Bearing Grease Replenishment: On-Condition or Time-Based?

Maintaining plant assets in an optimal state of lubrication is a topic receiving lots of attention.

Maintenance and Reliability practitioners dedicate teams to the task but not every organization achieves world-class results. As much as 80% of all bearing failures are attributed to poor lubrication practices including:

Using the wrong lubricant

Lubricant deterioration

Lack of lubricant

Too much lubricant

Contamination

Mixing grease types

Using sealed bearings but still providing a grease nipple access point on the motor (whoops!)

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