COURSE OVERVIEW

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Certified Machine Lubricant Analyst (MLA) Level-III. It covers the fundamentals of lubrication covering lubrication regimes, base oils, API and other base oil classifications and basic lubricant additive functions; the machine wear fundamentals comprising of common machine wear mechanisms and common machine-specific wear modes; the wear debris analysis; the analytical ferrography and atomic emission elemental spectroscopy; the lubricant degradation and oxidative base oil failure; and the thermal failure of base oil, additive depletion or degradation and detecting the wrong lubricant addition.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the oil analysis program development and program management; the machine-specific test slate selection, optimizing frequency analysis, setting alarms; limiting and managing oil analysis information; creating and managing oil analysis procedures and scope oil analysis training for reliability technician, trades people and management; and the cost/benefit analysis for oil analysis and contamination control programs and quality assurance.