CORE®

Philadelphia Gear's CORE system virtually eliminates ferrous metal contamination as a cause of lubrication related failures in gearboxes.

With more than a century of gear design and manufacturing behind us, Philadelphia Gear understands how lubricant contamination can negatively impact the operation of your critical rotating equipment. This is why we are proud to announce the arrival of a breakthrough technology that, quite simply, makes this problem a thing of the past.

The solution is CORE – Continuous Oil Rescue Equipment

We both face the same challenges: How do we increase operating efficiency while eliminating unplanned downtime? How do we extend the life of our equipment? How do we postpone the wear out phase of the infamous bathtub curve? Part of the answer to that question lies in the degree to which gearbox lubricants are kept free of ferrous metal contamination. That's where the Philadelphia Gear CORE System comes in.

Here's why: the smallest particle that can be seen by the human eye is 40 microns. But ferrous metal particles much smaller than this can cause extraordinary amounts of damage to rotating equipment over time. That is why upgrading your existing filtration system to include CORE is so important. CORE can remove particles as small as one micron or, put another way, particles as small as one millionth of a meter.

Machine casualties (often referred to as machine infant mortality) tend to occur during the break-in period of operation on the typical bathtub curve. After that the machine settles into its normal operation mode and tends to run well as long as it gets adequate levels of preventive maintenance. Then, at some point in time, the machine inevitably enters its wear out phase.

In many applications an interesting phenomenon has been taking place through all of this time. Ferrous metal wear particles have been floating through the lubrication system and taking a gradual toll on rotating elements within the gearbox. Bearings, gears, pinions, etc., are all susceptible to varying degrees of damage over the life-cycle of the equipment due to this type of ferrous metal contamination.

The CORE system is designed to trap these particles from the moment the filter is installed and oil begins to pass through it and, by doing so, CORE can literally move the wear out line further along the bathtub curve and extend the amount of time that the gearbox will run in normal operation.