give you in a few minutes accurate information, that will let you know exactly what is going on beneath the surface in your machines complex moving parts.

A good oil testing lab will have many things in common, and it can be calibrated to meet the specific needs of your company. The newest devices are easy to use, made of hardy materials, compact, portable, simple to transport, very safe, cost effective, and extremely accurate.

The second thing to determine when considering which type of viscosity testing to choose is where it is going to be ultimately used, who is going to be administering these, and under what conditions. Many petroleum power plants, for instance, are in hard to reach locations that will be difficult to get too, and a place like that is going to need a self-contained test that is not going to rely on outside laboratory diagnostic equipment: everything that it needs should be available right there.

Also, some field equipment needs to be more rugged than standard research grade equipment because of the environment that it is going to be used in, and in this case the viscosity test needs to be made of the sturdiest materials, and also be designed to handle being outside for prolonged periods of time. This will make it much more expensive, but with that extra expense comes the reliability of great diagnostic devices that will always work, when you need them to work the most, rain or shine they will always do what you need them to do every single day.

Lastly, you are going to want to ask yourself who will be using this lab the most, will it be scientists, specialists, or work crews, while this may seem not to matter much, each group has its own set of needs and each have been trained to use equipment differently, so make sure you are taking into account who will be using the equipment not just the equipment itself.




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