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Shell LubeAnalyst: Time is Money
Downtime affects productivity and cost control. See how Shell LubeAnalyst delivers expert oil condition monitoring and early diagnostics that help you identify wear trends, prevent failures and make informed maintenance decisions.
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Title: LubeAnalyst script
Duration: 3:00 minutes
Description:
This video provides an introduction into LubeAnalyst and the service it provides to
businesses in construction, agriculture, mining, and bus and fleet industries.
[Background music plays]
The Sound of Shell adaptation – drum and bass music starts.
[Video footage]
Montage of panning bird’s eye view footage of engineers inspecting and working on
wind turbines against a background of cloud-covered, mountainous terrain.
[Female voice over]
“There’s nothing like it when everything is ticking along. Maintenance is on schedule”
[Video footage]
Extreme wide angle footage, cutting to a closer view, of welders working with heavy
duty construction materials in a subway tunnel site, with sparks flying. Zooming bird’s
eye view of a docked ship. Midview footage of two engineers walking onsite, engaged in
discussion. Low mid angle footage of two engineers looking skywards from the bottom
of a tall circular structure. Panning bird’s eye view of a mining quarry.
[Female voice over]
“Unplanned downtime is kept to a minimum. Your total cost of ownership is under
control.”
[Video footage]
A Caterpillar excavator is seen picking up and loading into a dump truck in a mining
area. Brief low angle close-up of oil being poured by a man from a barrel into a funnel
atop machinery.
[Female voice over]
“But how do you keep things that way?”
[Background music plays]
Music increases in tempo.
[Video footage and animated sequence]
Graphical devices appear and animate onto the screen showing different white-line
icons such as graphs, oil test tube, a tick and a monitor with Shell LubeAnalyst text
displaying against close-up video footage of oil being poured, with a racking focus
technique employed.
[Female voice over]
“Choose Shell LubeAnalyst.”
[Text displays]
Shell LubeAnalyst
[Video footage]
Panning mid angle footage of a man with safety glasses working on a screen in an
engineering environment. Panning close-up of the same man talking to a female
engineer. Video montage of various engineers working with laboratory equipment in a
laboratory environment, close-up shots of pressure valves, a microscope and other
equipment, and panning low-angle footage of an engineer, seen in profile, inspecting a
control panel.
[Female voice over]
“It lets you tap effortlessly into 30 years of Shell expertise in oil diagnosis with millions of
data reference points across thousands of machinery types and applications. Shell
LubeAnalyst makes it quick and simple to check the condition of your oil.”
[Video footage]
Aerial footage of an excavator picking up and transferring sand to a shipping carrier
docked alongside. Mid angle footage of a Shell representative talking to two male
workers, all wearing hard hats and safety glasses, the Shell representative pointing
towards the large pipeline PIG facing them. Tracking reverse view footage of a man,
wearing a hard hat and other safety gear, walking through a warehouse environment
holding an iPad.
[Female voice over]
“So you can get the maximum life out of your lubricants and your equipment and detect
machine wear before it causes major breakdowns.”
[Video footage and animated sequence]
Low mid angle footage of the male worker, wearing safety gear, working at a machinery
control panel with display screen, looking down periodically at an iPad held in one of his
hands, as he presses buttons on the control panel with his other hand. Against this
footage, graphical devices appear and animate onto the screen showing a white-line
moving cog icon displaying at lower frame, alongside supporting text. Next, the moving
cog icon is replaced with a test-tube icon together with liquid droplet icon, again with
supporting text alongside. Finally, the test tube and liquid droplet icons are replaced with
another, depicting three quickly-increasing stacks of coins, with supporting text
alongside.
[Text displays]
40% of samples had signs of degradation
19% of tests recommended remedial action
$20 test could save you thousands
[Female voice over]
“Last year, 40% of samples had signs of degradation. 19% of tests recommended
remedial action. A $20 test could save you thousands.”
[Video footage]
Zooming aerial footage of a factory complex, with camera zooming in from a height to
one section of the complex. Low angle close-up of an Indian male construction worker
talking and smiling, seen in profile, wearing safety glasses, hard hat and Peltor ear
muffs around his neck. Panning bird’s eye view of the factory complex. Panning high
angle footage of a male worker, wearing safety gear, working on a digital display inside
the factory. Bird’s eye view footage of five workers standing together in a paved area of
the factory complex, four of the men shaking hands in pairs as the camera angle pulls
back to a wider view.
[Female voice over]
“One customer said by using Shell LubeAnalyst, it has helped their power company
extend the life of the gear unit, and reduce unplanned downtime, with an estimated
saving of over $700,000.”
[Video footage]
Close-up of a man’s hand controlling the tap on a barrel, allowing lubricant to pour into
the cannister held in his other hand.
[Female voice over]
“Shell LubeAnalyst is easy to use and gives you two flexible options.
[Video footage and animated sequence]
Close-up of a hand holding up a graduated cylinder containing lubricant. Against this
footage, graphical devices appear and animate onto the screen showing a white-line
test tube icon displaying at upper frame left, transitioning to a microscope icon, with
supporting text displaying below.
[Text displays]
1. Send your samples to the lab
[Female voice over]
“One, remote lab testing using our new platform.”
[Video footage and animated sequence]
Close-up in profile of a male worker working at a desk in a factory environment, the
screen facing him displaying the Shell LubeAnalyst homepage. Against this footage,
graphical devices appear and animate onto the screen showing a white-line computer
icon displaying in upper centre frame, with supporting text displaying below.
[Text displays]
2. Use desktop hardware to analyse samples
[Female voice over]
“Two, on-site testing using our new desktop hardware Shell LubeAnalyst Lite.”
[Video footage]
Low angle footage of the male worker working at the computer in the factory
environment, a female worker standing alongside, speaking as she points to the display
screen facing them.
[Female voice over]
“Which gives you results in minutes.”
[Video footage]
Mid angle footage of a male worker, wearing safety gear, standing on a construction
site, looking down at his iPad and tapping on its screen, as a Volvo wheel loader
reverses in the background. Mid-view footage of three laboratory workers, all wearing
lab coats and safety glasses, standing in a laboratory environment; one man holds a
graduated cylinder filled with lubricant up to the light, while the other two workers
standing alongside him are engaged in discussion. Close-up of the lubricant-filled
cylinder held up in the man’s gloved hand. Mid-angle footage of a worker in full safety
gear, working on industrial-scale machinery in a factory environment.
[Female voice over]
“Whichever route you choose, you receive an in-depth, personalized diagnosis on the
condition of your oil and your machinery.”
[Video footage]
High angle footage of a mobile phone held in a hand, the screen displaying engineering
and construction images and data on successive and scrolled pages of the app.
[Female voice over]
“And you can check your reports on our user-friendly website and our soon-to-be-
launched mobile app. It’s hassle-free and paperless.”
[Video footage and animated sequence]
Mid-angle profile footage of an engineer standing, iPad in hand, looking out over the
various illuminated buildings of an industrial complex, seen by night, before looking
down at his iPad, where the screen illuminates his face. Against this footage, graphical
devices appear and animate onto the screen showing a white-line oil test tube icon and
then a graph icon, while text displays between the two icons.
[Text displays]
Advanced algorithms & decades of Shell data
[Female voice over]
“Your diagnosis is based on our advanced algorithms and decades of Shell data from
around the world that’s stored on the Cloud.”
[Video footage]
Low angle close-up of a female worker holding up two graduated glass flasks in her
gloved hands, both flasks filled to approximately a third with clear liquid. Close-up in
profile of two Indian men engaged in discussion in an interior environment, one man
wearing safety gear, including a hard hat with Peltor ear muffs perched on the hard hat,
and the other man smartly dressed, not wearing any safety gear. Low angle close-up of
two males wearing safety gear, including hard hats, safety glasses and ear muffs,
crouched on a factory floor, heads bent. This cuts to a high angle close-up of the men
kneeling next to a steel component, one of the men holding a torch as they inspect the
component.
[Female voice over]
“And because we test all brands of oil, you can benchmark your product accurately and
get recommendations that are exactly tailored to you.”
[Video footage]
High angle close-up of the two men, as before, heads bent over their task, the worker
holding the torch shining it down on the machinery they are inspecting. High angle
footage of a torch being shone down a steel cylinder or pipe in a factory environment.
Wide angle footage of three male workers, all wearing safety gear, including hard hats,
safety glasses and ear muffs, and seen crouched together on a factory floor, engaged in
discussion, while another worker walks past the group in the background, glancing
down at them as he passes. Tracking front view footage of three male workers, all
wearing safety gear, walking along a paved area in an industrial complex while engaged
in discussion.
[Female voice over]
“Insight that will enable you to carry out timely condition-based maintenance, saving you
serious downtime and the productivity and maintenance costs that go with it.”
[Video footage and animated sequence]
Panning low angle close-up of a female worker, wearing safety gear, working on a piece
of laboratory equipment in a laboratory environment. Low angle close-up of two male
workers engaged in animated discussion, against a background of industrial
infrastructure, both wearing safety gear, including hard hats and safety glasses.
Zooming mid angle footage of three male workers, all wearing safety gear that includes
hard hats, safety glasses and ear muffs, heads bent over equipment in a factory
environment as they talk amongst themselves. Against this footage, graphical devices
appear and animate onto the screen showing a white-line icon depicting three stacks of
coins, with supporting text alongside.
[Video footage]
As the icon and text move out of frame, we cut to close-up footage of a Shell-branded
white laboratory coat, worn by a female worker in a laboratory environment. Mid angle
footage of two female workers working in a laboratory environment, both wearing lab
coats, gloves and safety glasses; one woman lifts a lubricant-filled flask from a piece of
laboratory equipment.
[Text displays]
$105M US Dollar
[Female voice over]
“We’ve helped our customers save a documented $105 million US Dollars in the past
ten years.”
[Video footage]
Low angle footage of a female laboratory worker in a laboratory environment lifting a
flask filled with lubricant to the light, shaking it slightly in her gloved hands. Close-up of
the bottom of a glass flask as lubricant is poured into the flask from above. Mid angle
footage of two workers, both wearing safety gear that includes hard hats and safety
glasses, engaged in discussion in a factory environment.
[Female voice over]
“But Shell LubeAnalyst doesn’t just save you on your total cost of ownership.”
[Video footage]
Low angle profile footage of a driver in a truck cab, his hands controlling the steering
wheel as he drives the truck. Tracking high angle footage of two trucks driving abreast
of one another on a multilane highway, approaching the shot, with more trucks visible on
the highway in the background. Low angle close-up of two male workers, both wearing
hard hats and safety glasses, craning their necks as they inspect something in an
outdoor environment.
[Female voice over]
“It saves the headache of overseeing unplanned maintenance.”
[Video footage]
Low angle close-up of machinery running in a factory environment, belts moving
smoothly. Time lapse bird’s eye view of a cityscape by night, tall buildings illuminated
with light, with the light of traffic streaking along the streets below.
[Female voice over]
“And it saves you having to work overtime to make up lost time.”
[Video footage]
Video montage of various groups of two to three workers onsite, and in factory and
office environments, engaged in discussion, gesturing towards plant infrastructure and
machinery, giving thumbs up signals and high fiving one another, drinking coffee
together in an office environment. Slow-motion close-up of a male worker, holding a
clipboard, turning to smile for the camera, while a welder works on machinery in the
background, with sparks flying
[Female voice over]
“So you can get on with what you do best and find much better ways to spend your time
and money.”
[Video footage]
Close-up of a male worker in a factory environment seen removing his hard hat, cutting
to a close-up of a hard hat being placed on a flat surface in the factory environment.
[Female voice over]
“For healthy lubrication and benefits that go with it…”
[Video footage]
Tracking bird’s eye view of two workers wearing safety gear walking side-by-side down
the tracked area of a shipyard alongside which a vessel is docked. Dissolve to white.
[Female voice over]
“Health-check your equipment with LubeAnalyst.”
[Graphic]
Title centred on a white background.
[Text displays]
Shell Lubricants Together anything is possible
[Audio]
The Sound of Shell brand mnemonic on strings.
[Graphic]
Shell Pecten centred on a white background with text displaying below.
[Text displays]
Shell LubeAnalyst by the numbers*
$105m
Documented savings
300+
Technical Support Staff
83,000
Models
12,500
Different lubricants
*Data points from end of 2018
Functionality available online and on the mobile app
Instant 24/7 access to your diagnosis reports, your equipment performance over time, and the wider Shell database with the Shell LubeAnalyst portal.
Based on an easy-to-use and cost-effective test, our in-depth LubeAnalyst reports act as an early warning system, monitoring trends and diagnosing issues. Not only will you benefit from Shell’s years-worth of benchmarking data, you can also continually monitor your equipment’s performance and use those insights to inform better maintenance decisions.


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The LubeAnalyst app makes registering samples easy!
- Scan the bottle and equipment QR code on your phone
- Access all your reports on the go


