How to Maintain a Good Work Status of the Gearbox?

When a machine or a gearbox occurred the failure, which has a good work condition in usual, you may be possible to check the state of lubrication oil. We know that lubrication is essential to the mechanical parts like gearboxes, a bad state such as too low of oil level or lose its ability to lubricate, will lead to the eventually fail.

If the gearbox parts such as gearbox shift forks or gearbox shift blocks fail to work, there may be much potential cost of failure. For a failed gearbox on a specific mechanical drive at the plant, you can do an analysis of the cost of the repair, lost production opportunity and lost labor costs. A failed gearbox costs more in lost production in addition to repair or replacement costs.

The simple and effective way of preventive maintenance for gearboxes is regularly checking the oil levels and replenishing lost oil. Oil analysis is able to reveal whether the oil in a gearbox has lost its ability to lubricate. Besides, it can also detect any metal particles in the oil.

In order to accurately check whether the gearboxes are in a good status, you also need to learn the load on each piece of equipment. One thing you should do is that checking each gearbox when it is running at a 40 % or more of its usual mechanical load.

Other elements that should also be considered if the gearbox fails to work. Except for the inadequate lubrication, there are still many other sources including the faulty bearings, misalignment, imbalance, and misuse, etc.