Monday, 21 August 2017 14:27
Hola, WearCheck
Buenos Aires in Argentina was the 2017 destination for the annual International WearCheck Group (IWCG) gathering. Member countries meet in a different part of the world every year to share ideas and international news on condition monitoring, and to discuss industry innovations. It is also a key opportunity to sustain…
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Wednesday, 02 August 2017 12:56
What works for you? Where could we improve? WearCheck is listening….
Every year, we invite you, our customers, to take two minutes (literally, 2 minutes!) of your time to suggest ways in which we can improve our service to you. Your input and feedback helps us make important changes. And here’s a bonus - you’ll be entered into a lucky draw…
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Friday, 21 July 2017 09:09
A first for WearCheck
Dennis Swanepoel of WearCheck’s reliability solutions division has just made history when he became the very first Master Vibration Analyst in South Africa after he met all certification requirements, and also passed his CAT IV exam recently held through the Mobius Institute in South Africa - with flying colours, to…
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Friday, 30 June 2017 10:54
Innovation for WearCheck Bloem
WearCheck Bloemfontein now has a convenient sample drop box attached to the front gate, making life simpler for local customers. All they need to do, is drop off filled sample containers into the box, which is cleared several times per day. The box is extremely secure and sample bottles can…
Monday, 19 June 2017 13:23
Monitor 74 hits the newsstands
WearCheck has plenty of exciting news to share – the acquisition of a company which spells good news for the transformer industry, investment in brand new laboratory instruments, the launch of the new WearCheck app, and plenty more interesting snippets. Read all about it in the latest issue of the…
Friday, 02 June 2017 13:33
WearCheck pioneers condition monitoring app
WearCheck pioneers condition monitoring app The launch of WearCheck Mobile, our brand new interactive condition monitoring application (app), enables customers to have vital information about the condition of their components at their fingertips 24/7/365. Managing director Neil Robinson believes that WearCheck is one of only a handful of condition monitoring…
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Monday, 15 May 2017 05:12
African Utility Week
WearCheck will be at the 17th annual African Utility Week, which takes place from 16 – 18 May in Cape Town. This will be the first time that WearCheck attends this global meeting of African power and water utility professionals. Ian Gray, from WearCheck’s newly-formed transformer reliability services division, will…
Wednesday, 10 May 2017 15:51
WearCheck takes over transformer services company
WearCheck recently bought out Transformer Chemistry Services (TCS), adding an already-established transformer analysis and maintenance division to the company’s condition monitoring portfolio. Coupled with our Africa-wide network, the expertise of TCS and a general growth in the number of transformers across the continent, WearCheck is now poised to provide large-scale…
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Tuesday, 02 May 2017 09:45
Just plane condition monitoring...
Just plane condition monitoring . . . the WearCheck brand reached new heights recently where the company logo holds pride of place on the fuselage and wings of one of the aircraft of an air acrobatics team sponsored by holding company Torre Industries. Look out for the plane flying over…
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Friday, 28 April 2017 11:42
New lab instruments generate faster sample results
We recently invested in excess of R1.7 million in new high-tech equipment in both the transformer and fuel sections of our Joburg-based Speciality laboratory. The Kruss K11 tensiometer, an ADU 5 distillation unit, a SVM3001 stabinger viscometer as well as the PMA 5 Pensky-Martens closed-cup flash point tester are among…
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Tuesday, 18 April 2017 13:13
Mining Indaba
WearCheck was once again present at Mining Indaba 2017 recently, where many people came to the stand to chat about condition monitoring. This year, WearCheck shared a stand with sister company Set Point Laboratories (SPL), which is also part of holding company Torre Analytical Services. Standing by to discuss the…
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Thursday, 30 March 2017 10:09
WearCheck welcomes a very special visitor
From small beginnings as a soil-testing business based in the garage of founder Lesley Crawford and her business partner Gary Brown over 40 years ago, WearCheck has grown into one of the leading condition monitoring companies on the African continent today. Lesley, who now lives in France, made a special…
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