STM: A Sharper Tool for Engine Tests?

摘要

The engine oil industry has various tools to reduce the cost and time required to bring new specifications into the market, including the rules commonly known as base oil interchange and viscosity grade read across guidelines. Over time these rules have evolved to simplify the cost of development and deployment of additive technologies across a wide range of base stocks and viscosity grades. Their latest iterations are essential to creating ILSAC GF-6, the passenger car engine oil upgrade now expected to see first licensing on May 1, 2020. The industry will spend over $5 million to develop BGT/VGRA guidelines for the new engine tests that define this category.