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Through Associate Companies R&T can also provide world class Vibration Analysis Monitoring, Metallurgical Analysis, Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis and Root Cause Failure Analysis type services.
R&T specialises in monitoring continuous manufacturing plants where the failure loss of any single plant item could interrupt the manufacturing process causing plant down time.
R&T has been analysing samples from the Manufacturing, Minning and Construction Industry for more than 10 years and over that period customers input has developed a simple oil sampling system with computer free, single glance analysis results providing the customer with a “Root Cause Analysis Diagnosis” on every sample.
When monitoring critical industrial plant & manufacturing equipment R&T’s recommendations are aimed at operating critical machinery as close to “Zero Wear” as possible. By monitoring lubricant samples by microscope all contaminates with potential of causing equipment wear or damaging the lubricant are identified & removed. This action results in very stable machinery operating at low rates of wear with gear lubricants running as clean as hydraulic fluids and lubricant lives extending out 5 years or more plus no significant wear occurring to the equipment being monitored.
Monitoring Plant and Equipment by Wear Debris Analysis
Analysing and identifying wear debris, and locating contamination sources.
When processing lubricant samples, the R&T labs proprietary filter analysis system deposits any significant wear debris along with environmental contaminates upon the analysis slide.
If the application is stress damaging the lubricant, the specialised solvents utilised deposits any gelled lubricant allowing an accurate prediction of remaining lubricant life.
R&T uses spectrographic analysis for selected large engine monitoring work but, with gearbox, transmission and hydraulic samples, Wear Debris Analysis by Microscope will advise significant root cause corrections months before spectrographic analysis can detect any (usually unidentified) abnormalities.
Early abnormal wear corrections usually result in applications returning to a low rate of normal wear with one single oil change or filtering service event where as by the time spectrographic analysis can detected the abnormal wear the damaged cause often requires several oil changes to correct back to a normal wear situation.
R&T has experience in monitoring plants from a wide range of industry types that includes; Sawmills, Plywood Mills, Paper Mills, Plaster Board plants, Fibre Board Plants, Cement Plants, Food Processing Plants, Steel Rod and Roll Steel Process Plants, Rod Mills, Gas Sites, Plastic Extrusion Plants, Plastic Blowmoulding Plants, Ammonia Urea Plants, Landfill and Natural Gas Engine Co-Generation Sites, Fuel Condition Monitoring equipment, Mine Site Equipment and Wind Turbines Drives.
Oil & Air Filter Media Contamination Analysis, Magnetic Plug Debris Analysis.
R&T Laboratory Services include Filter Media contamination analysis. When monitoring large engines working in dusty environments, engine oil filter media analysis will provide early warning of dusting and also allows air filter replacement times to be accurately predicted preventing overloading air filters and subsequent dusting engines. Any time spectrographic analysis indicates abnormalities Oil Filter Media Analysis will root cause the reason. In failure investigations the Oil Filter should be one of the first items to retrieve, bag and label as Oil Filter Media Analysis can provide valuable information on operating conditions before failure and often assists with root causing failures.
Diesel Fuel Filter Media analysis will locate any organic in tank growths occurring and usually identifies the organisms causing the growths.
R&T provides consultancy services for;
On Site Machine Reliability Improvement.
On Site Lube Sample Taking.
Image recording of Machinery Inventories.
On Site Contamination Investigation.
On Site Tutorial for oil sampling and contamination control.
Design of Lubrication Systems & Schedules.
Root Cause Failure Analysis.
No Charge for New Customer Introductory Samples
To assist with evaluating R&T’s Laboratory Services R&T can process a few oil or grease samples from important machinery at no charge to allow a noncommittal appraisal of R&T’s Laboratory services.
R&T understands there are times that our services cannot be utilised and R&T will not persist with any “pressured sale contact” if that situation exists. There is no time limit on the “introductory offer” and often the introductory oil samples not taken up at visit time arrive at the lab 12-18 months later with samples to analyse.