Can Help Solve or Eliminate Some Costly and Time-Intensive Maintenance Procedures, Conserve our Resources and Preserve Environmental Integrity.

The principles and practices of Applied TRIBOLOGY Technology were set forth and established by Mr. Peter Jost who wrote a landmark study in "1966" of the effect of friction, lubrication and wear on the Gross National Product of Great Britain.

Jost defined TRIBOLOGY as, "the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion, and the practices related thereto."

TRIBOLOGY Affects:

• the design and manufacture of any surface where two surfaces interact.

• the use of materials where solid materials interact.

• the interaction of wear surfaces with lubricants.

• the reduction of friction and wear.

Applied TRIBOLOGY Affects:

• Machine Reliability

• Machine Efficiency

• Machine Maintainability

Jost's Savings from "Improved" Lubrication Practices

• Reduction in energy consumption due to lower friction = 7.5 %

• Savings in lubrication costs = 20 %

• Savings in maintenance repair and replacement costs = 20 %

• Savings in consequential losses due to down time = variable %

• Savings in investment due to higher utilization ratios and machine efficiency = 1 %

• Savings in investment through increased equipment service life = 5 %*

• Savings in manpower = 0.013 %

* = of new expenditure

FOOTNOTE:

As Bill Nye The Science Guy would say, Please Consider The Following:

Starting at an estimated $200 Billion Dollars in "1979", North American vehicle and equipment costs have risen 10 to 15 percent per year. Today maintenance costs over Half-a-Trillion Dollars per year.

With between 60-80 percent of all premature mechanical failures (according to lubrication experts and backed by years of lubrication analysis) related directly to poor lubrication (oil quality and oil filtration) practices.

They go on to say that proper QUALITY (ie. Synthetic Lubrication and Ultra Fine [Down to Less Than 1-Micron] Filtration) can triple the life of mechanical components and the lubricants themselves as well.

By most estimates improved attention to friction and of their gross national product - or in "1995" a whopping 116 Billion Dollars for the United States alone.