Winter 2020

Contents:

• Check-up – Breathe new life into your workplace
• Typical limit values for the analysis of coolants
• Technology focus: Gas chromatographs, the finest detection noses in the OELCHECK laboratory
  • How gas chromatography works
  • Gas chromatographs in use
• Antioxidants – Elixirs of life for modern lubricants
  OELCHECK checks oxidation with the RULER test and IR spectroscopy
• OELCHECK Inside:
  • Communication and enjoyment in the new OELCHECK cafeteria
  • OELCHECK customer survey 2020 – how to take part
• Q&A: The shear viscosity of lubricating greases

Summer 2020

Contents:

• Check-up – OELCHECK is systemically relevant for maintenance
• OELCHECK Inside:
  App with new features – OELCHECK 4.0
  Data security – Awareness of digital risks
  Impressive visit to a paper factory
  OELCHECK is involved in innovative funding projects
  For the health of our employees
  Moving into the new OELCHECK building at the end of 2020
• OELCHECK Partner Forum:
  TEDOM SCHNELL combined heat and power plants – More value from energy
   
• Technology Focus: Alternative fuels – Types and their characteristics
• Q&A:  Lubricants with a changed base oil – Effects

Winter 2019

Contents:

• Check-up – OELCHECK active in social networks
• New analysis set for paper machines
• Topping out ceremony for the largest OELCHECK building project to date
• OELCHECK keeps growing – also globally
• Employee event at Schliersbergalm
• Technology focus: E-mobiles – Lubrication and cooling while electrified
  • How an electric vehicle works
  • Lubricants and coolants reinvented
  • OELCHECK challenged
• Q&A: Can samples from other countries be examined by OELCHECK in Germany?

Summer 2019

Contents:

• Check-up – long-term employment instead of job hopping
• Mandatory programme – Transformer oil analyses
• REM-EDX – Composition determination of larger particles
• Technology focus: Hydraulic fluids – clean is not pure
  • Purity classes and contamination degree
  • Filters and sensors
  • OELCHECK laboratory analyses for maximum security
• OELCHECK Inside:
  • Exclusive agents in Russia and Taiwan
  • OELCHECK laboratory upgrade
  • New Head of Internal Sales – Driving force of success: Further education

Spring 2019

Contents:

• Check-up – USPs: Unique selling points with benefits for the customer
• AN Acid Number – changing the standard creates confusion
• bauma – test out the new OELCHECK-App
• OELCHECK Inside
  • First-class occupational health care
  • One step ahead with continuous training
• No cure without an integrated approach – guest article
• Technology Focus: New! Non-ferrous metal inhibitor content (NFMIC)
  • Early detection of corrosive non-ferrous metal wear
  • Rapid and accurate with HPLC
• Q&A: Clean sample bottles and purity classes

Winter 2018

Contents:

• Check-up – OELCHECK, a dream company
• E-mobility – Our expertise is in demand
• OELCHECK – Our all-inclusive analysis kits are now also available in Russia
• China – Oil analyses for Anheuser-Busch InBev
• A new building is on the way
• New laboratory equipment at work – the FT-IR spectrometer
• Technology Focus: Analysing lubricating greases
  • – OELCHECK all-inclusive analysis kits for lubricating greases
  • – Lubricating greases: their structure and function
  • – Sampling made easy
• Q&A: What is a refractive index, exactly?

Summer 2018

Contents:

• Check-up – OELCHECK drones take to the skies
• Reinforcements – New Scientific Team Assistants join our lab team
• Exemplary – Workplace health promotion at OELCHECK
• For the whole family – A team event in the mountains of Bavaria
• Technology Focus: Hydraulic fluids
  • Problematic mixtures
  • Compatibility among hydraulic fluids
  • Compatibility analyses in the lab
• Question time: How safe are my data with OELCHECK?

Spring 2018

Contents:

• OELCHECK continues to expand – Reinforcements for our team

• OELCHECK team event – A trip to the frozen north

• Technology Focus I: Engine oils for vehicles
  - From reducing exhaust emissions to the e-drive – Current trends at a glance
  - A range of new duties for oil analysis

• Technology Focus II: Coolant analyses detect damage in cooling systems
  - Custom-made analysis kits for examining coolants
  - On the trail of damage in cooling systems

• Q&A: MPC test, a potent weapon in detecting sludge and varnish

Winter 2017

Contents:

• New in the laboratory – Four-ball apparatus for determining wear properties
• OELCHECK Wiki – Single point of contact for all aspects of lubricant analysis
• News from China – Diagnosis and analytics „Made in Germany“
• App launch I – Supporting Vestas with sample data entry in a class of its own
• App launch II – Switch to the OELCHECK-App
• Hot topic: Limit values and their importance
  - How are limit values determined? What role do trends play?
  - Which solutions does OELCHECK offer?
• Q & A: Oxidation values reach their limits when it comes to ester oils

Summer 2017

Contents:

• www.oelcheck.de – A new information centre for lubricant analysis 
• The new QR-Code service for our customers
• New test method for fuels: carbon residue in accordance with DIN EN ISO 10370
• Recertification audit for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 passed once again
• Hot topic: air and foam in oil
  - Increased air content
  - Air release (LAV)
  - Why oils foam – foaming characteristics
  - How to avoid foam
• In demand: zirconium – why does this element pop up in lab reports?

Spring 2017

Contents:

• SEW-EURODRIVE: international cooperation with OELCHECK
• Closeness to customers is the key to success – Our Customer Service & Sales Department is expanding
• News from China – Sinopec optimises service with oil analyses
• Hot topic: OELCHECK analysis kits for coolant and anti-freeze agents
  - The decisive investigative parameters
  - Five new all-inclusive analysis kits
  - The analysis – all aspects in focus
  
• Classic Cars by Tom Fischer
• News for gas engines – a kit that can do it all
• Q&A - lubricating grease analyses, parameters and practical uses

25 Years of OELCHECK

Contents:

• A family company is celebrating its birthday
• Figures, data, facts - OELCHECK at a glance
• Milestones
• A large, international family - The OELCHECK team
• Dream Company OELCHECK
• and much more ...

Spring 2016

Contents:

• Visit us at bauma and other events
• News from China – OELCHECK becomes CMA-certified and CNAS-accredited
• Together unbeatable – Currenta benefits from the oil maintenance service from WESTO and OELCHECK lubricant analyses
• Hot topic: Oil analyses – and how our professionals evaluate them
  - Valuable information – and how customers contribute to success
  - Examining all of the values – a threefold approach
  - The analysis – all aspects in focus
  - From standard procedure to the specifics – the diagnose statement

Winter 2015

Contents:

• The intelligent giants from Konecranes
• OELCHECK innovation – The IR Index sets standards
• Six jokers in the pack – New complete sets for wind turbines
• New in the laboratory – Oxidative stability of lubricating greases
• News from China – MAN Diesel & Turbo PrimeServ
• Hot topic: Higher sustainability and energy efficiency thanks to modern lubricants
  - Sustainability – the potential is still far from being fully realised
  - Higher energy efficiency – just a promise or a reality?
• Success with quality – OELCHECK passes surveillance audits

Spring 2015

Contents:

• Hot topic: The elements of a lubricant check
  - Wear, contaminants or additives
  - Gear and industrial oils and their typical limit values
• New service – free returns of oil samples
• Better safety – for gas engines and chlorine gas compressors
• Less is more – loss of engine oils due to evaporation
• Q&A – Engine oils, oil consumption or oil loss?
• Forming the Future – Schuler leads in forming technology
• News from China – Pirelli, millions of tyres made in China

Winter 2014

Contents:

• LAB.REPORT – Intuitive working with the new customer portal
• The FVA (Forestry test and research institute) visits OELCHECK
• Viva España – the OELCHECK team in Andalucia
• News from China – Travelling by high-speed rail
• Hot topic: The elements of a lubricant check
  - The elements in the OELCHECK laboratory report
  - Wear, impurities or additives
  - Hydraulic oils and their typical limit values

Spring 2014

Contents:

• Hako GmbH: Citymaster, sweeping for more cleanliness
• OELCHECK laboratory technicians achieve LLA certification
  
• Latest test equipment in the OELCHECK laboratory
  
• News from China – Scania extends service life for HGV motor oils
  
• HEW – Gas engines have run for 25 years without damage
  
• Hot topic: New lubricant, improved performance?
  - Decision criteria when changing lubricants
  - Practical procedure when changing oils
  - Special features of lubricating greases
  - Control measures after changing lubricants
  
• Q & A – The time factor when taking samples correctly
  

Winter 2013

Contents:

• Bauer Maschinen revolutionises special foundation engineering
• OELCHECK identifies solid impurities in lubricating greases
• CM Technologies – condition monitoring on the high seas
• Hot topic: The study of filter residues
  - The critical aspects of oil purity and filtering
  - What filter residues reveal – an example from real life
  - Correctly extracting filter specimens
  - Filter residue analyses in the OELCHECK laboratory
  
• LEIPA – a global leader in quality products based on waste paper
• Requested – soot index for oils from petrol engines

Spring 2013

Contents:

• Editorial – OELCHECK takes decisive steps for the years to come
  
• OELCHECK – A strong brand with a new look
  
• New services offered by the OELCHECK laboratory
  
• Lubricants and Condition Monitoring – The Future Trends
  
• Gas engine oils – Latest information on oxidation determination
  
• China – Opening of the OELCHECK laboratory in Guangzhou
  
• Q & A – How can there be high levels of wear metals with normal purity classes?