Webinar Description:
Root cause failure analyses frequently finds wrecked gears and bearings fail without warning due to severe sliding and fatigue. These sudden unpredicted failures disrupt production, divert critical resources, cause production losses, and very costly.
These abnormal wear mechanisms destroy functionality of load bearing rotating components over time and in stages: benign, severe, advanced, catastrophic. During the benign stage, wear particles are small (5 microns) and mostly surface metal oxide, not metal. During the three abnormal stages, large particles from base metal are progressively removed from component parts.
Oil analysis measuring PPM for large wear metal debris supports early detection, identification, and severity determination essential for planned repairs during planned downtime. MiniLab and FieldLab systems, with total ferrous measurement or X-ray fluorescence multi-element PPM, are capable of measuring abnormal wear particles from microns to millimeter size ranges.

About the Presenters:
Ray is a reliability consultant and inventor named on patents associated with machine condition monitoring with oil, infrared, and vibration analysis. Ray received his BS Degree from West Point and MS degree from the University of Tennessee. His professional certifications have included Professional Engineer (PE), Certified Lubrication Specialist (CLS), Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) and US Army Engineer (LTC).

Daniel Walsh is currently the Director, Technical Sales Support/Commercial Product Strategy for AMETEK Spectro Scientific.  Mr. Walsh is responsible for providing global oil analysis solutions for customers in the industrial, fleet and laboratory markets.  Daniel has worked at Spectro Scientific in Sales, Application Engineering and Product Leader roles since 2010. Prior to this, he worked at BTS (Bently Nevada, as Technical Director and General Manager of the oil and fuel analysis laboratory.  He began his career as a Metallurgical Test Engineer at Pratt & Whitney.  He has presented numerous papers at leading industry conferences including Lubmat, EPRI, Noria, STLE and Pittcon, and he has patents in ferrous wear debris detection in industrial fluids.  Mr. Walsh has a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Limerick and an MSc in Engineering Management from Tufts University.  He also is a  STLE Certified Lubrication Specialist.