6

Sharon

Fay

Public

Relations

01/2020

Copies

of

previous

Technical

Bulletins

can

be

accessed

on

WearCheck’s

web

site:

www.wearcheck.co.za

Information

correct

at

time

of

going

to

print.

Head

Office

KwaZulu-Natal

9

Le

Mans

Place,

Westmead,

KZN,

3610

PO

Box

15108,

Westmead,

KZN,

3608

t

+27

(0)

31

700

5460

f

+27

(0)

31

700

5471

e

support@wearcheck.co.za

w

www.wearcheck.co.za

Gauteng

Office

30

Electron

Avenue,

Isando,

Gauteng,

1600

t

+27

(0)

11

392

6322

e

support@wearcheck.co.za

South

African

Branches

Cape

Town

+27

(0)

21

001

2100

+27

Port

Elizabeth

(0)

41

360

1535

+27

East

London

(0)

82

290

6684

+27

Bloemfontein

(0)

51

101

0930

+27

Rustenburg

(0)

83

938

1410

+27

Middelburg

(0)

13

246

2966

+27

Steelpoort

(0)

71

269

1332

+27

Kuruman

(0)

66

474

8628

+27

Witbank

(0)

82

878

1578

International

Branches

DRC:

+243

819

595

822

+233

Ghana

(0)

54

431

6512

+91

India

(0)

44

4557

5039

+258

Mozambique

(0)

84

697

7006

+91

UAE

767401700

Zambia:

Lumwana

+260

(0)

977

848

910

Zambia:

Kitwe

+260

(0)

212

210

161

+263

Zimbabwe:

242

446369

Publications

are

welcome

to

reproduce

articles

or

extracts

from

them

providing

they

acknowledge

WearCheck.

Please

help

us

to

be

more

earth-friendly

on

our

quest

to

reduce

paper

usage

–

if

you

would

prefer

to

receive

an

electronic

copy

of

this

publication,

please

either

email

your

request

to

support@wearcheck

.co.za

or

scan

the

QR

code

below

with

any

smart

device

and

it

will

email

us

your

request

.

The

QR

code

can

be

scanned

using

any

free

QR

reader

app.

You

can

also

request

printed

reports

to

be

emailed

to

you

instead.

JOINING

TOGETHER

TO

SUPPORT

THE

PLANET

It

must

also

be

noted

that

these

strategies

have

largely

been

successful

in

reducing

the

impact

of

wet

weather

operations.

Fleet

availability

has

been

kept

above

an

average

of

95%,

thus

the

measures

have

kept

the

wheels

turning.

CONCLUSION

The

rule

of

conversion:

With

WearCheck

,

every

oil

sample

is

an

opportunity

to

learn

and

better

apply

engineering

principles

to

solve

any

identifed

chal

lenges

with

an

endeavour

to

maintain

and

stay

up

to

date

with

modern

engineering

best

practices,

striving

to

do

better

than

the

previous

fnancial

year

or

season

-

a

continuous

improvement

approach.

The

WearCheck

oil

analysis

programme

is

a

dynamic

tool.

With

recurring

problems,

strategies

are

put

into

place

to

get

to

the

root

cause

of

the

problem

and

prevent

it

recurring

or

control

it

in

cases

where

the

chal

lenge

cannot

be

ful

ly

eliminated.

Where

necessary,

maintenance

procedures

are

modifed

accordingly,

in

line

with

the

new

trends

discovered.

At

WearCheck

,

we

establish

partnerships

that

constantly

explore

and

seek

ways

of

improving

current

systems,

processes

and

efficiencies

or

breaking

new

ground

through

oil

analysis

and

condition

monitoring

programmes.

KEY:

CF

–

Catastrophic

Failure,

PP

–

Planned

Production,

LP

–

Lost

Production

A

B

Planned

Component

Change

–

Production

Target

Attained

Increase

in

Catastrophic

Failures

–

Unplanned

Stoppages

–

Lost

Production

LP

CF

CF

PP