Engineering Competence

Explorer – a new generation of spherical roller bearings

Explorer is a new performance class for standard spherical roller bearings that makes it possible to raise power density significantly. It also opens [...]
Bearing life,Bearings,Research and development,
Engineering Competence

Pure steel challenges measuring methods

Standard steel processes have improved so much in recent years that they are able to produce bearing steel qualities that now require better [...]
Metals,Research and development,
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,
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

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

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,
Engineering Competence

More than a catalogue

The Interactive Engineering Catalogue from SKF, available on CD-ROM and online on the Internet, offers a number of advantages over print [...]
Engineering consultancy,Engineering tools,Training,