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Engineering Competence

Keep the presses rolling

The technical requirements on bearings in modern printing presses are very demanding, particularly for printing cylinders.Main cylinders or printing [...]
Bearings,Printing,
Engineering Competence

Slewing bearings break new ground

Recent developments at SKF have been able to increase slewing bearing life by around 400% using software-based analysis.By their very nature, slewing [...]
Bearing life,Digitization,Marine,
Engineering Competence

Ceramics stand up to harsh realities

Ceramic materials offer the ability to solve bearing-related problems previously insoluble using conventional materials.Ceramic materials are hard [...]
Bearings,Research and development,
Engineering Competence

The art of silence

It’s like a dream. Sailing on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Surrounded by gorgeous settings, you decide to spend the evening at the on-board [...]
Bearings,Marine,
Digital Technology

Interactive bearing selection

The new SKF Interactive Engineering Catalogue on CD-ROM has been released. It is based on the contents of the SKF catalogues General Catalogue, Large [...]
Digitization,Training,
Digital Technology

Industrial intelligence

SKF Condition Monitoring equipment used by Iggesund Paperboard in Workington, U.K., has proved invaluable by providing advance warning of an imminent [...]
Artificial intelligence,Condition monitoring,Maintenance,Maintenance products,Monitoring and diagnostic,Pulp and paper,Reliability,
Industry

Ovako Steel invests for the future

Ovako Steel, a fully owned subsidiary of SKF, has built a new tube mill in Hofors, Sweden. Commissioned in May 1998, Tube Mill 6 is the most modern [...]
Metals,

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