Sometimes we often encounter customers who ask: "Isn't lubrication just injecting lubricating oil/grease into the place that needs to be lubricated? Why do we need to quantify it?"

This issue can be divided into three aspects to discuss, namely cost, efficiency, and environmental protection.

First of all, let's discuss the cost issue. Timely and moderate lubrication can effectively prolong the service life of the machine or product. If the lubrication is insufficient, the service life of the machine or product will be shortened. Enterprises using machinery and equipment will face premature wear and tear of machinery and equipment. The cost of maintenance or scrap increases, and if it is a manufacturing plant that produces products, it may face unnecessary situations such as customer complaints or returns.

And what if over-lubricated? Although the service life of the machine or product will not be shortened, the enterprise must face the increased cost of purchasing lubricating oil. Assuming that the cost of lubricating oil used is low, the impact may not be great. However, when the cost of lubricating oil is expensive or the production of products requires When lubricating oil products to be used for a long time, the cost increase will be very considerable.

Let me illustrate a customer case we encountered:

The amount of lubricating oil required for the production of products in a single production line of a production factory is very small. When the quantitative oil injection system is not used, the amount used on the production line is about one barrel of 18kg of lubricating grease per week. After introducing the quantitative oil injection system and confirming the oil required for qualified products After measuring the actual result is that only one barrel of 18kg lubricating grease needs to be used every 2 weeks, and the cost of a barrel of 18kg lubricating grease is about NTD 2,000, which can actually help customers save half of the cost:

52 weeks in a year * 2,000 / 2 = 52,000

If you only look at the above calculation results, it seems that there is not many cost savings, but the customer has a total of 10 production lines, in fact, the annual cost savings should be 52,000 * 10 = 520,000, that is say, if the quantitative oil injection system is used, can save more than 500,000 costs for the enterprise every year, and the higher the cost of oil products, the more considerable the amount of savings will be.

Let’s discuss the impact of efficiency. It takes time to add lubricating grease to machinery or vehicles. In some cases, it is necessary to add lubricating grease when the machine is stopped or the vehicle is stationary. If you add lubricating oil moderately The time spent is 1, and the time spent on excessively adding lubricating grease maybe 1.1 or 1.2 times more than the time.

Assuming that the workstation for adding lubricating grease to the production line of a factory originally needs 10 seconds to complete the work, and the theoretical daily production capacity of the production line is 2880 (6*60*8=2880), the method is used to measure the actual amount of oil required and After using the quantitative oil injection system, the workstation only needs 8 seconds to complete the work. At this time, the daily production capacity can be increased to 3600 (7.5*60*8=3600), and the efficiency can be increased by 25%. Of course, the above example is a theoretical value, but it is undeniable that moderate lubrication and the use of a quantitative oil injection system will help improve production efficiency.

Finally, let’s discuss environmental issues. Last time we mentioned that timely and moderate lubrication can effectively prolong the service life of machines or products, while excessive lubrication will increase the cost of enterprises, which may also cause additional environmental pollution.

for example:

If the amount of lubrication required by a bearing is 5 grams of grease, when we add more than the upper limit of grease, the excess will overflow to other parts of the machine or vehicle, and when the machine or vehicle is in During operation, the overflowed lubricating grease may scatter or drop to the workplace, causing pollution to the environment.

To sum up, the adoption of a quantitative oil injection system will help to achieve great improvement in cost, efficiency, and environmental protection. Does the above analysis also make you feel excited? Welcome to contact our company, let us find the most suitable improvement plan for you!