Oil Analysis: The baseline for all condition monitoring
Oil analysis is the foundation of effective condition monitoring and pro-active machinery maintenance. Because your business relies on the smooth operation of machinery, implementing a professional oil analysis program is essential for reducing downtime, improving equipment reliability and controlling maintenance costs.
At Clean Oil Services, we provide comprehensive oil analysis services designed to help businesses monitor machine health, optimise lubrication performance and identify contamination issues before they lead to costly failures. Accurate oil sample analysis provides valuable insight into:
- Machine wear rates
- Lubricant condition
- Contamination levels
- Oil performance
- Maintenance requirements
This information allows businesses to improve maintenance planning, extend lubricant life and maximise machinery performance.
To ensure reliable results, we supply high-quality oil analysis kits designed to assist with clean, uncontaminated oil sampling.
Oil Analysis Programs and Condition Monitoring
The condition of your lubricant is of key importance. Oil Analysis should never be performed as an occasional or reactive process. A structured oil analysis and condition monitoring program provides the data needed to make informed maintenance and lubrication decisions.
Oil Analysis Program – Turn Oil Analysis into a Maintenance Decision Tool
Oil analysis provides the information needed to understand lubricant condition, identify contamination and wear, and determine when corrective action is required.
Clean Oil Services works with your maintenance team to establish meaningful operating limits for each machine and use oil analysis results to guide practical maintenance decisions. Every machine is assessed individually based on:
- Operating conditions
- Equipment role
- Lubrication requirements
- Performance objectives
- Maintenance budgets
Because every operation is different, each oil analysis report is tailored to the specific machine compartment and application.
What your oil analysis program delivers:
Protect equipment
Identify wear and contamination before they develop into more serious reliability problems.
Extend lubricant life
Make oil-change decisions based on actual lubricant condition rather than fixed time intervals.
Improve maintenance decisions
Use laboratory results, machine history and expert interpretation of lubrication to determine when action is required.
Reduce operating costs
Reduce unnecessary oil changes, contamination-related problems, wear and avoidable downtime.
Why Choose Clean Oil Services for Oil Analysis?
At Clean Oil Services, we work as part of your maintenance team by providing expert recommendations, fast reporting and ongoing support — to improve equipment reliability and machine health.
35+ years of practical lubrication experience
Founded on more than 35 years of experience in oil analysis, lubrication and oil cleaning, Clean Oil Services takes a condition-improvement approach to lubrication management.
We don’t simply report test results. We help maintenance teams understand what is happening inside the machine, why it is happening and what can be done about it. Services are supported by advanced testing technology and rapid reporting: 48-hour turnaround on oil samples.
Recommendations may include: continued monitoring, improved contamination control, oil cleaning, further investigation or oil replacement—depending on the condition of the lubricant and machine.
Our Typical Oil Analysis Services include:
- Microscopic wear debris analysis – see why Microscopic Analysis is important
- Particle count and particle sizing
- Wear mode identification
- ICP spectrographic analysis (PPM) of 14 elements
- Wear metal analysis
- Contaminant analysis
- Oil additive monitoring
- Water contamination testing
- Diesel dilution analysis
- Viscosity measurement
- Full electronic reporting with recommendations
TAN and TBN testing are also available as additional services.
Advanced Oil Analysis Methods
Our oil condition monitoring program uses advanced testing and microscopic analysis to identify contamination, wear patterns and lubricant performance issues. Microscopic analysis allows us to identify:
- Wear particle types
- Particle size and count
- Contamination sources
- Internal component wear patterns
- Oil degradation issues
By analysing wear debris and contamination, we can determine whether the correct lubricant is being used for the application and provide photographic records for future comparison and trend monitoring. We also use ICP Spectrometer technology to identify particle compositions and detect wear metals, contaminants and oil additive levels. Additional testing includes:
- Viscosity testing
- Water contamination analysis
- Diesel dilution testing
- Engine oil analysis
- TAN and TBN testing
For engine oil analysis, diesel testing can detect unburnt fuel entering the lubricant. Where extended oil drain intervals are being used, Total Base Number (TBN) testing becomes particularly important for monitoring lubricant condition.
Oil Analysis Kits and Additional Testing Services
We supply Oil Analysis kits in various sizes to suit different applications and maintenance programs.
Additional testing services include:
Grease analysis:
- Microscopic wear debris analysis
- Acid digestion spectrographic analysis
- Wear metal analysis by weight percentage
Other analysis services available include:
- Transformer oil testing including dissolved gas analysis and oil condition.
- Diesel condition testing includes calorific value, density, wax point and contamination levels.
- Bunker fuel oil testing including pH, contamination, flash point and heavy metals.
Advanced laboratory technology provides the data. Our experience turns that data into practical maintenance decisions.
Contact Clean Oil Services today to discuss professional oil analysis services for your machinery, engines and lubrication systems.