Capital Equipment News November 2023

CONDITION MONITORING

WearCheck offers a winning condition monitoring formula

WearCheck is recognised as the pre-eminent condition monitoring services provider, with 16 world-class laboratories in nine countries across the African continent and beyond. Neil Robinson, WearCheck’s managing director, chats to Capital Equipment News about the company. W earCheck serves as a reliability solutions hub, promoting asset health through various analysis techniques. These include the scientific testing of used oil and other fluids from mechan ical and electrical systems, transformer care, asset reli ability care (ARC), water analysis, advanced field services, lubricant-enabled reliability (LER) and more,. 1) What are the key benefits of implementing condition monitoring in industrial processes? A good condition monitoring programme produces highly

accurate, scientific data about the wear patterns of oil-wetted rotating industrial machinery. This enables maintenance teams to make informed decisions about when to schedule repairs on components which indicate potential failure. Planning ahead on maintenance tasks has many benefits, including the fact that there is no disruption to an operation when a machine fails unexpectedly, and spare parts can be ordered timeously, instead of in an emergency. In short, condition monitoring helps to avoid catastrophic breakdowns, thereby boosting efficiency

“WearCheck has robustly embraced the era of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), wireless technology and machine learning, and is already in the process of incorporating artificial intelligence.”

WearCheck managing director, Neil Robinson,

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