Case Study
Nissan - rectify oil contamination problems in assembly plant
For internal use only ! 510 -NISSAN REPORT.doc Page 1/1 NISSAN REPORT (summary) Report made by Mr. S. Hanawa, Sr. Engineer, Equipment Check Engineering Group, Engineering Experimentation Div., Third Engineering Dept. Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Kanagawa-Japan 1. BACKGROUND In 1996 and 1997, I and other engineers and technicians at Nissan Motors of Japan performed field tests in an attempt to analyse and rectify oil contamination problems in our assembly plant that manufactures the Maxima and Blue Bird models. Final results of the year-long study showed that installing off-line filtration systems reduced hydraulic breakdowns by 86,7% failure of servovalves by 92,4% We were so impressed with the results that we now specify this type of filtration system on all n