Come and meet the WearCheck team at BAUMA 2015, which runs from 15 to 18 September at the Johannesburg Expo Centre. We will be at stand 35, Hall 7.

Our diagnosticians and reliability solutions technicians will be present to answer technical queries and explain the ins and outs of condition monitoring and how you can keep plant operating optimally through reliability solutions techniques.

And this year, we also invite you to look through a high-powered electrical microscope, witness an alignment rig in operation as it measures vibration, and experiment with a thermography camera.

How could thermography help you?

Well, some of the advantages of thermographic imaging are:

• Visual images can be stored for future reference and used for reporting functions
• It is not limited by the object’s component material. (ferrous, nonferrous, organic)
• It is a non-contact method of measuring temperature. In the majority of applications, it could be fatal if contact is made with the object where the temperature is measured.
• It is a non-destructive test method 

Some examples of thermal imaging done recently by WearCheck include monitoring a transformer cooling defect, paint batch plant motor scanning, kiln scan, electrical application where a major fire was prevented.

These are just some of the tools used by our technicians to ensure that you SAVE MONEY by avoiding catastrophic component failure and unplanned downtime.

Above: The bright yellow light in the centre of the image shows high temperatures on part of an electrical system, which, on subsequent inspection, was found to be a loose connection on the termination point.