It was another summit forum after the one on centralized lubrication application and development trend in 2015, and it fell into a main forum, and four sub-forums, i.e., wind power, commercial vehicles, metallurgy, engineering and large machines. The theme of the forum was “Mechanical Lubrication and Equipment Health Management” and “Industrial Cooperation, Innovative Manufacturing, and Global Sharing”, and “Drive for Innovation”, “Industry 4.0”, “Lubrication Economy”, “Belt and Road”, “Centralized Lubrication”, “Made in China 2025”, “TCO”, “Intelligent Public Transport”, “LLC Product Lifecycle Management”, “Intelligent Wind Field”, “Internet+”, “Equipment Health Management”, “Intelligent Port” were discussed. Participants had thorough and detailed communications and discussions on application and development of mechanical lubrication, new technologies of equipment health management, product lifecycle management experience, oil and lubricate inspection and diagnosis of equipment failure, and representatives from each field and company summarized and shared the problems they came across during development and solutions.
Dr Wang Changxin from Yutong Group made a report on Lubrication’s Contribution to Bus Lifecycle Management LLC, and he mentioned that the centralized lubrication system of AUTOL had a great advantage on saving operation costs.
Report by Dr Wang Changxin from Yutong Group
Report by Song Shiji, professor in Department of Automation of Tsinghua University
As for engineering machinery, Austin Adam O’Kelley, director of Machinery Lubrication Magazine (USA), taught some knowledge on lubrication to people present, and analyzed different cases of contaminated lubricates in details, and proposed to improve education on talents and take grease in sample bottles for observation and inspection so as to protect lube. Dr Ma Hongjun from Guangzhou Mechanical Engineering Research Institute described the importance of selecting and optimizing grease in detail.
Report by Austin Adam O’Kelley, director of Machinery Lubrication Magazine (USA)
For metallurgy, Hu Bangxi, deputy general manager of Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Company explained “controls over more than 10 thousand points” for intelligent equipment maintenance management developed by his company, and the intelligent innovation was a new idea for equipment health management.
Report by Hu Bangxi, deputy general manager of Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Company
Mr Reichmann from BECHEM described the inspection on grease flow rate through Beziers flow curve to effectively control the operations of grease in bearings and ensure the effective operation of machines. Li Xianghui, senior consultant to Shell suggested that helping customers pick the exact lube for their needs together with technical service shall be an important measure to improve corporate development.
Report by Li Xianghui, senior consultant to Shell
An important feature of the forum was that participants did not only discuss the related theories, but also lube technologies and equipment health management in the fields of commercial vehicles, wind power, engineering and large machines, and metallurgy. The 4 sub-forums on commercial vehicles, wind power, engineering and large machines, and metallurgy were held in parallel in the morning of 16 August. 7 leaders and experts from Zhengzhou Autol Technology, Lubrication Research Institute of Tianjin Research Institute for Advanced Equipment of Tsinghua University, Beijing Public Transport (Group) Co., Ltd, Michelin Group had detailed communications on lubrication technology and equipment health management for commercial vehicles with more than 100 guests, and thorough discussions on “application of lifecycle management in bus business”.
Commercial Vehicle Sub-forum
In wind power sub-forum, 7 experts and corporate representatives from Shanghai Electric Engineering Co., Ltd and EULIKIND (Beijing) had thorough discussions on fan lubrication ideas and technologies, fan lubrication health management with more than 110 guests present.
Wind Power Sub-forum
In engineering and large machine sub-forum, 5 experts and corporate representatives from Zhengzhou Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University and ADDINOL Lube (China) had thorough communications and discussions on centralized lube system and management for engineering machines, and all of the guests present discussed hot topics on machinery engineering and large machines.
Engineering and Large Machine Sub-forum
In metallurgy sub-forum, 8 academic experts and corporate representatives from Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) and Beijing Metallurgical Equipment Research Design Institute made reports on specific topics, and had communications and discussions with company representatives present.
Metallurgy Sub-forum
Sustainable development was listed as an important strategic target in the 13th Five-Year Plan, and energy resource was lifted to an essential position once again. For lubrication business which made effective application of energy as target, future would be full of opportunities to demonstrate their capabilities, and lube business would benefit the whole world from the point of human development since energy was one of the major problems that hindered people from improving all over the world. “Belt and Road” was an opportunity for China’s lube business to go international. The forum managed to catch the opportunity of the era, and built a great platform for innovation and development of lube business, making development in all fields convenient, and contributed to “Made in China 2025” and “Belt and Road”.
Introduction to centralized lube products by staffs
