Up Time Magazine- April/May 2008 - (Page 66) upgrade Spotlighting Editor’s picks of hot products & services in the industry. Imagine being able to monitor your machinery for ferrous wear particles anytime and anywhere. Now you can with Analex fdMplus It’s tough, it’s portable, it’s easy and it’s quick. Four qualities you don’t normally associate with oil analysis. But, then again, this is not your normal oil analysis lab. Is it a comprehensive lab? No, but quickly knowing the amount of ferrous wear particles in your oil or grease can save your equipment’s life, especially in remote locations where full analysis is simply not possible. The simplicity is also startling. The Analex fdMplus can accept samples in a number of forms, and you just drop the sample in and about 3-4 seconds later you have a simple readout in parts per million (ppm), with automatic trending. No tribology degree needed. This machine could become your lubrication programs’s next best friend. We tracked down Jack Poley, president of Kittiwake Americas, who has been in the oil analysis industry for over 45 years, to answer a few more questions about this new little dynamo, and how it may help companies to extend the life of their machinery Kittiwake’s new ferrous debris monitor, the ANALEX fdMplus First, why don’t you briefly explain to us what the ANALEX fdMplus actually is? The ANALEX fdMplus is a unique tool for field or lab use. The fdMplus provides accurate and repeatable measurement of total ferrous wear in samples of oil or grease. Samples as small as 2 ml of grease or a 5 ml test tube or syringe of oil, can provide an accurate result in parts per million (ppm). The fdMplus stores the data from each sample in its internal memory. This data can be displayed on board the fdMplus either in graphical format or tabular with easy transfer of data to a host PC via RS232 interface, facilitating trending of the ferrous metals in the oil or grease samples. With the fdMplus, one is not limited to one sample medium. Samples can be analyzed from 50ml bottles, 10ml syringes, 5ml syringe or test tubes to 2ml grease pots! As fast as one can load the media, the fdMplus provides accurate measurement…<15 seconds per sample including a repeat read to verify accuracy of the measurement. For labs that would like to automate the test process, a robotic sample handler is available. Please give us an idea of the types of fluids that companies will be able to check with your ANALEX fdMplus. The beauty of the fdMplus is that it will measure ferrous wear debris in all types of oil – from gearbox lubricants through to hydraulics. And grease is included! The grease sample is placed into a small 5ml pot, placed into a special insert adapter, al- 66 april/may 2008
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