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Lubrication - lubricants and lubrication systems
News Release from: Shell Lubricants | Subject: Shell Lubriplan Professional Plus
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 September 2001
Assessment of lubrication needs produced
savings
Visteon Automotive Systems reckons that Shell Industrial Services saved it around $60,000 in the first year, following assessment by Shell of its lubrication needs three years ago.
Visteon Automotive Systems reckons that Shell Industrial Services saved it around $60,000 in the first year, following assessment by Shell of its lubrication needs three years ago Then belonging to Ford, the engine component division in Belfast produces water pumps, fuel rails and plastics injection mouldings for throttle bodies
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Visteon invited Shell Industrial Services (SIS) to survey the Belfast plant in January 1998 and assess its lubrication needs.
SIS carried out a plant audit and recommended a total lubrication package, which would free up personnel to concentrate on the core operations.
Visteon confirmed a contract with SIS to use Shell Lubriplan Professional Plus to manage its lubrication resources.
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Visteon's product manager, Jack McClure, said that the Belfast plant's system of lubrication management had always been an afterthought.
"Before Shell Lubriplan, we used a manual system which relied on an oiler setting out on a planned maintenance rote, carrying out the lubrication tasks and writing down what had been put into a machine.
This was not an effective system and gave us insufficient control over this important function." Shell Lubriplan software enables users to build and maintain an active database of all lubrication and maintenance task information.
Designed to run on a PC or networked computer in a Microsoft Windows-type environment, it schedules lubrication and maintenance tasks, records feedback and faults, controls stock and inventory management and stores machine records and maintenance history.
The system produces worksheets for each lubricant attendant.
The Professional Plus version offers a bar-coding option.
So each piece of equipment at Visteon's Belfast plant carries a bar-coded label, which read daily by a barcode reader carried by the oiler.
The reader tells the oiler which oils are required, the amount and any other relevant information.
The oiler then keys in what tasks have been completed, is recorded by the reader, and later uploaded onto Shell Lubriplan.
The reader is then re-loaded with the tasks for the following day.
"We are now moving on to labeling all stock with a barcode to achieve tighter control over this area," informed Shell's Site Manager, Al Jackson.
"At present, all stock is signed in and out of the site, but in future this function will be automated." "We used to use a number of different suppliers for our various fluids, but we are now looking to use only Shell products, " says McClure.
"We anticipate that we can save as much as GBP100,000/year with this initiative." Visteon Automotive Systems estimates that Shell Lubriplan Professional Plus saved the company $60,000 (about GBP 42,800) in the first year of implantation. Request a free brochure from Shell Lubricants ...
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