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There’s more to keeping heavy equipment running smoothly than regular maintenance alone. It starts with understanding what’s happening inside your machines — and Martin Equipment’s expert service team can help you take a look.
As equipment technology advances with electronic controls, telecommunications, machine monitoring and diagnostics, fluid sampling (including oil) provides on-board confirmation of what other diagnostic systems may detect and can reveal underlying issues your machine may be developing. In fact, oil sampling is considered the best preventive cost avoidance measure you should be utilizing for your equipment.
Machines need checkups, too.
Some heavy equipment owners tend to only perform oil or fluid sampling as a part of a root cause analysis after a component fails. Instead, you could use the information routine sampling provides to avoid costly downtime and prevent small problems from becoming larger ones. Monitoring trends related to your fluids combined with other tests and factors will help you keep a pulse on the health of your machines.
And you don’t need to be a technician to read and understand the results. Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) provide parameters and control limits for each element tested, as well as a summary of recommendations. Should you have any additional questions, our expert technicians in our service department are always on standby to help.
Protecting your investment.
Fluid sampling is not just an important preventive tool; it’s also a requirement. OEMs require fluid sampling every 500 hours to maintain warranty or extended warranty coverage.
At Martin Equipment, fluid sampling is included with every Martin Max and Martin Care maintenance agreement. This way, you can maximize your investment and ensure your equipment is always running at full speed.
Oil and fluid sampling benefits include:
- Establishing a baseline. When purchasing a new machine, establishing a fluid condition baseline will enable you to maintain a good fluid sample trend. At Martin Equipment, fluid samples are taken from each machine when they arrive from the factory.
- Confirming that the appropriate fluids have been placed in the correct locations. At Martin, we’ll provide you with copies of all analysis reports purchased from us, so you’ll have additional insights into your machines.
- Preventing small concerns from becoming large problems. We’ve got your back. Critical readings from fluid samples allow your dealer and OEM to assess component and machine health before they lead to larger issues, unplanned downtime or failure. Critical readings on any of your fluid samples are flagged in our technical support system for our review, and we’ll follow up with you should anything require your attention.
- Reducing unplanned downtime. In our industry, downtime is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be dire. By taking a proactive approach to machine health, you can keep jobs on track by planning for maintenance and repairs. This also helps ensure our technicians will have access to the parts and technical support they need from the OEM before your machine hits the bay.
Legendary support when you need it most.
Across our nine locations, our factory-trained technicians are ready to help keep you running. Want to learn more about fluid and oil sampling? Contact our team today.