MechChem Africa March 2018

⎪ Petrochemical industries, oil and gas ⎪

Condition monitoring specialist WearCheck has run popular skills training courses for its customers for over 20 years. Its training material assists staff in various positions within the maintenance teams to ensure that the monitoring and upkeep of components is conducted as efficiently as possible. A well-trained workforce boosts profits

W earCheck employs reliabil- ity solutions services such as used oil analysis, thermal imaging, vibration monitor- ing, balancing, laser alignment and others, to monitor and maintain machinery at its optimum yield. Customers with well-trained maintenance staff can supply better samples anddatatoWearCheck,boostingtheintegrity of the test results and thus gaining optimum benefit from their condition-monitoring programme. Over the40years inbusiness,WearCheck has compiled a database of sample diagnoses andwear trends, adding 600000 newsample results annually to the data. Much of the training course material draws on this data- base, with the addedbenefit thatWearCheck processes samples from a range of OEMs.

Oil Analysis One (two full days) and Oil Analysis Two (one full day) are the company’s core offering and all courses include course material, refreshments, giveaways and cer- tificates. Both of these courses can be pre- sented at the customer’s venue, and courses can also be customised to specific customer requirements. WearCheck also offers two other on-site courses: • WearCheck Practical (in English or Zulu), (half day). • WearCheck Customised – oil analysis for workshop technicians. Thesecanalsobepresentedat thecustomer’s premises for a minimum of seven delegates. Oil analysis training courses can be arranged in any of the following areas: Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Kimberley,

Makopane, Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth, Rustenburg, Steelpoort, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania (Mwanza), Zambia (Kitwe) – in fact, anywhere in the world.

Mobius training for reliability solutions

Refinery to undergo planned maintenance Engen Refinery, South Africa’s second largest oil refinery, is ongoing planned maintenance. This scheduled activity forms part of the refinery’s ongoing maintenance programme. It started on 5 February and will run for 45 days until 30 March 2018. Jehan Zaib, general manager of the Engen Refinery, explains that routine planned maintenance is essential for the safe and reliable operation of the facility. “The planned outage will primarily focus onessentialplantmaintenanceandinspec- tion activities aswell as process regenera- tion activities,” says Zaib. Additional resources over this period will see the creation of approximately 4 600 temporary positions for skilled workers and, where possible, people have The full Mobius course includes compul- sory six-month practical training sessions. Participants are guided by WearCheck expertise that has been gained through the successful implementation of condition monitoring programmes tailored to meet the specific needs of operating, engineer- ing and maintenance departments across a range of industries. The Mobius Institute is a worldwide provider of education in reli- ability improvement, condition monitoring andprecisionmaintenance, to industrial plant managers, reliability engineers and condition monitoring technicians. WearCheck runs Mobius courses on demand. To book contact Christene on chris- tenef@wearcheck.co.zaorDennis Swanepoel on denniss@wearcheck.co.za. q As the certified Mobius training centre for the entireAfrican continent,WearCheck also runsMobius courses on request fromcustom- ers, on-siteat thecustomer’spremises, almost anywhere in Africa.

Ashley Mayer of WearCheck conducts Mobius training in Zimbabwe.

2018 WearCheck Training Courses

Venue

Oil Analysis 1: Understanding oil and its analysis

Oil Analysis 2: Report interpretation

Two full days

One full day

Gauteng

Completed

Completed

Middelburg

Completed

Completed

Cape Town

15-16 May

17 May

Rustenburg

19-20 June

21 June

Bloemfontein

10-11 July

12 July

Pinetown

14-15 August

16 August

Namibia

11-12 September

13 September

Gauteng

16-17 October

18 October

Northern Cape

6-7 November

8 November

For more details on course content, view Training at www.wearcheck.co.za. To book, phone Steven Lumley on (031) 700-5460 or email training@wearcheck.co.za.

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