Tag: bearings
PeakVue Plus identifies lubrication issues on critical bearings
Poor bearing lubrication identified and immediately remedied
Here is a great example from James Sylvester of how visually helpful the new Emerson 2140 PeakVue Plus is while working on...
Should remanufactured bearings become the norm?
The advantages of remanufacturing
According to SKF, it takes approximately 100 process steps to produce a new bearing, compared to roughly ten for a remanufactured...
China Bearing Export Stats for Q1 – 2021
Last week, new statistics were released on the export of bearings from China for the first quarter of 2021. According to these numbers released,...
Timken Engineers Design Bearings for the Next Mars Rover
On 18 February 2021, a new rover landed on Mars with a mission to search for signs of ancient microbial life. When that day...
Non-magnetic and Non-conductive Bearings
Sometimes applications require bearings to be non-magnetic or non-conductive. Such bearings may be required in, for example, medical equipment such as MRI scanners, electron...
A BRAVE new world for bearings
An experimental verification facility that will provide unprecedented insights into the mechanisms behind bearing failures and performance prediction is being built by SKF.
Some ten...
The myth of play and precision in bearings
Why radial play and tolerance are not one and the same
There is some confusion surrounding the relationship between the precision of a bearing, its...
Properly considering the influence of shaft bending when testing bearings
Author: Hagen Elgeti, January 2021
Abstract
Bearings in planetary gears, hydraulic pumps and others are frequently exposed to conditions where elastic deformations in their surrounding parts...
Benefits of Remanufacturing of Bearings
SKF’s guru when it comes to Remanufacturing of Bearings, Hannes Leopoldseder hosts a short briefing on the benefits of remanufacturing of bearings and how this helps...
How bearings are playing their part in new pump designs
By Mark Wakeham, Key Account Manager, and Mark Pritchard, Senior Sales and Applications Engineer, at The Barden Corporation
Semiconductors are an integral part of society and...
