All articles for "Machinery and equipment"

Italian spindle acquisition

In April, SKF acquired Italy’s Gamfior, which manufactures high speed motorized spindles and precision ball screws. Adding Gamfior to earlier [...]
Machinery and equipment,Reliability,Spindles,

Monitoring without wires

SKF has developed a wireless system for online monitoring of machine condition in rotating equipment. The system is targeted for the pulp and paper, [...]
Condition monitoring,Cylindrical roller thrust bearings,Machinery and equipment,Metal industry,Pulp and paper,Reliability,Simulation and software,
Engineering Competence

Bearings that heal themselves

The VU091 bearing is a new SKF-patented bearing design that has a built-in capability to reduce wear and fatigue-promoting stress concentrations on [...]
Angular contact ball bearings,Deep groove ball bearings,Machinery and equipment,Toroidal roller bearings,

Bearing unit for gearboxes

SKF has developed a bearing carrier unit for main and layshaft bearings in gearboxes. The unit decouples the bearing from the housing, thus giving a [...]
Cars,Machinery and equipment,Other products and services,

New handbook for industrial gearbox design

SKF has issued an interactive CD-ROM titled Electronic Handbook – Rolling Bearings in Industrial Gearboxes. The handbook includes a number of [...]
Machinery and equipment,Simulation and software,
Engineering Competence

Accurate drives for positioning tables

  The need for accuracy combined with speed is encouraging the adoption of novel drive concepts for positioning table systems.Demands made on driven [...]
Machinery and equipment,

Get into top gear

Höfler Maschinenbau has developed machinery for grinding gears before they are put into operation; in the process it has developed into the sort of [...]
Machinery and equipment,Spindles,