MONTHLY MAGAZINE
JANUARY 2026
ISSUE NO. 01
Wear Parts
Meticulous Material Selection is Non-Negotiable
When it comes to wear protection to ensure equipment reliability, informed decisions are not subject to debate: they have to be made at all costs, and meticulously at that. This is particularly true in the selection of wear parts for mission-critical equipment like crushers in mining, where reliability is the heart of operations.
Delivering Fabricator-Friendly Wear Protection Materials
Balancing hardness with uncompromised toughness, NLMK South Africa’s QUARD is purpose-engineered for severe abrasive and high-impact environments.Â
Self-lubricating Bearings Increase Shotcreting Machine Uptime
Vesconite Bearings is a South African-based, internationally recognised manufacturer of self-lubricating polymer bearings and wear materials for demanding industrial applications. One of the company’s clients…
Condition Monitoring
Don’t Ignore Warning Signs of Flat-bed CNC Lathe Failure
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.
Preventing Costly Bearing Failures in Flat-Bed CNC Lathes
Bearing-related problems can unexpectedly halt the running of a flat-bed lathe in a component manufacturing plant. Thus far, the sure-fire way to avert this is by keeping a close eye on machine health, performing regular ….
Reducing the Risk of Flat-bed Lathe Fault Misdiagnosis
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 and a waste of time and resources on wrong interventions.
Transformers
WearCheck’s Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) For Transformers Turns Data Into Uptime
Dissolved Gas Analysis is used mostly for fault detection in transformers, and it is critically important that the analysis is accurate.
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For power utilities and heavy industry, a failed transformer is rarely just a maintenance incident; it is a production outage, a grid constraint, and a safety risk.Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) is one of the powerful laboratory tools used for identifying transformer faults before they become failures.
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Transformers help to transfer electricity over long distances, often playing key roles in the infrastructure of a region and ensuring power supply to cities, industrial plants and other critical users. Therefore, implementing a condition monitoring programme that facilitates early detection of faults and potential failures is very important.
Conveyor Motor & Primary Gyratory Crusher
VibGuard IIoT Prevents Over $1.7 Million in Losses for Two South African Operations
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 it inform maintenance teams of early signs of failure and enable decisive action before issues escalate.
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VibGuard IIoT, a Fluke Reliability solution implemented in South Africa by Yellotec, provides this capability through real-time, high-frequency online vibration monitoring, multi-channel diagnostics, and advanced fault detection. Each device supports up to 20 vibration channels, using synchronous sampling to detect subtle deviations, establish trends, and issue early warnings.
Digital Twin
The Black Box: Hype or Hope?
You probably know the Nokia brand from the early mobile phones market, don’t you (Nokia 3310)? Well, the company has evolved, focusing on bigger things in industrial digitisation.
Filtration
The Journey of Fuel is Plagued By Contaminants
Nothing is foolproof, but effective filtration goes a long way toward protecting your engine. Today’s advanced filtration media are designed to protect engines beyond current industry standards. This is the advice from Donaldson for players in heavy industry.
Skills development and training
Transforming Maintenance Capability into Competence
Organisations often commit the folly of approaching maintenance the same way and expecting different results – frustratingly, to no avail. For instance, even headhunting the most skilled engineers and other critical talent doesn’t improve reliability.
