Engine testing can be time consuming and expensive due to fuel usage, support requirements and labor. Therefore, oil samples are taken to check for abnormal wear so that testing may be curtailed if abnormal wear is occurring.

Machine condition monitoring using oil analysis is a predictive maintenance solution for industrial environments. An oil analysis program allows for reduction in unexpected failures and costly downtime for manufacturing components

Oil analysis laboratories and oil suppliers and distributors offer analysis services to their customers. Our instruments are used extensively by these groups to analyze new and used lubrication oil.

Machine condition monitoring based on oil analysis has become an important, if not mandatory, maintenance practice by the marine industry. An effective oil analysis program will keep important assets such as engines, gearboxes, hydraulic systems, turbines, compressors, generators

Oil analysis has long been practiced for aircraft engines and other airborne oil-wetted systems such as hydraulic systems and gear boxes in helicopters. Military organizations are perhaps the number one users of oil analysis testing and commercial aviation also has a long history of oil analysis.