Take a proactive approach to protecting your business. Following a dozen key “best practices” can go a long way to maximizing uptime, protecting your investments, and ensuring your success:
- Perform regular maintenance. By far, preventative maintenance is the cost-effective kind of maintenance.
- Participate in an oil analysis program. Proper analysis can save time and money by extending drain intervals
- Be consistent in your oil sampling methods. Take your samples under the same temperature and operating conditions each time. This will eliminate variables that could skew results.
- Check your coolant level twice per year. Especially in winter months, it’s important to verify your coolant’s freeze point, and the best way to do that is with a refractometer, which effectively measures the coolant’s glycol-to-water ratio.
- Keep your inventory cool, clean, and dry. A dirty, moist environment with fluctuating temperatures will greatly reduce shelf life, since extreme hot or cold temperatures can cause chemical degradation, moisture contamination and performance losses.
- Always use the best quality lubricant available. The cost of proper lubrication is generally far less than the cost of repairs.
- Label inventory and dispensing equipment properly. Accidental contamination of one lubricant with another can seriously damage your equipment.
- Keep your maintenance personnel well trained. Your staff forms a critical line of defense against equipment failure.
- Viscosity matters! Whether its grease, engine oil, or gear lubricant, if your lubricant is too thick, fuel economy goes down and excessive strain is put on your components. If your lubricant is too thin, it will not offer the protection you need. Always use the proper lubricant for the application. Follow your OEM’s recommendations.
- For coolant top-up, using Delo ELC Prediluted 50/50 ensures the proper proportions of glycol and water for optimum heat transfer, freeze protection and overall performance.
- Keep informed. OEM recommendations change as technology advances.