Congratulations to diagnostician Rowan Maartens on diagnosing his two millionth sample for WearCheck!

Rowan joined WearCheck in 1982 as a diagnostician, and he has clocked up a record 2 000 000 samples in the three decades he has been at WearCheck.

We are very proud of you, Rowan! While we are unsure of the precise current global statistics, we are pretty certain that you must be in the top few people in the world, if not the first person in the world, with this incredible number of diagnoses to your name.

WearCheck’s diagnostic team, who between them boast 125 collective years of oil analysis experience, successfully completed their International Council for Machinery & Lubrication (ICML) exams last year, and are now ICML certified for Level II Machinery Lubricant Analysis.

This certification is equivalent to category II of the ISO 18436-4 standard covering lubricant analysis for machine condition monitoring.  It is directed toward advanced diagnostics and troubleshooting, integration with other technologies and programme management.

‘This internationally recognised certification reflects our ongoing quest for operational excellence, our policy of employing technical specialists of the highest calibre and our commitment to the advancement of our employees,’ said managing director, Neil Robinson.

WearCheck, a member of the Set Point Group, is the only oil analysis company in Africa to have ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification.

Photo: WearCheck’s ICML certified diagnosticians (front, from left) John Evans, Michelle Allis and Rowan Maartens and (back) Steven Lara-Lee Lumley, Ravi Chetty and Daan Burger. Absent: Quinton Verster.