Abstract:
During the year 2020, several opportunities were observed to define the different areas of action in the lubrication process, such as: grease consumption, excess lubrication, degradation of centralized systems, lack of procedures manpower without the proper knowledge among others. In this way, the lubrication process was subdivided into ten large groups of activity, namely: lubricant specification, lubrication process management, centralized systems, contamination control, lubricant consumption, lubricant sampling, lubricant analysis, receipt/ storage, environment and hibernation process.It were applicated the Tools MASP (Method of analyzing and solving problems) being the first one the “Brainstorming”, drawing on observation made on production of mining plants were applied. Subsequently has been defined and implemented the action plan.
The results obtained after actions were: reduction in oil consumption associated with the recovery of used oil (values), grease consumption at the Ubu plant over the years, compliance with lubrication plans and scheduled activities above 95% , generating high availability of equipment for iron pellet production.