Lubricant standardization: how to reduce items in the storeroom

It is common for a plant to accumulate dozens of different lubricants over the years, many of them equivalent to each other, bought out of inertia or on a one-off recommendation. The result is a bloated storeroom, with the risk of wrong application, capital idle in stock and fragmented purchases that lose negotiating power.

Standardization starts by mapping where each product is used and identifying equivalences, consolidating several items into a smaller portfolio that meets the same requirements. Multipurpose products help: a single fluid that serves the hydraulic system, gears and ways, for example, eliminates three items from stock and reduces the chance of error on the shop floor.

JEFLUB acts as a technical partner in this rationalization, helping to identify equivalences and consolidate the portfolio without losing performance, with multipurpose lines such as Fluid AG. Schedule an assessment and find out how many items can be safely reduced.

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