How reliable is the equipment in your factory, mill, or other plant? How much unplanned downtime does each machine experience over the course of a year? Are your lubricants and lubrication program adequately protecting your valuable assets from undue wear and unnecessary failures?

Most industrial equipment failures can be traced back to improper maintenance, and the majority of maintenance failures are attributable to issues with equipment lubrication. Running a piece of industrial equipment for even a second or two without proper lubrication will lead, at best, to unneeded wear. At worst, it can lead to destruction of the equipment.

With such a strong correlation between proper lubrication and equipment longevity, shouldn’t you be using the best quality lubricants possible to protect your machinery from early replacement? At Walthall Oil Company, our asset reliability experts recommend industry-leading Mobil industrial lubricants to maximize your plant’s asset reliability.

In this article, we’re examining a few reasons why industrial operations worldwide choose Mobil lubricants for their industrial lubrication programs.

Mobil Offers a Full Range of Industrial Lubricants

Unless you’re that rare company that literally only does one thing, you probably have several different types of equipment on your facility floor. Some of them will require heavy grease for bearings, and some will require lightweight oil to lubricate pistons and cylinder walls. Some of your equipment may require special synthetic or plant-based lubricants, while others will need traditional petroleum-based lubricants.

No matter what types of lubricants your plant’s assets require, Mobil has compatible oils, greases, and other products in its industrial lubricant lineup. If you partner with a full-service asset reliability consultant who specializes in working with Mobil lubricants, they can even help you consolidate your lubricant products to minimize the number of products you have to keep on hand and simplify your back-office processes.

Mobil’s lubricant lines include:

• Mobilube™ gear oils
• Nuto™ and Univis™ series hydraulic oils
• Mobilgrease™ moly and non-moly greases
• Mobil Centaur™ greases
• Mobil SHC™ synthetic lubricants

Mobil Lubricants Offer Lasting Protection

No matter what types of lubricants you use on your industrial machinery, they will eventually begin to break down and need to be replaced. Even so-called “grease-for-life” applications usually need to be re-packed after ten years or so.

The frequency with which you have to drain oils and remove greases to replace them is directly correlated to how much your asset reliability program costs. Every time you have to service a machine’s lubricants, you don’t only have to figure in the cost of the new lubricants; you also have to factor in:

• The loss in productivity created by taking the machine offline for maintenance
• The staff time involved in draining, cleaning, or otherwise clearing out the old lubricants
• The staff time involved in replacing the lubricants and testing the machinery

By switching to longer-lasting Mobil lubricants, you’ll not only see fewer breakdowns and repairs but also longer service intervals. The longer your lubricants last, the less money you’ll spend keeping your machinery properly maintained.

Mobil Lubricants Increase Efficiency

The countless lubricant products on the market today all have one specific purpose: to reduce friction. Friction is the enemy of efficiency. In industrial machinery, friction converts useful motion into wasted heat that radiates uselessly into the atmosphere—directly turning your energy expenditures into thermal losses you can never recover.

When you’re turning less of your precious energy into heat and more of it into productive work, that’s the literal definition of improved efficiency. Mobil’s newest Polyrex synthetic lubricants are even some of the world’s first electric-motor lubricants to come with a laboratory-backed energy efficiency claim. And machines that run more efficiently run longer.

Mobil SHC Synthetic Lubricants Offer Max Performance

For equipment that operates under severe conditions, synthetic lubricants are the smart choice. Synthetic lubricants provide additional protection for equipment that is subject to:

• Extreme temperatures
• Abnormally heavy loads or high pressures
• Frequent stop-and-start motion
• Contamination from external or internal sources

In many of these types of use cases, traditional petroleum-based lubricants can’t withstand the conditions long enough to make them viable options. In others, conventional mineral lubricants can work but will require considerably more frequent replacement than a comparable synthetic.

Mobil’s SHC synthetic industrial lubricants provide the durability and flexibility of synthetics, along with:

• Tolerance of high temperatures
• Resistance to oxidation and breakdown
• Excellent low-temperature flow properties

Mobil Lubricants (From Walthall) Come With Expertise Mixed In

Choosing to partner with Walthall Oil Company for your industrial lubrication products means that you don’t just get reliable lubricants from the industry leader, Mobil, you also get the expertise and experience of an asset reliability team with more than 100 years of collective experience helping industrial customers keep their machinery running smoothly.

In addition to convenient delivery of quality industrial lubricants, Walthall offers a full range of industrial services as part of WARS—Walthall Asset Reliability Services. From building out a functional, money-saving lube room to creating a custom lubrication training program for your team, the WARS team knows asset reliability and Mobil’s product offerings inside and out.

Need a New or Improved Asset Reliability Program? Let WARS Help!

The Walthall Asset Reliability Services (WARS) team is ready to be your full-service reliability partner. From asset reliability consulting and staff lubricant program training to equipment specification, pre-commissioning, and other project-based services, we offer our customers personalized services that keep their precious machinery working in top form. Give us a call today to find out how WARS can work for you! (478) 781-1234

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