Patent Document ID: 8096164
Application ID: 12321172
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of managing and predicting condition of a lubricant, the method comprising: selecting similar components in a population of diverse equipment requiring lubricant; collecting a sample of a lubricant from at least one of said similar components in said population of diverse equipment requiring lubricant; analyzing said lubricant for a plurality of analytes; selecting critical parameters for said lubricant; creating a condemning limit set for said analytes; correcting a condition approaching or exceeding said condemning limit set; generating a report comprising at least one of a result, a limit, a recommendation or an action item; projecting conditions of said analytes to a time when said conditions will equal said condemning limit across all of said similar components in said population of diverse equipment requiring lubricant; ranking unit equipment risk relative to a parametric condition and said condemning limit.