What’s Hot in the ICML eLibrary: Top Titles You’ll Want to Bookmark

Practical Lubrication for Industrial Facilities, 4th Edition

by Kenneth E. Bannister
Copyright 2024
A comprehensive guide for setting up and managing lubrication programs.

With the advent of the ISO 55001 asset management standard, the ICML 55® world lubrication standard, and the rapidly rising interest and professional certification of engineers and maintenance/lubrication practitioners working in the field of mechanized equipment assets, this book provides a one-stop reference manual for individuals, departments and corporations who wish to study and understand practical lubrication knowledge and its real-world applications.

This fully revised fourth edition has been extensively rewritten and updated for better clarity and understanding. The addition of color tables, diagrams, and photographs enhances the text, making it more comprehensive, meaningful, practical, and easier to read.

The book also delivers the basic building blocks necessary to implement a practical and meaningful lubrication management program that meets and exceeds the requirements set out in the aforementioned ISO 55001 and ICML 55 standards.

Boiler Operator’s Handbook, 3rd Edition

by Carl Bozzuto
Copyright 2022
Dive into preventive maintenance and lubrication within steam and heating systems.

Known for its guidance on steam systems, this book also addresses key preventive maintenance practices—including lubrication—that impact performance and uptime in boiler facilities.

It expands upon the previous edition by Kenneth E. Heselton, PE, which introduced water treatment and lubrication as the two principal preventive maintenance activities in a boiler plant. This updated version has been expanded to include a wider range of examples, and to share some of the more recent environmental requirements related to efficiency and sustainability through improved performance and reduced emissions.

ICML 55.0 and ICML 55.2 Standards

by International Council for Machinery Lubrication
Copyright 2023
Eliminate guesswork with a globally standardized blueprint for lubricated asset management.

The ICML 55® Standard defines the structured landscape, requirements, and guidelines for implementing and sustaining optimized lubrication management systems in alignment with ISO 55000. The Overview and Guideline standards in the series have been steady eLibrary draws since their release.

• ICML 55.0 is the entry point to the series, offering a foundational overview of lubrication’s role in asset management. It outlines key principles and terminology, and it establishes ICML 55’s connection to broader corporate reliability goals and to other international standards.
• ICML 55.2 is a practical guideline for implementing the comprehensive requirements introduced in the ICML 55.1 Requirements standard (also found in the eLibrary), which are all grouped according to twelve auditable areas of a sustainable, world-class lubrication management system. The ICML 55.2 Standard expands on these twelve areas and helpfully includes actionable checklists, “how to” examples, and audit-readiness tips—making it both a blueprint for implementation and a study aid for ICML certification candidates.

The Maintenance Partnership Relationship

by Kenneth E. Bannister
Copyright 2024
Explore how cross-functional collaboration enhances asset management initiatives.

This book’s purpose is to discover and review the many relationships that maintenance teams must foster daily to become best in class. Where teams are concerned, there will be many partner relationships that must be navigated and managed to achieve a defined and unified level of success.

To function professionally, a maintenance department must continually establish and manage multiple partnerships with tangible deliverables, thus allowing both partners to state their respective points of view without making assumptions on each other’s behalf. Understanding, measuring, and tracking what we control lets us objectively define how and where the partners must work together to make quality management decisions and deliver on performance mandates at minimum cost. This approach simultaneously enables the resolution of issues that are out of our control, or those that we must simply manage.

Is My Oil No Longer Working?

by Sanya Mathura
Published November, 2024
Learn how to interpret oil analysis data and spot the signs of lubricant breakdown.

This article (originally published in Lubrication Matters Magazine) provides a comprehensive overview of the six primary degradation mechanisms that affect lubricating oils in industrial systems: oxidation, thermal degradation, microdieseling, electrostatic spark discharge, additive depletion, and contamination.

Mathura explains the chemical and mechanical conditions under which each degradation mode occurs, the distinct types of deposits they leave behind, and how to differentiate between them. For each mechanism, Mathura (who holds VIM and VPR certification badges from ICML) offers actionable recommendations to prevent or mitigate damage, including filtration methods, system design considerations, and root cause identification strategies.