Research and Development LLC, focused on industrial lubricants and hydraulic fluids, and the contamination and degradation mechanisms that make them less than optimally effective. Lubrication and hydraulic fluids are designed to reduce friction, provide power transmission, remove heat, and conduct wear debris from the point of origin to a place for removal from the lubrication environment. Lubrication and hydraulic systems are dynamic ever changing critical systems which when left unattended account for close to 50% of the root causes of machinery failure.