Reliability

Grease lubrication for railway axlebox bearings

Grease (3)
Grease plays a crucial part in the lubrication of railway axlebox bearings. SKF offers the railway industry a grease that is based on long experience with factory filled railway bearing units. SKF has developeda railway grease, LGRT 2, for the lubrication of axlebox bearings of locomotives, passenger coaches, freight wagons, diesel and electrical multiple units, as well as all kinds of mass transit vehicles such as commuter trains, metro cars, light...
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Improved lubrication in paper machines

A joint study between Safematic, part of SKF, and the Tampere University of Technology in Finland has led to an...

Reliability (1)

Reliability cast in steel

SKF ConRo relubrication-free roll units improve reliability and environmental impact in continuous casting lines. Maintenance professionalscharged with keeping continuous caster lines...

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Striving for power excellence

Operating an energy plant with a need to guarantee an availability rate of more than 90 percent calls for a...

Prokon Energiesysteme to install 250 SKF WindCon systems

Prokon Energiesysteme to install 250 SKF WindCon systems

  German wind park developer and operator, Prokon Energiesysteme GmbH, has signed an order for 250 installations of SKF WindCon, a...

IMS contract with Valero Energy Corporation

SKF has signed a performance-based IMS, Integrated Maintenance Solutions, contract with Valero Energy Corporation, the largest refiner in North America,...

Monitoring (2)

Monitoring the winds of change

Unpredictable loads and speeds are some of the challenges in the geographically scattered wind power industry. Applying condition monitoring to...

Noise (2)

Noise and vibration measurement for aerospace maintenance services

The aerospace industry has extremely stringent requirements relating to maintenance. Increased vibration can often indicate a potential problem in key...

Securing (3)

Securing green wind energy production through centralized lubrication

Wind power with its green credentials is an ever-increasing part of the electricity generation mix. Automatic relubrication is an important...

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Holding the wind in one hand

For German wind park operator Prokon, success comes from controlling the entire operation – from planning at the beginning to...