Premature bearing failure can be caused by inadequate or incorrect lubrication, contamination, over-greasing, misalignment, improper installation and other operating conditions. The supplied LPR material cites industry studies indicating that only around 10% of bearings reach their design life and identifies lubrication and contamination among the leading causes. LPR can investigate failure causes, review lubrication routes and contamination controls, and recommend corrective actions including installation and maintenance training where required.  Book a bearing failure root-cause investigation.

Equipment should be prioritised using a criticality matrix that considers production impact, safety consequence, replacement cost and lubrication-related failure history.

This allows maintenance teams to focus limited resources on the assets that have the greatest impact on downtime and operating cost.

In mining and heavy industry, this may typically include:

• Haul-truck hydraulics
• Mill and crusher bearings
• Gearboxes
• Compressors
• Critical pump sets

LPR can work with your engineering and maintenance teams to build a criticality matrix, identify the highest-risk assets and apply targeted interventions such as precision lubrication, upgraded filtration, condition monitoring or automatic lubrication.

→ Assess and rank your critical equipment.