What’s the real cost of a single, silent grease point failure?
For mining superintendents, that cost rarely shows up where you would expect it. Grease-related failures are almost entirely avoidable, yet they keep happening, because most monitoring confirms that the pump built pressure, not that grease actually reached the pin. A greasing system can report full operational compliance right up to the moment a critical point runs dry. The failure was developing the whole time. You just couldn’t see it.
Written as a practical guide for the people judged on availability and cost per tonne, this handbook breaks down why heavy mobile equipment keeps failing silently, the five most common single-line injector failure points, and the fundamentals that separate reliable sites from reactive ones. It draws on the maintenance strategies Tier 1 and Tier 2 operations use to maximise asset availability, including a site that prevented $500,000 in A-frame failures in the first week of monitoring.
The pattern is consistent across every site we observed:
The most reliable sites treat lubrication with data, not assumptions.
Key Topics:
- Why traditional autolube systems don’t tell the full story
- Step by step guide on implementing a high impact HME greasing strategy
- How an effecive greasing strategy can deliver rapid ROI