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

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

Trouble-Free in Scandinavia

TFO means Trouble-Free Operation. But to make it more than just another technical abbreviation, it takes know-how. SKF Scandinavia is focusing on [...]
Bearing life,Bearings,Condition monitoring,Maintenance,Monitoring and diagnostic,Reliability,Training,
Engineering Competence

Eye on the new millennium

Do you believe that the arrival of the third millennium – as counted by the Gregorian calendar – is cause for a big celebration? Whether or not you [...]
Bearings,
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,