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At WearCheck, we strive to provide you, our customers, with the best possible service.

We conduct an annual survey to get your guidance and input on where there is room for improvement, or what we are doing right – please help us to do even better by rating us.

The questionnaire takes around two minutes to complete and can be filled in online or submitted via fax or email.

We genuinely take your advice to heart, so thank you, in advance, for sending us your feedback.

To thank you for your time, we offer each respondent the chance to be entered into a lucky draw to win R2 000 cash. The winner will be announced in September.

Here is a quick link to the online survey:

https://online.wearcheck.co.za/PRODUCTION/anon/survey.aspx

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We’re Hiring
Customer Support Assistant - Isando, Johannesburg

A Vacancy exists at WearCheck Johannesburg for the above position. The applicant will be responsible for all customer support functions (including sales, after sales and general enquiries) as well as general office administration duties.

MAIN JOB FUNCTIONS

• Attending to all incoming telephonic queries from customers
• Co-ordinating credit application for the branch
• The administrative functions needed when training courses are run
• Stock take, issuing and ordering of stationary
• Attending to the overnight courier items
• Reconciling dispatch notes and deliveries
• Managing the printing processes
• Switchboard and reception duties when needed
• General office duties
• Contacting all Customers where information accompanying the samples is incomplete or conflicting with the database and rectifying the incorrect information where necessary
• Generating quotations
• Allocating products to customers and generating dispatch notes
• Follow up on all outstanding quotes, orders, and queries
• Petty cash duties

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum Education - Matric
• Previous work experience in a sales environment is essential as well as the ability to generate quotes and capture sales
• Computer skills
• Excellent communication skills and customer liaison skills – ability to liaise at all levels
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good organisational skills and good time management
• Excellent telephone skills
• Attention to detail
• Team player
• Ability to communicate in English required and the knowledge of Afrikaans and another South African indigenous language advantageous

WearCheck will supply the successful candidate with any additional, relevant training on the WearCheck system and system updates as required.

Applications close on the 24th July 2019. Only CV’s sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will be considered.

If you have not received a reply regarding your application by 31st July 2019, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

Keeping machinery running smoothly is key to the efficient running of any mechanical operation, and those at the ‘coal face’ of the equipment – the machinery operators – are in prime position to monitor the condition of the components.

Upskilling operators to ensure that their machines are in perfect working order goes a long way to avoiding unplanned breakdowns. WearCheck has just launched a new course in which operators are trained in asset care, to remedy minor problems before the maintenance department is called in.

Course delegates earn three CPD points and cover the following areas of training: managing equipment lubrication, containing harmful debris, the importance of cleaning and inspection, the differences between age-related and random failures, inspection techniques, the importance of bearing, seal and lubrication failure as well as using activity boards and other related skills.

Course facilitator Jaco Kleynhans, from Gert Oberholzer Consulting, has over 20 years’ experience in machinery maintenance as well as training. His insight into component maintenance has been developed through working in many industries, including automotive, production, mining and civil construction.

For more information on the OAC training course please contact Michelle Van Dyk at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Thank you to everyone who visited the WearCheck stand at African Utility Week (AUW) in Cape Town recently.

Many good conversations about our specialist condition monitoring services were had, with particular focus on the electrical/power generation sector.

Maintaining the health of components is so important for improved productivity of transformers, engines, gearboxes and electric motors. Regular assessment and used oil analysis help achieve optimum condition of components. Examination of the physical condition of components helps avoid unplanned failure, while transformer health is monitored through regular assessment of insulating fluid – these are the steps to reducing maintenance costs.

The massive expense of unplanned failure can be avoided with regularly-scheduled oil testing.  This reliable maintenance practice helps optimise the life of components. Other condition monitoring techniques include vibration analysis, balancing, alignment, motor circuit analysis and thermography.

Image: WearCheck’s stand at African Utility Week featured maintenance of power generation operations.

Thamsanqa “Thami’ Shongwe is WearCheck’s new in-house instrument technician. Armed with a national diploma in electrical engineering (light current), and several years of experience as an electronic technician, a production technician and a repair technician – this has stood him in good stead to ensure that he is highly instrumental in keeping the company’s laboratory equipment operating accurately and efficiently.

Thami is responsible for maintaining all the instruments in 15 of the 16 WearCheck laboratories - those that are situated on the African continent.

Lubricants can thermally degrade for a variety of reasons and causes. Unlike oxidation, thermal failure can occur in new lubricants with healthy additive packages. However, many of the symptoms of oxidation are also symptoms of thermal degradation.

One of the most common causes of thermal failure in hydraulic fluids and some lubricating oils relates to aeration, i.e. entrained air bubbles. These bubbles can become rapidly compressed in hydraulic pumps and in the squeeze zones of bearings. This results in high localized temperatures. Hot surface carbonization is another form of thermal failure. When an oil thermally degrades, problems associated with sludge, varnish, deposits, viscosity change and additive decomposition will often occur.

Dennis Swanepoel – WearCheck’s reliability solutions consultant, Mobius trainer and CAT IV graduate – just returned from the latest CBM (Condition Based Monitoring) Conference in the Middle East, where he conducted four different presentations for delegates from all over the globe.

The sessions run by Dennis included two one day presentations - Animated Introduction to Vibration Analysis and Practical Vibration Analysis, and two 45 minute presentations titled Time Waveform Setup Fundamentals and Practical High Frequency Demodulation.

WearCheck MD Neil Robinson says the company is proud of Dennis. ‘It is a great honour to be invited to present to such high-calibre delegates on highly technical issues. These topics are Dennis’ areas of expertise, and we are delighted that he is gaining international recognition for his in-depth reliability solutions knowledge.’

To add to the honour, Dennis is currently serving a year-long term as an editorial board member of the international organisation CBMConnect, which is run by the Mobius Institute. The board is made up of nine industry thought leaders from around the world and is tasked with guiding condition-based maintenance multimedia content for CBM professionals.

Image left: Dennis Swanepoel, WearCheck’s reliability solutions consultant, Mobius trainer and CAT IV graduate, presented four papers at the CBM conference in Abu Dhabi recently.

Image right: Dennis Swanepoel is on the editorial board for CBMConnect this year, run by the Mobius Institute. Here, he discusses vibration analysis with another delegate at the CBM conference in the Middle East in April.

WearCheck will once again be exhibiting at African Utility Week (AUW), which takes place in Cape Town from 14 to 16 May 2019. We will be at stand H6 – please come and meet us.

We offer specialist condition monitoring services across many industries, including the electrical/power generation sector. Our Transformer Chemistry Services division and our Reliability Solutions division will be showcased at AUW.

We believe that, to minimise maintenance costs, it is critically important to boost the health of components, including transformers, engines, gearboxes and electric motors. Optimum health of components is achieved through regular assessment and used oil analysis. Examination of the physical condition of components helps avoid unplanned failure, while transformer health is monitored through regular assessment of insulating fluid.

Compared with the cost of unplanned machinery failure, investment in regularly-scheduled oil testing is a cost-effective and sound maintenance practice that helps optimise the life of components. Other condition monitoring techniques include vibration analysis, balancing, alignment, motor circuit analysis and thermography.

Remember - come and meet WearCheck at stand H6 at AUW. Visit www.wearcheck.co.za or https://www.african-utility-week.com/ for more info.

Contact WearCheck on tel. (031) 700-5460 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – we are standing by to help you reduce your maintenance costs.

Calling all Capetonians - WearCheck is running these training courses this month: Oil Analysis 1 (14^th, 15^th May) and Oil Analysis 2 (16^th May) at Eversdal.

It’s a proven fact – the maintenance costs are reduced for machinery or components that undergo regular condition monitoring in the form of oil analysis, and they also have far less unplanned failure. To gain a deeper understanding of oil analysis and how it can benefit both you and your company, sign up for the next training course, which takes place next week. To book your spot email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you can’t make the Cape Town courses, here are future dates for other courses around the country:

2019 WearCheck Training Courses

Oil Analysis One covers two full days and costs R6 660.  Oil Analysis Two and the NetCheck course cover one full day each and each costs R3 450.  All courses include course material, refreshments, giveaways and certificates. Prices exclude VAT and are subject to change. 

For more details on course content, view Training at www.wearcheck.co.za. For bookings contact Michelle van Dyk on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

On-site training

All courses can also be presented at the customer’s premises for a minimum of ten delegates. 

WearCheck also offers two more on-site courses:

• WearCheck Practical (in English or Zulu), a half day course costing R860 plus VAT per delegate
• WearCheck Customised – oil analysis for workshop technicians, a full day course costing R3 000 plus VAT per delegate.

For on-site training, there may be an additional charge for the lecturer’s travel and accommodation, if needed.

Arrange a training course near you

Training courses can also be arranged in any of the following areas:

• Bloemfontein
• Cape Town
• Kimberley
• Makopane
• Middelburg
• Nelspruit
• Port Elizabeth
• Rustenburg
• Steelpoort
• Botswana
• Namibia
• Tanzania (Mwanza)
• Zambia (Kitwe)

WearCheck technical support consultant Quentin Gustav von Kleist recently travelled to Nchalo in Southern Malawi, where he conducted training courses for Unitrans.

Staff from the cartage and transport contracting company were taught all about oil analysis, including the importance of taking samples correctly, how to complete the sample paperwork, how to interpret report results and what remedial action to take where necessary.

WearCheck technical support consultant Quentin Gustav von Kleist (second from left) with some of the Unitrans workers who underwent condition monitoring training last week.