High-quality lubricants and adhesives: how to avoid equipment failure

In the industrial environment, understanding the causes of equipment failures is critical to preventing prolonged downtime, high maintenance costs, lack of safety, and business interruption. Understanding, managing, and preventing equipment failure can be a great way to be able to reduce the need for service and achieve supply chain sustainability.

Different types of equipment failures

Different types of equipment failures can occur for example:

• Sudden failure: Occurs when a piece of equipment breaks down without any foresight. of examples of sudden failures can be: shattered tools, broken ribbons or melted wires.
• Gradual failure: Occurs when the efficiency of a piece of equipment decreases steadily. For example, when pipes become clogged by the accumulation of debris or a tape that wears out over time.
• Intermittent failure: This is when a piece of equipment fails, restarts, and then repeats the process until it stops working completely. Examples include automobile engines and conveyor belt production lines.

Lubricants and adhesives: why do equipment failures occur?

Here are the main causes of equipment failure:

• Improper lubricant selection: failure to lubricate or inadequate lubrication account for 43% of mechanical failures, 54% of bearing failures, 50% of roller bearing damage, and 70% of whole equipment failures, respectively. To avoid potential lubrication problems, it is essential that operators have adequate technical knowledge of lubrication.
• Poor manufacturing: in some cases, manufacturers choose to use low-quality adhesives, sealants, coatings, and other critical components that can compromise equipment performance in the medium and long term.
• Inadequate maintenance: “Band-aid” maintenance by untrained personnel can cause damage to equipment. It is important to perform proper maintenance to prevent such problems and to use experienced personnel to make necessary repairs.

Prevent equipment failure with high-quality lubricants and adhesives

Mascherpa supplies adhesives, sealants, industrial lubricants, electronic protectors and protective coatings to manufacturers in every industry, helping companies optimize their production, maintenance, repair and operation processes. From analyzing these processes to specifying a product for a new application, expert technical assistance helps companies increase operational performance, optimize processes, maintenance costs, and bring new innovations to life.

Industrial lubricants reduce friction between moving components and improve their durability. Our top lubrication brands, Molykote, Krytox, Electrolube and Petro-Canada provide high-quality, industry-approved lubricants that can be used to prevent equipment failure in various industries and applications.

Adhesives and seal ants, on the other hand, are ideal for bonding and sealing applications, compared with traditional alternatives. Our adhesive brands Huntsman Araldite, DOWSIL offer solutions suitable for a wide range of applications in all industries. Having the right stock of adhesives and technical support allows for peace of mind in the repair and maintenance processes.

Through the use of adhesives, sealants and lubricants, manufacturers can ensure:

• Increased equipment service life
• Quick repairs and turnaround time
• Minimal operational downtime
• Increased structural strength
• More effective loadmanagement
• Better temperature regulation
• Corrosionresistance
• Moisture and water resistance

Our technical experts have successfully implemented adhesives, sealants and lubricants in many common and very demanding applications.