FUCHS Smart Services: A Customized Approach to Lubrication Management

A FUCHS Smart Services visit or consultation is the best way for our engineers to understand your operations and current lubrication practices. At this phase we ask questions like:

• What lubricants are you currently using?
• Where are these lubricants being used?
• How are these lubricants being applied?
• How often is your lubricant being changed out?
• What problems are you experiencing?

Answers to these questions, paired with digital monitoring solutions and performance data, enable our experts to identify problems and areas for improvement. We also conduct a risk analysis and data analysis to review trends in performance. At this point, we start considering questions that will guide us in developing a comprehensive lubrication strategy for your plant. Questions like:

• Where can products be consolidated?
• What products or processes need to be modified?
• Where can waste be reduced?
• Is additional training required?

Being thorough at the beginning phases ensures that we develop a comprehensive plan for your plant.

After we have assessed and analyzed your current lubrication practices and understand what can be improved upon, our team of lubrication experts will get to work. We develop a written, actionable lubrication plan that outlines the best solutions for your needs. Depending on your individual challenges and goals, your solution might be an individual product, services (such as training or maintenance), a digital solution, or a complete combined package with all offerings. No two plans are the same as no two customers are the same.  

Once we have prepared your plant with the tools it needs for success, rest assured that FUCHS will not leave you high and dry. Fluid handling and process management are key in optimizing performance and keeping a safe working environment. The FUCHS Smart Services team can implement a turn-key lubrication program outlined in the Development phase, freeing up your resources, and ensuring you get the results you expect from lubrication processes. This can include performing fluid analysis and monitoring, equipment maintenance, order and stock management, waste management, and more, all focused on reducing your Total Cost of Ownership.

FUCHS Smart Services values continuous improvement. We are constantly reviewing your performance data and optimizing our solutions where possible to ensure that you are maximizing the potential of your lubrication solutions and your operations to improve your TCO. Part of our optimization process also means doing our part to help customers operate more sustainably by constantly evaluating areas to reduce waste through technology solutions that maximum the life cycle of your lubrication applications.

FUCHS Smart Services is about you. It is about delivering solutions that meet your needs in a way that reduces your total cost of ownership. We move your world – not just to keep things running at all times, but by improving your whole production process, through our integration, transparency and performance. So, what can we move for you? Learn more about the different solutions FUCHS Smart Services has to offer.