Tuesday, 17 June 2014 11:44
Stay on the ball with WearCheck
Olá! Calling all World Cup Soccer fans! We have created a special World Cup match schedule for you, which is available to download - free - from the WearCheck website. The handy viewing schedule contains useful information such as the dates, times and which teams are playing in each match,…
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Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:33
Silicon... Enemy number one. Part 2.
Using oil analysis to detect dust early. Before the use of oil analysis, a dust entry problem would go undetected until a routine strip down or a failure occurred. Even then, often the wear would be attributed to lubricant breakdown or normal wear and tear. With the use of oil…
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Monday, 09 June 2014 14:31
Silicon... Enemy number one.
External contamination of lube oil by silicon (dust) is a major cause of accelerated wear. After oxygen, silicon is the most abundant element in the earth’s crust. Silicon does not occur naturally in elemental form but rather combined with oxygen in a compound called silica (silicon dioxide.) Silicon occurs in…
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Sunday, 25 May 2014 06:58
SAIT National Awards
Following the recent South African Institute of tribology (SAIT) annual national awards dinner in Johannesburg, WearCheck is very proud to report that our senior diagnostician - Steven Lara-Lee Lumley - was awarded the prize for best technical presentation, for her paper entitled "The winds of change - The role of oil…
Friday, 09 May 2014 11:39
African Utility Week
WearCheck invites you to attend and interact with our sales and technical teams at this year’s African Utility Week (AUW) exhibition at the Cape Town International Conference Centre on 13 and 14 May 2014. Our full range of condition monitoring products will be showcased at the AUW. In particular, our transformer and wind…
Monday, 05 May 2014 08:38
WearCheck harnesses the winds of change
WearCheck recently developed and launched a condition monitoring kit which is designed specifically for wind turbines, aiming to boost their reliability and reduce operating costs. Wind power is the world's largest growing energy source thanks to advancing wind turbine technology. Wind turbines have the potential to generate enough power to…
Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:17
MMEC Mozambique exhibition
WearCheck Mozambique – WearCheck’s 10th laboratory, and the newest one to open, in March 2014 - will be present at the 4th MMEC exhibition & conference, which takes place in Maputo, Mozambique at the Joaquim Chissano Conference Center from the 26th to 28th March. The event focuses on the Mozambique Mining, Energy, Oil…
Thursday, 13 February 2014 12:35
Super 15 viewing schedule
In just 2 days we see the kick-off of the largest and longest rugby tournament in the Southern Hemisphere.WearCheck has made it easy for you to follow your team's progress with a viewing schedule highlighting all the matches and television times. Click here to download
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Monday, 20 January 2014 10:58
Technical Bulletin 57: Holistic Diagnosis
A tried and tested method of condition monitoring, oil analysis reveals a wealth of critical information about the health of machinery components, providing invaluable insight into what maintenance action should be taken. For example, the levels of contamination of the oil (or grease) can indicate certain potential wear problems. However,…
Wednesday, 11 December 2013 07:58
Monitor issue 67
How to change degraded oil effectively, a handy lube tip, and the latest developments in efficient plant performance management . . . read all about these stories, and many more, in the December issue of WearCheck’s Monitor newsletter. Other news features the latest on the brand new WearCheck Mozambique laboratory…
Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:44
WearCheck’s on the ball
A team of fleet-footed footballers from WearCheck entered the first maritime industry friendly soccer tournament in the Western Cape recently, where hundreds of players from a range of marine-based businesses exchanged their workplaces for a football pitch, for the day. During a fun-filled, spirited day, the WearCheck Warriors team won…
Tuesday, 12 November 2013 07:32
And the winner is...
To all the WearCheck customers who took the time to complete our recent survey … thank you! Through constructive dialogue, we aim to continuously improve and streamline the service which we deliver to you, our customers, making everyone into winners. Each year, as a mark of WearCheck’s gratitude to customers…