OSA4 MicroLab &

TruckCheck Introduction
SPECTRO SCIENTIFIC INC.

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About Spectro Scientific
 Founded in 1980s

 Headquarter in Chelmsford, MA, USA

 Privately owned by SFW Capital Partners

 Acquired Emerson CSI oil analysis business in 2012

 Acquired Wilks Enterprise in 2013

 Acquired LNF from Lockheed Martin in 2013

 Acquired On-Site Analysis Enterprise in 2014

 Ownership of over 30 patents – issued, pending, or exclusively licensed

 30,000 square ft. facility housing R&D, manufacturing, sales, marketing and G&A functions

 ISO 9001:2008 certified

 70+ international representatives for sales and service in over 100 countries

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 OSA4 MicroLab & TruckCheck Overview
 Complete oil analysis including oil degradation, wear and
contamination enables significant savings on
– Cost of lubricant by extending oil change intervals

– Cost of major repair by identifying catastrophic failures early

 Fully automated testing and cleaning reduce labor and skill

requirements
 Embedded Expert System with diagnostics and maintenance
recommendations enables immediate maintenance actions
 Typical throughput ~3000 samples/year/8 hour shift
 >1000 installed in the field, > 1M samples per year
 ASTM D7416 Compliance
 Unique and patented design
– On-site analyzer, Patent No. D358105, 5537336, 5517427, 6452179

– Optical Emission System Patent No. 6455850

– Dual Temperature Viscometer, Patent No. 7237431

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OSA4 Applications

Mining

Truck Fleet Marine Fleet Genset

Municipality
Oil/Gas
Fleet

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OSA4 Main Features

Integrated
hardware
modules
Corporate asset Automated
management measurement
with online data and cleaning
reporting

Onboard diagnostics
and remote hardware Embedded Expert
support System

Comprehensive
oil analysis
report

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Integrated Hardware Modules

OES – Kinematic
Infrared – Oil Particle
Elemental Viscosity
Condition Counter
Analysis 40C & 100C

OS4 MicroLab – Engine, Power Train, Gear, Hydraulics

OS4 TruckCheck – Engine, Power Train

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OES Module- Elemental Analysis

High Voltage Source Optical System

Upper Electrode

Master
Optical Fiber
Slave
Lower Electrode Lens

Oil Sample

• MicroLab – 20 elements including wear, contamination and additives

• TruckCheck – 10 elements (wear only) by default, upgradable to 20 elements

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 OES Element Specs
Element Low Range (PPM) Accuracy (PPM) High Range (PPM) Accuracy (PPM)
Fe 6-1000 ±6 or 8% 1000-3000 ±20%
Cr 8-100 ±8 NA NA
Pb 6-150 ±6 NA NA • Wear metal elements trend
Cu 5-500 ±5 500-1000 ±20% upward over time
Sn 6-100 ±6 NA NA • Fe, Cr, Pb, Cu, Sn, Al, Ni,
Al 5-100 ±5 NA NA
Ti, Mn, V, Ba
• Additive elements trend
Ni 5-100 ±5 NA NA
downward as additives being
Mo 10-1000 ±10 or 10% NA NA
used up
Ti 8-100 ±8 NA NA • Mo, B, Mg, Ca, P, Zn, K
Mn 5-100 ±5 NA NA • Contamination elements trend
V 7-100 ±7 NA NA upward in general, but can have
Si 5-150 ±5 150-3000 ±15% sharp increase due to broken
B 5-100 ±5 100-1000 ±15%
seals or gaskets
• Si, Na
Mg 5-100 ±5 100-3000 ±20%
Ca 25-500 ±25 500-9000 ±20%
Ba 25-150 ±25 150-2000 ±20%
P 100-600 ±40 600-4000 ±20%
Zn 8-100 ±8 100-4000 ±20%
Na 10-1000 ±10 or 10% NA NA
K 10-1000 ±10 1000-4000 ±25%

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 Dual Temperature Viscometer

 Kinematic viscosity analysis subsystem

contains two sets of viscosity testing pool.
Timings of draining each pool are used to
detect oil kinematic viscosities at 40C and
100C.
 Temperature accuracy: 1C
 40C Viscosity：
 10-680cSt with over pressure kit
 ±2% accuracy
Oil Sample
 100C Viscosity： Heater

 2-50cSt
 ±3% accuracy Thermal Diode

 Automatic calculation of viscosity index (VI) Flow Sensor

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IR Module– Oil Condition
IR Filter Wheel

Motor

Oil
Detector

IR Source
Reference Detector

• 15 Infrared filters total

• Key parameters – TBN, Oxidation, Nitration, Glycol contamination, Soot,
Dissolved Water

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Oil Parameters from IR Test

Parameter Range Accuracy • TBN - Total Base Number,

measure of alkaline reserves in oil
Soot % 0-4 0.2 • Oxidation, Nitration – represent
oil degradation process due to
Oxidation
(abs/cm)
0-50 3.3 chemical reaction of oil with air at
high temperature
Nitration
0-30 1.6 • Soot – nanometer size hard
(abs/cm)
carbon particles as combustion by
Water (w%) 0-2 0.2 product
• Glycol – contamination from
Glycol (w%) 0-2 0.3 coolant leak
• Water – moisture in oil, or
TBN(mgKOH/g) 0.3-18 3.1 contamination from coolant leak

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Laser Particle Counter (MicroLab)

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Particle Counter Specs
 ISO Code Reporting Range ISO Code
Min Max
particles/ml particles/ml
25 160000 320000
– ISO Code 7-25 24 80000 160000
23 40000 80000
 Coded contamination level: 22 20000 40000
21 10000 20000
– Default ISO 4406 20
19
5000
2500
10000
5000
18 1300 2500
– NAS 1638 17 640 1300
16 320 640
 Calibration 15 160 320
14 80 160
13 40 80
– ISO 11171 12 20 40
11 10 20
 Repeatability/Reproducibility 10 5 10
9 2.5 5
– +/- 2 ISO Code 8
7
1.3
0.6
2.5
1.3

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Fully Automated Operation
• 10 to 20 minutes per sample
depending on number of tests
Sample (Screen) Filter
selected and viscosity
• Typical throughput – 3000
samples/year/8-hour shift

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 Simple User Interface

Simple interface for non-experienced users On-screen prompt for next step actions
such as receptionists

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 Benefits of Full Automation
 Significantly reduce labor and skill
requirement, no need to hire new
staff
– Save cost on labor and continuous
training
– Tests frequently are done by
administrative staffs such as
receptionists
 Minimize human error, maximize
productivity
– Test results are more
reproducible with minimal
human intervention

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 Embedded Expert System
Sample • Application specific rules
Information • On Road Truck
Rule • Off Road (Mining)
Sampling Point Database • Automobile
• Marine
• Commercial Genset
Equipment Type, • Industrial plants
Running Hour • Military vehicles
Results Rule • Field tested and proven
Database Engine (>1000 systems, >1M
Lubricant Hours
samples/year)
• Rules and recommendations
Maintenance were developed and are
Record Reports and continuously updated by a
Recommendations team with average over 20
Measurement on screen or years of field experience
results printed

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Benefits of Embedded Expert System
 No need to hire an tribology expert
– Lack of in-house tribology expert is one of
the biggest challenges implementing on
site oil analysis

 20 minutes turn around time from oil

sampling to recommendation
– Decisions can be made when and where
they are needed
– Every oil sample report can contribute to a
maintenance decision
• Normal oil samples (70%): Extend oil drain

• Abnormal or severe oil samples (30%):

close monitoring or repair

• Suspicious oil samples: resample and retest

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Comprehensive Oil Analysis Report
 OSA4 oil analysis report includes
– Customer information

– Asset information

– Asset operation and oil change history

– Oil Information

– Oil Degradation

– Contamination

– Wear metal concentration

– Diagnostics and Recommendations

– Color code abnormal and severe

conditions

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Example Report - Bearing Wear
Trending

These series of reports indicate

progressive bearing wear. In the real
world, bearing wear is almost always
caused by other detectable failures,
such as dirt or coolant present in the oil.
Over extending an oil drain interval or
overheating the engine can also lead to
bearing failure.

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Benefits of Comprehensive Report
 Confidence of maintenance action
by understanding the complete
picture of
– Oil degradation
– Contamination
– Machinery wear
 Productivity gain by tracking all
critical information on single report
– Trending of measurement results
over time
– Equipment operating condition
– Diagnostics and recommendation
history

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OSA4 Hardware Support

Hardware
status
indicators

Embedded
hardware
maintenance
& diagnostics

Remote diagnostic and

support through
internet Designed for speedy support
for remote locations

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Benefits of OSA4 Onboard
Diagnostics and Remote Support
 Automatic reminder of routine
maintenance reduces operator
errors and improves instrument
uptime
 Onboard hardware diagnostics
simplifies diagnosing and
troubleshooting hardware modules
 Built-in remote support module
enables internet based
troubleshooting
– Reduces the cost of travel and
expense of trained service engineer
– Improve the speed of support
– Simplify software upgrade and
installation

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 Corporate Asset Management
Site 1

Central
Database

Site 2

Site 3

If no public internet is allowed for data reporting

(corporate network only), SpectroTrack LIMS
software is recommended instead of LubeTrak
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 Online Reporting Capability
• Email “Alerts” when or Critical test results are found.
• Trending to uncover poor maintenance practices and graph any unit or component
condition.
• Generate management reports of equipment and sample summary.

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Benefits of Corporate Data
Management
 Synchronized asset oil analysis history across multiple locations
– Optimized for assets moving from one location to another
– Real time with fast corporate network
– Scheduled time (e.g., midnight everyday) with slow network
 Centralized asset condition based on oil analysis results
– Corporate asset dashboard
– Multiple asset condition displays with one display per site
 Streamline communication between headquarter and remote site
operation, maximize the benefit of oil analysis for the company

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 Summary

 OSA4 MicroLab and TruckCheck are

the most advanced comprehensive
automated oil analysis instruments
available on the market
 The integrated hardware modules, full
automation, embedded expert system,
on board maintenance and
diagnostics, and remote support
capability make OSA4 also the lowest
cost of ownership on site oil analysis
lab on the market
 The on-line reporting enables large
corporate with multiple locations to
effectively implement and monitor the
effective of oil analysis program for
reliability management

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