The most valuable Technical Compliance programme is one that improves decisions. It should help a mine answer practical questions with confidence: Are our critical defects becoming less frequent? Are repairs…
Jaco Venter, senior machinery inspector in WearCheck’s NDT team, advises that non-destructive testing should be conducted regularly as part of a reliability-centred condition monitoring programme, rather than in isolation after…
Quarries and mines lose thousands of productive hours each year due to conveyor system issues and some of the most common ones are belt misalignment, material carryback and rip events…
Using different techniques together ensures a more reliable and accurate diagnosis of the health of flat-bed CNC lathe failure. Assumptions based on a single fault parameter can result in misagnosis…
In the maintenance of CNC flat-bed lathe machines, anomalies reveal themselves gradually. Sometimes these may go unnoticed, and this should concern production teams in component manufacturing companies. In view of…
Dissolved Gas Analysis is used mostly for fault detection in transformers, and it is critically important that the analysis is accurate. For power utilities and heavy industry, a failed transformer is…
In heavy industries, accurate data on the condition of mission-critical equipment is everything. However, this is only effective when captured at the right time through real-time monitoring. Only then can…
In equipment inspection, some areas are difficult, dangerous, or impossible for technicians to reach. That is where drones are bridging the gap. Equipped with advanced sensors, high-resolution cameras, and LiDAR,…
"You can install ten pumps from the same OEM, running under the same process conditions, in the same plant, with the same lube, and still... they won’t age the same.…
The maintenance team did everything right: they shut down the motor, took precise shaft alignment measurements, and made the necessary adjustments. At room temperature, the numbers were perfect. But a…
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