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Housing in washdown

The road to hygienic design

Despite the strictest cleaning regime, housed bearings can still risk food safety – unless there is a thorough understanding where such risks come [...]
Bearing housings,Bearing units,Food and Beverage,
Industry

Uptime All the Time

Apart from planned stops, the machines in Sweden’s Iggesund pulp and paperboard mill run day and night, all year round – in hot, humid and [...]
Condition monitoring,Pulp and paper,Reliability,
Engineering Competence

Thinking beyond rolling bearings: gears

Bearings and gears have a lot in common: both are machine elements that transmit load through lubricated contacts. But they also have important [...]
Manufacturing

A clean start for bearing performance

Cleanliness is a critical factor for bearing performance and reliability. In the battle against contamination, prevention is always better than cure. [...]
Industry,Manufacturing,Quality,Sustainability,
Engineering Competence
Research paper for Pumps and Compressors

Pump and compressor performance under thin film and oil-free conditions

Rolling bearing solutions for mixed-media and media lubrication in compressors or pumps
Fluid Machinery,Media lubrication,Oil-free bearing lubrication,Pumps and Compressors,Research and development,
Industry

Simulation software saves the day

SimPro Quick, SKF’s simulation software, came to the rescue when engineers at Italian-headquartered ESPE faced a seemingly insoluble alternator [...]
Design,Electricity, gas and water supply,
Industry

A turnaround for oil and gas in Indonesia

In a rapidly shifting market environment, Indonesia’s oil and gas industry needed to boost its operational efficiency. The solution involved a new [...]
extraction of oil and gas,Mining,Mining and mineral processing,

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