All articles for "Bearing life"

Engineering Competence

Why the world revolves thanks to tribology

SKF’s sponsorship of the Fifth World Tribology Congress (WTC), held in Turin, Italy, reflects the importance of this science to the world of bearings [...]
Bearing life,Engineering tools,Lubrication Solutions,Research and development,
Digital Technology

Northern node

Cooperation between SKF and Luleå University of Technology in Sweden is yielding significant bene­fits for all involved. SKF is able to explore new [...]
Bearing life,Bearings,Design,Railways,Reliability,Research and development,
Manufacturing
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Wider SKF Solution Factory network

SKF has extended its services further across the globe, with five new SKF Solution Factory facilities that opened in 2012 and with two more so far in [...]
Bearing life,Bearings,Design,Maintenance,Reliability,
Engineering Competence

New launches

1 CPMA and CPMB telescopic pillars have been introduced by SKF. The pillars offer a complete, optimized lifting solution for a range of medical [...]
Bearing life,Cars,Condition monitoring,Design,Electrical,
Engineering Competence

Premature bearing failures in wind gearboxes and white etching cracks (WEC)

Wind turbine gearboxes are subjected to a wide variety of operating conditions, some of which may push the bearings beyond their limits. Damage may [...]
Bearing life,Cylindrical roller bearings,Electricity, gas and water supply,Maintenance,Reliability,Research and theory,Spherical roller bearings,Tapered roller bearings,Wind,
Manufacturing

Cleaner cleaning

Two SKF engineers have invented a method for cleaning components in industrial production using rainwater as the cleaning agent.Günter Strasser, head [...]
Bearing life,Research and development,
Engineering Competence

Understanding and preventing surface distress

In many industrial applications that have lubricated rolling/sliding contacts such as rolling bearings, power density has steadily increased over [...]
Bearing life,Research and development,Service,