One of our top customer in the Philippines who is our partner since 2013, appreciates that we are helping them to achieve food safety through our solutions and services. Most of their lubrication points were already converted to our ISO 21469 NSF H1 Food Grade Lubricants especially in their production area.
Last year, we introduced them to KlüberEfficiencySupport. We informed them that we could start optimizing some of their lubrication points, knowing that with optimization, they could get a lot of value from it, for instance cost savings and less maintenance efforts. One of their plants have been using Klüber Summit HySyn FG 100 in all their 13 units of vacuum pumps. However, during the conversion, they did not alter the frequency of oil change at every 6 months. We advised them that we could extend the oil change interval by double (or even triple) with our Food Grade oil.
When the 6th month came, the customer decided to push the oil change interval to a year. It meant that they did not replace all the associated spare parts during the oil change. And at the end of that one year, we performed an oil analysis and found the oil to be in good condition and can be used further. Thus, that brought about a savings of Php 1,5 Million for the customer so far, and possibly more if we could still push the oil change interval for an additional 6 months or a year.
Our customer is happy that they are using our certified Food Grade Lubricant and at the same time, they are enjoying the financial savings. We are now in the process of looking into other applications to optimize their lubrication processes.
Written by:
Tyrone Malalad, KLSEA
