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,
Engineering Competence

Stuck between the pages

How does a sample of shampoo or a CD end up inside a magazine? Ferag has the answer to that and many other post-printing predicaments.Swiss engineer [...]
Bearings,Pulp and paper,