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Manufacturing

Plenty of power in stainless steel ingredient

Making ferrosilicon for steel alloys is a hot and heavy business. Norwegian smelter Elkem Salten uses both hearsay and advanced sensor systems to [...]
Bearings,Engineering consultancy,Maintenance products,Metals,Seals,
Manufacturing

Take care of your crusher

It takes rugged equipment to crush mountains of rocks down to small sizes. It also takes a smoothly operating service organisation.Since the dawn of [...]
Bearings,Cylindrical roller bearings,Design,Integrated maintenance solutions,Mechanical maintenance,Mining and mineral processing,Reliability,
Engineering Competence

After the storm

When a devastating hurricane hit Chevron’s oil refinery in the southern U.S. in 1998, it left seaweed on two-metre-high fences and a mark on the [...]
Engineering consultancy,Maintenance,Reliability,Training,
Engineering Competence

Maintenance works itself out of a job

Scheduled machinery overhauls and quick responses to breakdowns are no longer enough. Now service organisations must attack the root of the [...]
Condition monitoring,Reliability,
Digital Technology

Service is our business

This issue of Evolution is dedicated to the service business, one of the cornerstones of SKF. There are many ways to describe what constitutes good [...]
Condition monitoring,Lubrication Solutions,Maintenance products,Monitoring and diagnostic,Pulp and paper,Remanufacturing,
Engineering Competence

Bearings for vibrating machinery

Vibrating machines represent some of the most challenging applications for bearings. Spherical roller bearings for vibrating applications offer [...]
Agriculture,Bearing life,Bearings,
Engineering Competence

Speed record on inline skates

Jürg Schläfli of Switzerland has set the 1998 world record for high-speed inline skating while being pulled by a motorcycle. Pulled by a 1100 cc [...]
Bearings,Motorbikes,

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