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Engineering Competence

Proper fitting, fewer failures

After examining thousands of failed bearings over a period of years, SKF has concluded that 16 percent of all bearing failures can be attributed to [...]
Bearing life,Bearings,Condition monitoring,Maintenance,Maintenance products,Monitoring and diagnostic,Reliability,Training,
Engineering Competence

Gold in tribology

The 1997 Tribology Gold Medal has been awarded to Bo Jacobson, professor of machine elements at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. Jacobson was [...]
Research and development,
Engineering Competence

Wet jet power

Water-jet propulsion has come a long way since the 1950s when the first jet-powered boat worked to navigate a river at 15 kilometres per hour. Now [...]
Bearings,Marine,Racing,Sports,
Engineering Competence

The magic of roundness

Tiny deviations in the roundness of bearing elements can have an impact on bearing quality.Periodic form deviations in the range of an angstrom [...]
Bearings,Cars,Research and development,
Engineering Competence

Mopeds built for you

Motorised two-wheelers are the vehicles of choice on India’s crowded roadways. Now, TVS Suzuki is ensuring that those two-wheelers come in an [...]
Bearings,Motorbikes,Transportation & logistics,
Engineering Competence

At the boundary between lubrication and wear (part 1)

New evidence shows that good lubrication of gears and bearings requires only a very thin layer of lubricant separating the moving surfaces.Recent [...]
Lubrication Solutions,
Engineering Competence

Powerful car alternator bearing design

The ability to deliver greater power in a more compact form is what the auto industry is looking for in terms of current alternator design.The highly [...]
Cars,Design,

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