Engineering Competence

Help for historic hangar

Cardington Airship Hangar in Bedfordshire, England, could house an aircraft carrier. The floor area of the hangar is twice the size of a football [...]
Aerospace,Bearings,Maintenance,Reliability,Remanufacturing,
Engineering Competence

Sensorised bearings in door mechanisms

Gebr. Bode & Co. GmbH, a German manufacturer of door systems for suburban trains, has selected SKF sensorised bearings for the drive mechanisms [...]
Bearings,Electrical,Mechatronics,Railways,Transportation & logistics,
Engineering Competence

Mobile monitoring

SKF developed a new condition monitoring device which, besides offering an exact analysis and early detection of rolling bearing defects, is compact [...]
Bearing life,Bearings,Condition monitoring,Monitoring and diagnostic,Reliability,
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

Where repeats are banned

To improve bearing performance in any plant, it is of utmost importance that all efforts are made to ensure that failures are not repeated. These [...]
Bearings,Lubrication Services,Lubrication Solutions,Maintenance,Reliability,
Engineering Competence

Parallel condition monitoring

Practical experience in operation and profound knowledge of the behaviour of machines and machine components has led SKF to develop mechanical [...]
Condition monitoring,Maintenance,Monitoring and diagnostic,
Engineering Competence

Grounded sonic boom

Man, machine and hybrid bearings roared past a historic milestone when the British ThrustSSC and driver Andy Green set the first supersonic land [...]
Bearings,Cars,