All articles for "Maintenance"

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All set for a good life

Truck hub units have the potential to keep trucks on the road longer, with less downtime. Fleet operator Hare Express decided to try them out. With [...]
Bearings,Hub units,Lubrication Services,Maintenance,Seals,Transportation & logistics,Trucks,
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Simple shaft alignment

SKF has launched a new shaft alignment tool, TMEA 1, for alignment of rotating machinery. It enables the alignment of two horizontal shafts with high [...]
Engineering tools,Maintenance,
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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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The maintenance-free universal joint

The universal joint for commercial vehicle propeller shafts is essentially a specially-designed grease-lubricated needle roller bearing. This new [...]
Maintenance,Seals,Transportation & logistics,Trucks,