BearingNews
SKF’s bearings go digital
SKF has reached a point where digitalization brings both challenges and opportunities. The key question is how to maintain growth when ball bearings can...
Bearing obsolescence management: sourcing replacement components in pharmaceutical manufacturing
While the origin of the first bearing is unknown, Ancient Egyptian drawings depict tree trunks under sleds with liquid-lubricated runners used to move massive...
Online condition monitoring using SmartCheck prevents unplanned machine downtime at Schaeffler‘s...
By installing SmartCheck condition monitoring devices on 58 critical drives, Schaeffler’s European Distribution Centre has seen a range of benefits, including the prevention of...
Numerical Modeling of Wear in a Thrust Roller Bearing under Mixed...
By: Andreas Winkler, Max Marian, Stephan Tremmel and Sandro Wartzack
Engineering Design, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Martensstr. 9, 91058 Erlangen, Germany; tremmel@mfk.fau.de (S.T.); wartzack@mfk.fau.de (S.W.)
* Correspondence:...
Counterfeit bearings – know the risks
Counterfeit bearings are a global issue, with all markets susceptible to the risks of buying these low-quality products. As a leading manufacturer of premium-quality...
Recent Counterfeit Bearing Operations in China and Russia
On May 18, the customs service of the Chinese Shatujiao port conducted a special operation against a suspect in smuggling, transporting industrial bearings in...
Two Failure Cases with Airplane Wheel Bearings in Canada
On February 18 2020, an Airbus A319-100, which belonged to Air Canada and operated a flight from New York (USA) to Toronto (Canada) with...
The anti-microbial polymer lubrication for Bearings
DUROLUB DL-AM: The anti-microbial polymer lubrication solution
Durolub DL, a thermally treated polymer compound with a high performance synthetic hydrocarbon oil, is well accepted in...
An Innovative Way to Increase Reliability and Boost Sustainability
Reliability-as-a-Service for Proactive Assessment of Bearing Risk
As an essential element of bearing service life, lubricant chemistry has a profound effect on the reliability of rotating...
Key stages of realignment: In-house manufacturing as a growth driver
From a trading company to an own manufacturing: Rodriguez GmbH has experienced a significant change over the last 35 years. The factory in Eschweiler...
