The last sentence from “msmith” may seem discouraging to you, but it is absolutely correct, and above all very realistic and honest way to give you the friendliest warning that there is.
To become a “skillful enough” ferrologist (if I may loosely use this term) is a relative term. The only folks that can attest to that will be your customers. And they will respect you (or not) based on what kind of service you will provide to them. Because, in this business it’s all about customer satisfaction no matter what one thinks of his/hers knowledge base.

According to the limitations already mentioned what is the solution to start developing this service and attracting customers?

Plan to find out in advance when one of the systems you are working with / hope to work with is going to be physically inspected. Run a ferrogram before the inspection, then be on site for the inspection.

Classroom training is valuable, but there's no substitute for on-site experience--and learning through a "house call" can become a great advertisement as the word gets around.

Should this ferrogram be acompannied by other oil analysis tests? Can ferrography survive as a lab service without other oil analysis tests? The promotion of this service should be more focused in ferrography with a slight reference to the other oil analysis tests or about oil analysis tests with a deep reference to ferrography? This is because the other oil tests are in another lab and I am the responsible for ferrography and if I could provide ferrography as an unique service and send samples to the other lab once in a while as the wish of some clients, that would be great.

Duarte,

As a long time end user of oil analysis services, I would not use ferrography for routine samples. It tells me nothing about the condition of the lubricant and is not easily trendable. I use analytical ferrography when routine oil analysis indicates that further investigation is required.

As other people have said, knowledge of equipment operation and failure modes is essential. The results of ferrrography should be able to point out causes of problems, not just report size and shape of particulates.

Ken Culverson

dear sir,
i am from india(hyderabad) one person who is well known professional and having more than 13 years experience in ferrography. his name is mr. sk. masood ahmed. he may help you.his e-mail id :- masoodsma@rediffmail.com & phone number is 91-040-27220798.

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