EQUIPMENT
FEATURE
EQUIPMENT
Lubrication equipment for a profitable
and professional workshop
i. Automotive:
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motorbikes, bicycles,
cars, trucks
industrial vehicles
service stations,
tyre service stations
Quick lube centre
Fleet maintenance: Cars, buses, trucks,
military vehicles, trains and trans ships
ii. Industrial :
• General machinery maintenance and
manufacturing process
• Assembling
• machine
• stamping,
• metallurgy
• chemical
• General manufacturing
The Control of fluid usage and accurate fluid
dispensing are priorities for a profitable workshop. Statistically, 10% of the lubricants used in
a workshop are not charged to a customer but
is lost as spillage.
Waste oil is an environmental and health
hazard. The use of appropriate equipment
eliminates spills and splashes and the risk of
waste oil to skin contact.
Disadvantages of manual dispensing
of lubricants
By Lucy Wanjohi
Lucy Wanjohi
is a business
development
manager at
Amity Equipment
LTD. Amity is
the authorized
distributor of
Samoa lubrication
equipments in
the country. She
can be reached at
lucie.wanjohi@
amitykenya.com
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eatness in an oil change workshop is an
indication of professionalism and also
a safeguard against accidents caused by
oil spills. When oil is dispensed from
the conventional 5L and 4L containers,
spillages and generation of waste plastic
containers will result. A professional workshop must
therefore address these issues in the most cost effective
manner. This is easily achieved by use of oil dispensing
equipments.
All sectors of industry, both service and
manufacturing require lubrication in form of oils or
grease. Some of the typical applications are:
In a busy workshop, manual operations have
been found to have the following disadvantages:
1. Manual operations is
inconveniencing and costs Money:
• Every time Oil is taken out from the barrel ,
some spillage occurs
• When the oil is being measured some quantity will invariably be spilled.
• When the oil is poured into the vehicle,
some will get spilled
• It is impossible to have accurate measurement all the time when using manual
measuring devices hence revenues will be
lost over time.
On average, if a workshop uses 10 barrels of
lubricants per month the spillage per month is
estimated to be about 63 litres.
Lubezine Magazine | July-September 2012