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Lubrication and oil monitoring for hydraulics

Lubrication and oil monitoring for hydraulics - Seminar (3 days)

23.09.2025 09:00
25.09.2025 16:30
Brannenburg
On-siteGerman
1,290.00 € plus VAT
23.09.2025 09:00
25.09.2025 16:30
Live video stream
OnlineGerman
1,150.00 € plus VAT
22.09.2026 09:00
24.09.2026 16:30
Brannenburg
On-siteGerman
1,290.00 € plus VAT
22.09.2026 09:00
24.09.2026 16:30
Live video stream
OnlineGerman
1,150.00 € plus VAT
Appointment on request
Location as desired
In-HouseGerman
7,900.00 € plus VAT

Efficient lubrication and precise oil monitoring for maximum plant availability

Hydraulic fluids perform a wide range of tasks in your systems: they transmit forces, lubricate moving parts, cool, protect against corrosion, dampen vibrations and transport contaminants away. In doing so, they are increasingly faced with challenges such as higher pressures and rising operating temperatures.

In our seminar, you will acquire the necessary expertise to ensure the long-term economical and reliable operation of your hydraulic systems. We provide practical guidance on how to select the optimal hydraulic fluid, reduce costs through improved filtration and oil maintenance, and extend oil change intervals. You will also learn how to identify wear and malfunctions at an early stage, analyse the causes of damage and utilise the advantages of oil analysis for proactive maintenance. We use warning values to show you how to reliably assess the condition of oil and machinery.

  • Optimal hydraulic fluid selection for economical operation
  • Extension of oil change intervals
  • Cost reduction through better filtration and oil care
  • Early detection of wear and malfunctions
  • Analysis of causes of damage after failures
  • Taking meaningful oil samples
  • Oil analyses in proactive maintenance
  • Interpretation of lab reports
  • Warning values for assessing machine damage and oil condition
  • Skilled employees and executives working in the field of maintenance
  • Engineers, foremen, fitters and service technicians from component and system manufacturers and their service partners
  • Distribution engineers and sales staff of lubricant producers and their resellers
  • Technical purchasers for lubricants and operating fluids
  • Application engineers working in mobile labs as well as for on-site condition monitoring and fluid management
  • Appraisors and surveyors for damage analysis and machine malfunction
  • Technically interested employees who want to extend their knowledge in the areas lubrication techniques and tribology
Seminar (3 days)

Content

Lubrication, Friction and Wear

  • Lubrication and Formation of lubricating film
  • Hydrodynamic and hydrostatic lubrication
  • Importance of viscosity and temperature
  • Mechanisms of wear and their causes

Basics about lubricants and hydraulic fluids

  • Mineral oils, partially synthetic and synthetic oils in comparison
  • Charactersitics and areas of application of Mineral oils, hydrocrack, PAO, Ester oils and polyglycols, especially in the area of greases
  • Types, active principle and application of lubricants addtives
  • Grease thickener: Soap based and soap-free thickener, characteristic and important applications of particular thickener
  • Special requirements of the food and animal feed industry
  • Environmental relevance of lubricants

Hydraulic fluids

  • Requirements and characteristics
  • Standardisation, oil types and their areas of application
  • Miscibility of hydraulic fluids
  • Compatibility of the standardised oil types with each other

Environmentally friendly hydraulic fluids (bio-oils)

  • Base oils
  • Standards, approvals, specifications, eco-labels
  • Oil transfer concepts
  • Miscibility and compatibility
  • Mixing and foreign oil content

Operational changes to hydraulic fluids

  • Application-specific strain and oil aeging
  • Oil oxidation, hydrolysis and cracking
  • Reduction of antioxidants and other additives
  • Contamination through water, dust and external oils
  • Air content and foam formation
  • Diesel effect and cavitation
  • Visible changes: Turbidity, discolouration, deposits
  • Mixing with unsuitable oil

Filtration and oil care

  • Oil change or oil care
  • Oil cleanliness, life span and reliability
  • Filtertypes: effectiveness and areas of application
  • Removal of soild and liquid sediments
  • Oil care concepts, operational and installation filtration

Oil analyses for hydraulic fluids

  • Oil Analysis
    Why, when, how, how often, how many?
    Methods and devices for sampling
    Required data, grease sampling datasheet
    Online portal: lab report, data entry, enquiries
    Data migration into a maintenance program
  • Analysis techniques
    Analysis sets, areas of application and explanatory power
    Identification of wear characteristic values: element analysis, PQ-Index
    Characteristic values for the oil condition: viscosity, FT-IR analysis, oxidation, NZ, colour number
    Determination of purity classes
    Counting methods: Laser, O.P.A., microscope
    Additive degradation: antioxidants, FT-IR and RULER
    Impurities: Water, particle counting and cleanliness classes, sludge, tramp oils, mixing
    Special features when analysing bio-oils and flame-retardant hydraulic fluids
    Advanced testing methods for hydraulic fluids

Oil analyses to clarify the causes of damage

  • Recognizing the causes of wear and damage
  • Reasons for vibration (noise) or high temperature
  • Reduced power transfer
  • Increased foam formation
  • Turbidity, dark coloration
  • Deposits, sludge formation
  • Shortened filter service life and filter blockages

Evaluation of laboratory results

  • Warning/limit values and trend evaluation
  • Damage analyses: complexity and pattern recognition
  • Detection of ambient conditions
  • Consideration of the application-specific specifications
  • Group work, exercises with uncommented lab reports
  • Dealing with typical external and internal queries

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Seminar price includes:

  • Participation in the seminar
  • Hot lunch
    on all days *
  • Coffee/tea and snacks*
  • Water and juices
  • Detailed seminar documents
  • Certificate of participation
    (*with presence in Brannenburg)

Live-Video-Stream:

  • via Microsoft Teams
  • You will receive the access data
    by email

    you need:
  • PC / Notebook
  • Headphones or speakers
  • optional: camera
  • stable internet connection

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