Today, time is money. Reactivity is out and sustained productivity is in. Keeping equipment such as earthmoving machines, trucks, buses, light commercial vehicles and generators operational is vital to the profitability of a business.

In the past, owners would send oil samples away to a laboratory for analysis. This would determine any problems such as blow-by, low oil pressure, coolant leaks, crank shaft float, exhaust pressures and abnormal operating temperatures. Now that has all changed. A new, mobile toolkit, in the hands of a specially-trained WearCheck technician, is able to do onsite analyses, typically to:

•Test, evaluate and verify the quality of a piece of pre-owned equipment, and the viability of its purchase
•Determine the necessity (or not) of conducting costly periodic machine overhauls or re-builds
If the results come back ‘normal’ it means it’s a ‘green’ go. If not, the ‘abnormal’ indicators equip technicians to quickly isolate and rectify the faults.

Herman Geldenhuys, WearCheck’s technical support consultant says, “The new mobile troubleshooting service takes the traditional diagnostic oil analysis to the next level by extending condition monitoring to incorporate the onsite repair dimension.”

Image caption: WearCheck’s technical support consultant Herman Geldenhuys displays the new mobile troubleshooting toolkit that he has developed.