When is the right time to change your hydraulic oil?_header image
When is the right time to change your hydraulic oil?_header image
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When is the right time to change your hydraulic oil?

With TRUCONNECT Premium+ your hydraulic oil will last at least 3 times more. When are you changing yours?

Do you really know the status of the hydraulic oil before you are changing it? Industry standards recommend emptying and refilling the tank after 4.000 working hours. 

But what if the oil conditions are still good enough to run for some other hundreds or thousands of hours? That would grant significant savings in time and money, as well as less waste and harm to the environment. Thanks to sensors installed with the TRUCONNECT Premium+ package, it is possible to calculate the remaining lifetime of the hydraulic oil and therefore change it only when is really needed.

 

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Discover the parameters and effects
  • Oil contamination (particles presence and water saturation level)
  • Oil temperature
  • Remaining useful lifetime of the hydraulic oil

yourKONECRANES.com uses color-coded KPIs with a traffic light system. You can determine at a glance whether the oil can still be used (green), observation is required (orange) or it needs to be replaced (red).

 

What does this mean?

  • If indicators stay green, you can still use the same oil
  • Service intervals can be extended
  • Oil costs are reduced
  • Less time and resources to dispose of waste oil
  • Lower overall environmental impact 

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What's the real benefit?

 

For a global group of energy and petrochemical companies as well, the solution to maintain good machine health and maximize the productivity of your equipment - hence running more efficient operations - lies in intelligent oil condition monitoring. 

Hydraulic oil is a costly resource and harmful to the environment, so changing it only when needed can dramatically reduce maintenance costs and ultimately increase uptime, benefits that grow with the size of your fleet.