ICML is the International Council for Machinery Lubrication and is a vendor neutral, non profit, global organization founded to facilitate growth and development of machinery lubrication as a technical field of endeavor. ICML is dedicated to the betterment and development of the machinery lubrication industry.

It helps lubrication practitioners succeed in their professional careers through its certification program, ICML advocates the needs for practioner for additional lubrication-related standards and plays an important role in supporting the development of such standards , by working in conjunction with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in lubrication related working groups. ICML also advocates lubrication curriculum at vocational and technical schools. In short, ICML is changing the course of machinery lubrication