All articles for "Mining, extraction of oil and gas"

Drilling for productivity

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

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,

Smart Housing – the integrated sensor solution

Smart Housing is a way of integrating sensors into a housing to allow monitoring and control of critical bearing applications. It is a robust system [...]
Bearing housings,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Other industry,Sensorised bearings,

Maintenance in the Mine

From infrared cameras to ultrasonic devices, Phelps Dodge has set in place a maintenance program that some consider to be among the best in the [...]
Maintenance,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,
Engineering Competence

Fault detection for mining and mineral processing equipment

Fault detection is a technique being applied in the mining commodities industry to lower operating costs and improve machine reliability and [...]
Condition monitoring,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Other products and services,Reliability,Spherical roller bearings,

Telecom brings machines closer

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, one of several milestones in the development of communications technology in the second half [...]
Condition monitoring,Mining, extraction of oil and gas,Reliability,Simulation and software,