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Total cost beats lowest unit price

A product’s price tag might show the lowest price, but when was the last time you looked at what it costs to use that part in man-hours, maintenance [...]
Other products and services,Research and theory,

Drilling for productivity

SKF design engineering improves performance of mud bearings.
Design,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Other products and services,

Engineering in miniature

There are many novel and existing applications that can reap the rewards of SKF’s customized mini-spindle design services. SKF Focused Products is a [...]
Design,Other industry,Spindles,

Long-term grease lubrication in printing machines

Highly tailored and customer-specific solutions for long-term grease lubrication in printing machines are the wave of the future. Grease lubrication [...]
Lubricants,Other industry,Reliability,

A war against wear

The huge excavators and conveyors in RWE Power’s opencast lignite mines are not just enormous, they’re clever too. And the cleverer they are, the [...]
Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Other products and services,Reliability,

Pioneers in maintenance strategy

Improving an oil refinery’s efficiency is a complex task. But LUKoil Neftochim Bourgas in Bulgaria has worked out how to reduce maintenance and [...]
Condition monitoring,Maintenance,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,

A diesel engine for a new era

JCB’s hard-working yellow machines and the signature logo created from the initials of company founder Joseph Cyril Bamford have become [...]
Other industry,Other products and services,Other services,Seals,

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