In my primary role with Noria, I travel around the globe designing lubrication programs and conducting failure investigations for some of the world’s largest companies. On average, I’m in a new facility every other week. One recurring theme has been popping up a lot lately at these plants.

I didn’t begin to notice it until I started getting more corporate accounts. The first occurrence was so obvious, it nearly slapped me in the face.

I had been contracted to perform a failure investigation for a company that sounded eerily similar to the one I had just visited. In fact, I thought someone had messed up my schedule because the project was identical to the previous one with the only difference being the plant location. It was the same company, division, equipment, and product being manufactured.

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