Machinery Lubrication July August 2008

CERTIFICATION NEWS
ICML Reaps
Benefits of Conference
BY SUZY JAMIESON, ICML
From May 19 through 22, the International Council for
Machinery Lubrication (ICML) participated in Noria’s
very successful Lean, Reliable and Lubed 2008 conference in
Nashville, Tenn. In addition to exhibiting and holding two
certification exam sessions, the council had its annual board
and committee meetings. The ICML Laboratory Lubricant
Analyst committee held an ad-hoc meeting to discuss and
develop work to propose to ISO TC108/SC5/WG4 on the
upcoming standard 18436-5 – Condition Monitoring and
Diagnostics of Machines – Requirements for Qualification
and Assessment of Personnel – Part 5: Lubricant Laboratory
Technician/Analyst.
The findings of this meeting were later shared at the
annual ISO TC/108/SC5/WG4 meeting, which was held in
Kyoto, Japan, the following week. The council was fortunate
for the support and participation of knowledgeable laboratory
representatives from several different companies from
across the globe.
Labs
The laboratories represented included Analysts Inc.,
Caribbean Analytical Services (Trinidad), Caterpillar,
CleanOil, Focus Laboratories (Thailand), Laboratorio Dr.
Lantos (Argentina), MRG Corporation, PdMA, Solge
(South Korea), Staveley Services, Southwest Research
Institute, and Tekniker (Spain). The council would like to
thank these companies for their pioneering vision and
expert mentoring provided.
Recognitions
ICML also presented the Augustus H. Gill Award for
Excellence in Oil Analysis and the John R. Battle Award for
Excellence in Machinery Lubrication. These awards were
created by the council to inspire companies to achieve worldclass
status in their oil analysis and machinery lubrication
programs. The criteria for each of these recognitions serve
as a road map for aspiring companies, which are often
mentored by past recipients.
Gill Award
This year’s recipients of both the Gill and Battle awards
coincidentally came from the state of North Dakota, which
speaks highly of the state for its “best in class” status. The
2007 Gill was awarded to Coal Creek Station in Underwood,
N.D.. Coal Creek is part of Great River Energy company. Kim
Burkeland, Coal Creek’s chemical analysis technician,
accepted the Gill Award on behalf of the station.
Battle Award
The 2007 Battle Award was awarded to Cargill Corn
Milling in Wahpeton, N.D.. Preston Hatfield, plant maintenance
manager, accepted the award on behalf of Wahpeton.
He was accompanied by lubrication specialist and program
lead analyst Clyde Hughes of Allied Reliability and Dorothy
Onchuck, lubrication specialist from UGL Unicco Services.
Receiving the Battle award caps a five-year effort by the
Wahpeton Corn Milling Facility to improve equipment reliability
through improved lubrication practices. The
application for the award outlined the various improvements
the plant has made over the past five years, including but not
limited to:
• Improved storage and handling practices
• Innovative equipment setup to improve overall efficiency
of lubrication tasks
• Utilizing onsite oil analysis to asses equipment health and
target equipment for remediation effort
• Deployment of portable and bypass filtration to improve
overall oil cleanliness and reduce oil consumption
• Development of written procedures to govern the lubrication
program
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