Industrial machinery

Industrial machinery

Of or pertaining to machines or parts of machines that are used in an industrial setting.

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straight mineral oil

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Petroleum oil containing no additives. Straight mineral oils include such diverse products as low-cost once-through lubricants and thoroughly refined white oils. Most high-quality ...

stoke (St)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Kinematic measurement of a fluid's resistance to flow defined by the ratio of the fluid's dynamic viscosity to its density.

stick-slip motion

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Erratic, noisy motion characteristic of some machine ways, due to the starting friction encountered by a machine part at each end of its back-and-form (reciprocating) movement. ...

steam turbine

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam. The energy is converted into a rotary motion that drives a device.

statistical process control (SPC)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The use of control charts to track and eliminate variables in repetitive manufacturing processes, in order to ensure that the product is of consistent and predictable quality. If ...