Perfecting Motion®

Perfecting Motion®

Perfecting Motion® is the official STLE podcast series, hosted by STLE, that features conversations with leading industry professionals sharing their insights about current issues and trends impacting the global tribology and lubricants community.

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Send us Fan Mail Tribology touches nearly every moving part of modern life, and the career paths within it are just as varied as the machines it protects. This episode traces that landscape from the ground up, starting in academia with mechanical engineering faculty who train the next generation of researchers, then moving into industry roles that begin with hands-on, end-user work in building and machinery maintenance. From there, the conversation branches into applied research across automo...

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Careers in Motion: Exploring the World of Tribology Jobs

Send us Fan Mail Tribology touches nearly every moving part of modern life, and the career paths within it are just as varied as the machines it protects. This episode traces that landscape from the ground up, starting in academia with mechanical engineering faculty who train the next generation of researchers, then moving into industry roles that begin with hands-on, end-user work in building and machinery maintenance. From there, the conversation branches into applied research across automo...

27 Sep 2026
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From Lubrication to Uptime: Lifetime Solutions as a Key Lever in the Use Phase

Send us Fan Mail Rolling bearings rarely fail—only about 0.35% do—but when they do, lubrication is almost always the culprit. In this episode of Perfecting Motion, Bernhard Dreisser and Daniel Merk of Schaeffler explain why grease deserves to be treated as a fifth design element, not just a consumable. They unpack the concept of "Lifetime Solutions," tracing how First Fill decisions ripple across a bearing's entire service life, why the right additive package can extend bearing life by over 6...

30 Agu 2026
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July 2026 - The Balancing Act: Lubricant Formulation, Tribometer Design, and the Gap Between Lab and Reality

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Perfecting Motion®, we sit down with a lubricant formulation and tribology expert whose work spans the full value chain — from base oil and additive chemistry to tribometer design, customer training, and future mobility applications. The conversation opens with what makes lubricant formulation genuinely difficult: not the chemistry in isolation, but the constant trade-offs between competing performance requirements, cost constraints, and application r...

26 Jul 2026
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June 2026 - From Steel Mills to Offshore Wind: Bearing Reliability, Failure Analysis, and the Tribology of Industrial-Scale Energy

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Perfecting Motion®, Debottam Bose — a bearing and lubrication application engineer at Vestas with experience spanning steel plants, heavy industrial machinery, and offshore wind turbine drivetrains — shares what decades of failure investigation and field engineering teach you about reliability at scale. The conversation moves through the fundamentals of large bearing application engineering, the discipline of root cause analysis under pressure, and the unde...

28 Jun 2026
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Professional Growth and Power of Human Connection: The Heart of Volunteering

Send us Fan Mail Abstract: Guest: Kuldeep Mistry is Senior Research Scientist at Chevron Oronite and STLE Board Member. He is a tribologist and strategist dedicated to "perfecting motion" across machines and organizations alike. With nearly two decades of R&D experience—spanning Argonne National Lab, Timken, and the University of Leeds—they currently lead the revitalization of tribology testing to accelerate lubricant innovation for everything from heavy marine engines to the next...

01 Mei 2026