1. You will learn:
   1. New and practical ways to reach lubricant target cleanliness levels
   2. When flushing is necessary and when step-by-step procedures for risk-free flushing
   3. Three types of filters you need to get rid of now
   4. Tips for filtering problematic high viscosity lubricants, maximizing filter life and reducing filtration costs
2. Who should attend:
   1. All Maintenance Professionals
   2. Maintenance & Engineering Managers
   3. Maintenance coordinators & engineers
   4. Reliability engineers
   5. Lubrication & Maintenance Technicians
3. What is included:
   1. Course book that corresponds to instructor's power point presentation
   2. Interactive session with film showing
   3. Lunch and coffee breaks during the day
   4. One (1) issue of Machinery Lubrication magazine
   5. Credit voucher worth $179; applicable to future public courses or onsite trainings
4. Outline:
   1. How contamination control affects machine reliability
   2. How lubricants are formulated to resist or control contaminants
   3. Air, Heat, Particle, Moisture contamination
   4. Controlling soft contaminants
   5. Fuel, Glycol and Soot contamination
   6. The lubricant as a contaminant
   7. Controlling contaminant ingression
   8. How lubricant application methods cause or control contamination
   9. Contaminant removal
   10. Flushing strategies
   11. Contamination control case studies
5. This course may be taught in combination with other CRE courses during the same week, or in conjunction with consulting services to minimize travel and living expenses

Outline of Comprehensive Contamination Control Program (CCCP):

1. How contamination control affects machine reliability
   1. Building reliability thru contamination control
   2. How contaminants attack base oil, additives, machine surfaces
   3. Proactive maintenance in 3 steps
   4. Financial beliefs of a top-drawer contamination control program
2. How lubricants are formulated to resist or control contaminants
   1. Oil oxidation and the role of contamination
   2. Contamination based lubricant selection strategies
3. Air, Heat, Particle, Moisture contamination
   1. When is hot oil good
   2. How to set operating temperature limits
   3. How particle influence oil oxidation
   4. How to use ISO solid contaminant code
   5. How to set target cleanliness and dryness levels
   6. Air and tank design issues
   7. When is foam a problem
   8. Causes and how to control it
   9. Monitoring strategies
4. Controlling soft contaminants
   1. What are they and where do they come from
   2. Harm caused by them and strategies to take them out
5. Fuel, Glycol and Soot contamination
   1. Destructive potential of each of them
   2. Sources and strategies to neutralize them
   3. a.Effect of new EGR engines on oil
6. The lubricant as a contaminant
   1. Incompatibility and the consequences of mixing lubricants
   2. How to detect mixed lubricant
   3. Ways to mitigate the risk of lubricant mixing
7. Controlling contaminant ingression
   1. Cleanliness of new lubricant
   2. Controlling lubricant during storage, handling
   3. Neutralizing ingress into machines thru breathers
8. How lubricant application methods cause or control contamination
   1. Which application methods most effectively control contaminant ingression
   2. How to use a grease gun to reduce ingression
   3. How to introduce make-up oil to reduce ingression
9. Filtration and Contaminant removal
   1. Filter types and location options
   2. Offline filtration and its unique benefits
   3. Beta ratio, dirt holding capacity and when are they important
   4. Strategies for using filter carts
   5. Particle removal strategies and particle counters
   6. Water removal strategies and centrifuges
10. Flushing strategies
    1. What conditions require flushing
    2. Selecting the correct flushing strategy
11. Contamination control case studies