Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:01
WearCheck blows life into wind power industry
Renewable energy from wind power has been a strong focus point for WearCheck in recent times, particularly the extension of the reliable service life of wind turbines and their components through condition monitoring. This is in line with this year’s Windaba theme: ‘Power2thePeople – improving lives through wind energy.’ The…
Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:52
2 million samples - a world first?
Congratulations to diagnostician Rowan Maartens on diagnosing his two millionth sample for WearCheck! Rowan joined WearCheck in 1982 as a diagnostician, and he has clocked up a record 2 000 000 samples in the three decades he has been at WearCheck. We are very proud of you, Rowan! While we…
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Thursday, 09 October 2014 10:45
WearCheck Monitor Issue 68
We have had many proud WearCheck moments so far this year…and they are all featured in the latest Monitor newsletter. You can read all about our world first milestones, several loyal staff notching up an incredible 25 years’ service, new offices in two regions, millions of samples diagnosed…and even a…
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Tuesday, 09 September 2014 15:01
Join us at Electra Mining 2014
Come and learn more about oil analysis and our latest condition monitoring techniques, and how our services can provide you with an outstanding return on investment! At Electra Mining 2014, WearCheck's technical and sales teams will be on hand to give advice and share a cup of coffee with you.…
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Thursday, 17 July 2014 10:03
Implementing reliability-centred maintenance (RCM)
Implementing reliability-centred maintenance (RCM)By Daan Burger, N.D. (Elect. Eng.) This article follows on from the previous which focused on the philosophy behind reliability-centred maintenance (RCM). In this issue we describe the practical steps towards implementing an RCM programme. Using RCM to develop an initial maintenance programme for new equipment as…
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Wednesday, 02 July 2014 11:40
Reliability-centred maintenance (RCM)
RCM embodies the best aspects of the four main maintenance philosophies. Maintenance philosophies and practices have been around for many years – the objective of these philosophies being the economics consideration of optimising plant availability in industry. There has been a steady evolution from breakdown maintenance to preventive maintenance to…
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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…