Hot oil, hotter machine, unscheduled downtime on the way

A plastic injection blow mold customer had a machine going into alarm and shutting down. He couldn't make his widgets and didn't know why all the alarms were going off. We took a oil sample, had it analyzed, interpreted the results (he thought the oil analysis was "Greek") and suggested he recycle his hydraulic oil through in-line filtration, swap out his filters and the problem went away. No more alarms and a lot more widgets. Based on this experience, he started an in-line filtration program on all his other plastic injection blow mold machions. He saw his plant and equipment reliability go up, his alarms go silent and his unscheduled downtime and forced outgaes decrease. In the past would have simply dumped the oil, had it hauled offsite and purchased more oil. By recycling, he eliminated all of this. He has become another believer that "it pays to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink."