All articles for "Bearing failure"

Engineering Competence
Enviro500 bus from Alexander Dennis Limited

A comfortable ride

Engineering expertise from SKF is helping the UK’s largest bus and coach manufacturer build vehicles for challenging operating environments around [...]
Bearing failure,Bearing life,Bearings,Integrated maintenance solutions,Research and development,
Engineering Competence
Bearings in a continuous caster

Remanufacturing bearings

For many medium- to large-size bearings in a number of demanding industries, remanufacturing can offer considerable benefits, including lower [...]
Bearing failure,Bearing life,Bearings,Remanufacturing,
Engineering Competence
Record-setting sealed bearing

Record-setting sealed bearing

SKF’s bearing factory in Gothenburg, Sweden, has produced the company’s largest sealed spherical roller bearing to date. The 241/900 spherical roller [...]
Bearing failure,Bearing life,Bearings,Mining and mineral processing,
Engineering Competence
Typical extended white etching crack network; large size spherical roller bearing.

White etching cracks – a consequence, not a root cause of bearing failure

Bearings are critical machine components for carrying load and transmitting motion. The challenge of ever-increasing power density from modern [...]
Bearing failure,Bearings,
Engineering Competence
Reloading Russia’s railways

Reloading Russia’s railways

In just five years, United Wagon Company has used new designs, new technologies and a comprehensive, vertically integrated approach to become a [...]
Bearing failure,Bearings,Remanufacturing services,
Manufacturing
Fighting counterfeits

Fighting counterfeits

SKF has recently completed legal proceedings against a dealer of counterfeit bearings in Greece. The proceedings were initiated in 2009, after some [...]
Authorised distributor,Bearing failure,Failure modes,
Industry

Training to troubleshoot

The oil and gas industry places special demands on pumps in its production and pipeline systems. Reliability and durability are musts, as is the [...]
Bearing failure,Electricity,Reliability,Training,