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Space, The Final Frontier
Nixhackathon
Because unexpected downtime due to a bearing failure is so costly and disruptive, knowing the condition of the unseen grease inside the bearing is critical. And because the grease cannot be visually inspected while inside the bearing, Maintenance Managers and their lubrication technicians must depend on other means of verifying the state of the working grease.
Purpose: Grease colorimetry testing is used to validate observed appearance changes in grease Darkening due to aging or overheating The concentration of certain particulate contaminants, such as iron content, coal dust, or other solids accumulating in the grease.
Development Process: Used Nix Colorimeter to process Grease sample colors Exported data to CSV File, Which was read by the Java Application Created Grease Quality Standards to compare to the data processed by the Nix Compared Delta Values between sets to find closest color match Displayed Color Outputs through a JavaFX GUI
