Lubrication Management

Lubricants

Poor lubrication accounts for over 36% of premature bearing failures

SKF lubricants are designed for your needs and tested for performance in real applications. Our experience with bearings, lubricants and applications helps us to offer the right lubricants for your applications and improve your overall lubrication scheme. Testing and validating each production batch is our way to offer excellent lubricant quality around the globe. Specialized lubricant tests and continuous research in the field of lubrication allows SKF to further optimize our knowledge and support you with right lubrication for your machines.

SKF lubricants offer major advantages:

Designed and tested to perform under real conditions
Global availability with consistent quality

Better lubricant selection with specific test results included in lubricant specifications
Strict quality control of every production batch helps ensure reliable performance

Lubricators

Automatic lubricators are installed on single lubrication points and automatically dispense the proper amount of lubricant to the application. Especially when lubrication points are difficult to access for safety reasons or their location in the plant, automatic lubricators can offer the solution. A wide range of single point automatic lubricators and accessories offers a solution for most lubrication points. Utilizing automatic lubricators helps to improve worker safety, maintenance efficiency and machine reliability.

Benefits of automatic lubricators

Increase worker safety for lubrication of difficult to access lubrication points
Support maintenance efficiency with automated lubricant supply

Improve machine reliability with optimized lubricant supply
Select the right lubricators type and lubricant for your needs from a wide portfolio

Manual Lubrication Tools

The right lubrication is essential for machine performance and reliable operation

The right lubricant has to be supplied in the right quantity at the right time in the right quality to the right location. Particularly contamination during the transfer process, applying too much or too little lubricant and using the wrong lubricant for a lubrication point are common problems and can easily be prevented. The SKF manual lubrication tools are specifically designed and selected to support these processes with a wide product portfolio for lubricant storage, handling, dosing, labelling, analyzing and applying lubricants.

Benefits of manual lubrication tools

Avoid mistakes during manual lubrication with tools that are designed to support the “right” lubrication
Select the best products for your needs from a wide product portfolio for storage, handling, dosing, labelling, analyzing and applying lubricants