Engineering Competence

A mine with a mission

When Asarco Inc. mines copper ore at its Mission Complex in the midst of the southwest US desert, it’s a battle against both temperature and costs.In [...]
Bearing life,Bearings,Condition monitoring,Construction,Integrated maintenance solutions,Reliability,
Engineering Competence

A heavenly view

The Gemini telescopes will see farther into space than ever before in the history of astronomy, even penetrating space clouds to watch stars being [...]
Aerospace,Bearings,Construction,
Engineering Competence

On forestry’s front line

Forestry is becoming a precision science. The latest harvester from North American – Scandinavian equipment manufacturer Timberjack assesses data [...]
Agriculture,Automation,Bearings,Hub units,Mechatronics,
Engineering Competence

In magazines around the world

Expansion and specialisation are key words for Finland’s UPM-Kymmene. Today the company produces the lion’s share of the world’s magazine paper.When [...]
Condition monitoring,Integrated maintenance solutions,Maintenance,Pulp and paper,Reliability,
Engineering Competence

Why walk if you can wetz?

From Atlanta to Zürich, young and old are wetzing their way through urban jungles on a device that blends the ergonomics of a scooter with the [...]
Bearings,Transportation and logistics,
Engineering Competence

Railway bearings pass new test

SKF’s railway axlebox with cylindrical roller bearings was the first to pass the 25-tonne test under the new standard EN 12082 (European Norm). The [...]
Bearings,Railways,Transportation & logistics,
Engineering Competence

Oil condition checker

OilCheck TMEH 1 is a new hand-held tool from SKF to determine degradation and contamination of mineral and synthetic oils. The easy-to-use tool makes [...]
Lubrication Solutions,