Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

In order to lubricate a bearing correctly that follows standard operating specifications, the fundamental condition is to compute and determine the greasing volume, re-greasing interval and suitable grease specifications with the bearing model, operating speed, and environmental conditions. (You can also compare the conditions indicated in the original manufacturer maintenance manual or the nameplate on the mechanical equipment)

The R&D team of Easylube^® has been in the field of practical bearing lubrication and maintenance for more than 20 years. We have innovated and developed an industrial leading professional lubrication operation standard computation software (MQL calculation) by building on top of professional tribology theories and artificial intelligence. This free computation software is added to

• Easylube^® Total Patrol Management System (TPMS)
• Easylube^® smart inspection management software (Guardwatch^®)
• Easylube^® digital monitoring and management software (Skymonitor^®)

Even an inexperienced technician can simply follow its smart information guidance and enjoy the modern technology of Industry 4.0 intelligent management.

Methods to optimize lubrication operations

To implement the lubrication operation standards of the bearings, the use of manual grease guns, air pressure or electrical tools for grease injection are common maintenance methods. However, it is difficult for personnel without professional training to control the greasing volume and the pressure of grease injection. It is even more difficult to determine whether the grease is smoothly injected into the bearings or not.

Especially in the case of harsh working conditions, bad working environment, severe dust pollution, and considering of the safety of labor operations, the grease injection and maintenance operations can only be carried out during downtime. This will not be able to meet the needs of lubrication maintenance operations. Therefore, it will make mechanical failures or equipment shutdowns completely unpredictable.

Easylube^® Smart Management Automatic Lubricator

Easylube^® smart management automatic lubricator is equipped with RFID wireless sensor tag as the management mechanism of "on-site inspection". Inspectors can use smartphones or personal digital assistant (PDA) to use wireless sensor or search up the device serial number to get the information of the current lubrication work of the lubricator instantly. This will help to avoid the problems of work mishaps, accidental omissions of inspections, or incomplete paper records, and to 100% implement preventive maintenance work.

Back end monitoring management support (Monitoring Program)

Even though the bearing has been equipped with an automatic lubricator, it still cannot meet the trust and reliability requirements of preventive lubrication maintenance operations without back end monitoring and management.

Easylube^® users enjoy free technical support for remote monitoring and management, including：

• Easylube^® Total Patrol Management System (TPMS)
• Easylube^® smart inspection management software (Guardwatch^®)
• Easylube^® digital monitoring and management software (Skymonitor^®)
• Easylube^® remote smart data connected management software (Easylube^® LINK)

Even inexperienced technicians can enjoy the modern technology of Industry 4.0 smart management. It can help you establish lubrication standard operation procedure (SOP), simplify operation management, construct maintenance history reports, solve future maintenance labor issues in the factory, and reduce the cost of labor safety.

Easylube^® Total Patrol Management System (TPMS)

Before entering the Industry 4.0 smart management era, there were divergent opinions on bearing lubrication and maintenance methods. Equipment manufacturers, bearing manufacturers, motor repairers, or lubricant sales companies all had different positions to explain different maintenance problems or abnormal conditions. Even the maintenance engineers in the factory will have different operation methods, results, and changes under the same conditions due to their personal knowledge, experience and arguments.

Due to many factors of instability, in order to achieve certain quality management goals, each factory began to formulate standard operating procedures (SOP) or implement the international standardized quality management system (ISO9001) to assure quality, which became the factory's quality assurance certification and management mechanism, but it is still human oriented.

Today's artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, and the Industry 4.0 smart management has begun to change people's thinking and work patterns. It has become much easier no matter the application, operation requirements or management level. Digital information changes people, regardless of experience, professionalism level, or familiarity with the work, anyone can follow the guidelines and immediately complete the work smoothly. Once the instability factors are eliminated, a task's working methods and results under the same data conditions can be executed sequentially and the same operation goal can be completed stably and reliably.

Easylube^® Total Patrol Management System (TPMS) was created to help you simplify lubrication and maintenance work. With its assistance, even if the lubrication management personnel does not have experience, he can perform lubrication work and routine inspection duties easily and correctly and can remotely monitor the lubrication status of each bearing. He can also grasp whether the inspection duties are actually performed and implement the work objectives of preventive maintenance.

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TPMS System Requirements