The unit price of high-quality lubricants (are usually synthetic) produced by prestigious big Manufacturer is few times, even few tens times of common lubricant. However, as all we know that lubricants are very important to equipment logevity and performance, the cost of equipment, machine failers and maintenance is usually considerable more than the price of lubricant. Therefore, to calculate the real cost of lubrication, we should not just look at unit price of lubricant. Direct cost of lubricant is small if you compare to equipment cost, or to total maintemance cost, or to total production cost.

Advantage of using high-quality lubricants:

+ Improve equipment reliability, efficiency, and save energy for operation

+ Extend machine's life

+ Reducing downtime for maintenance, for re-lubrication

+ Lower maintenance cost

+ Production reliability

+ Using high-quality lubricants reduces lubricant consumption, extends re-lubrication interval, durable service life resulting reduce cost of buying lubricant.

Infact, cost of maintenance, re-lubrication or replacing lubricant does not come from cost of lubricant mostly. There are many hidden cost and risks that must be considered and should take into account such as: cost due to downtime, cost related purchasing activities, manpower, storage cost, cost for waste lubricant disposal, risk of equipment, machine failures during carrying maintenance, replacing lubricant work,...

In conclusion, we should consider using high-quality lubricants because it is real cost saving option, should not select the cheaper one simply. Besides high economic efficiency, using high quality, durable, long lasting lubricant reduces amount waste lubricant, it is better for our environment.

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