Fluid / Oil Analysis
An effectively executed fluid analysis program eliminates the guesswork, risk and reactionary nature of your maintenance strategy.
An established fluid analysis program should be part of any company strategy that drives performance and business success. When companies transition from preventive maintenance to predictive maintenance, they realise greater impact, uptime and savings.
Gathering information about the fluids that help your equipment perform is critical, but the data alone isn’t enough. At AVT Reliability BV (formerly Van Geffen Reliability) our fluid/oil analysis programs deliver unprecedented levels of quality, from our testing procedures through to the recommendations for remedial action. All our partner global laboratories are ISO 17025 accredited ensuring that the best quality data is collected and reviewed by the best data analysts in the industry, working to provide insightful, specific, actionable information, fast.
Our Solution
Depending on the exact application, fluid/oil analysis has many advantages and through regular testing, you can:
Enhance equipment life and reliability
By ensuring proper lubrication/coolant and detecting issues such as excessive wear and contamination
Extend lubricant/coolant life
By monitoring its condition and, when deemed necessary, treating or cleaning it, typically allowing for longer intervals between fluid changes
Reduce equipment downtime
By spotting and correcting potential lubrication problems before they become serious issues
Offering
We offer a number fluid analysis testing groups:
Lubrication Oil Analysis
Imagine being able to see the damage happening to your equipment from extremely minute wear particles and debris, oil analysis is, whether or not in combination with other measurement and inspection techniques such as vibration measurements, both a condition based and preventive maintenance tool that uncovers fixable problems before they become catastrophic failures, it means less unscheduled downtime and increased equipment reliability, productivity and profitability.
Oil analysis with AVT Reliability can resolve:
- Incorrect Lubricant Use/Selection
- Over Extended Oil Drains
- Component Fatigue
- Sliding Wear
- Abrasive Wear
- External Contamination
- Poor Handling/Sampling Practices
- Inadequate Contamination Control
Implementing an oil analysis program is the first step to improving your maintenance and reliability program. By keeping a close eye on the lubrication of your machinery, you can gain an accurate view of how your equipment is performing and if anything is not quite right. Minute particles or contamination can be identified provide a valuable insight into the future of your equipment, especially when the results of oil analyses are correlated with the results of a vibration measurement.
In almost all cases, oil analyses, especially of gearboxes and sleeve/journal bearing machinery , are part of a condition monitoring program or as an extension during trouble shooting.
Oil analysis services is a key component of precision-based predictive maintenance and our oil analysis procedures are broken into three key areas of diagnostics:
- Oil Properties
- Contaminants
- Debris
Coolant Analysis
Coolant is often an area that is missed but it is an essential part of equipment health and reliability. When testing coolants we are looking at making improvement in four primary areas;
- Improved Fluid Condition
Results indicate if the coolant can continue to be used or if it needs to be drained and replenished therefore offering cost savings and environmental sustainability.
- Reduced Component Failure
Analysis indicates when an engine or cooling system failure has occurred and such failures can include a blown head gasket, a corroded ground, or a blocked coolant line.
- Scheduled Repairs
Recommendations can help you proactively take action on impending failures by noting abnormalities and trends in the coolant system.
- Increased Lifecycle Management
Longevity and reliability across the lifetime of the equipment.
Coolant analysis has repeatedly proven to be the key to success in troubleshooting combustion engines.
Fuel Testing
Whether fuel is used to move vehicles or for power, contamination and poor quality will prevent it from working effectively.
Fuel analysis can identify the cause of many issues such as fuel filter plugging, smoking, loss of power, poor injector performance, malfunctioning throttle position sensors, sticking valves and more. Testing will also tell you your diesel fuel’s sulfur content, biodiesel content and compliance with manufacturer specifications and standards for cleanliness that could affect equipment warranty requirements.
By combining the different measurement and inspection techniques, such as fuel testing and coolant analysis, an overall image of the asset is created.
