Perfecting Motion®

About 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.

Publisher

STLE Podcast

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jul 2021

Latest episode

27 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

44 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Sept 2026

   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...

2. 

   30 Aug 2026

   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...

3. 

   26 Jul 2026

   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...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

34,267

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

29

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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