All articles for "Research and development"

Engineering Competence

Breath of fresh air for automobile air conditioners

Customer demand has led to the development of a range of double row angular contact ball bearings for clutches in automobile air-conditioning [...]
Cars,Research and development,
Engineering Competence

At the boundary between lubrication and wear (part two)

The first part of this article was published in Evolution 2/98. This is the second and last part.For more than 100 years, researchers have looked at [...]
Lubrication Solutions,Research and development,
Engineering Competence

Hard coating for heavy bearing duty

Diamond-like carbon coatings combine hardness with low friction, thus helping to eliminate wear and increase bearing service life.Hardness combined [...]
Research and development,
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

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

Engineering polymers for designer cages

Polymer materials are increasingly replacing metal in bearing cage design. The factors behind this growth are linked to improvements in engineering [...]
Research and development,
Engineering Competence

Working at high speed

Grinding, milling and drilling are examples of operations where applications require simultaneous rotational and axial movement. For these [...]
Engineering consultancy,Machine Tools,Research and development,Spindles,