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Installing condition monitoring devices on flood pumps and motors can provide advanced warning of any impending bearing failures By installing vibration monitoring and automatic lubricators to pumps and motors, Schaeffler’s Belgian custom...
According to the TUC, the average rail commute in the UK takes an average of 2 hours and 11 minutes, each day. Also add to the equation that, in 2018, more than one third of trains failed to arrive at stations on time due to technical fault...
02/08/2020 The Customs Service of Lianyungang County (Jiangsu Province, China) has detained 40 bearing sets with the SKF logo printed on the outside of the packages. The bearings were planned to be exported. ...
A jack-up rig is a type of offshore mobile platform that consists of a buoyant hull fitted with some movable legs, capable of raising its hull over the surface of the sea. The buoyant hull enables transportation of the unit and all attac...
Astronomers and astrophysicists researching outer space depend on high-performance telescopes. Even here, Schaeffler’s expertise and technology have an important part to play. Schaeffler helped to equip one of the world’s largest reflec...
On May 18, the customs service of the Chinese Shatujiao port conducted a special operation against a suspect in smuggling, transporting industrial bearings in the cab of a car through the cargo channel of the river port. The car was detaine...
On February 18 2020, an Airbus A319-100, which belonged to Air Canada and operated a flight from New York (USA) to Toronto (Canada) with 120 passengers and 5 crew members, made an emergency landing at the destination airport. When landing i...
Reliability-as-a-Service for Proactive Assessment of Bearing Risk As an essential element of bearing service life, lubricant chemistry has a profound effect on the reliability of rotating equipment. To increase the reliability of these cru...
HeavyDuty rotary encoders from Baumer Hübner are the “original”. More than half a century ago, Baumer Hübner developed this type of particularly reliable and robust rotary encoders. Since then they have been used in all situations whe...
In March the colleagues at thyssenkrupp rothe erde reached a milestone in their production history: the manufacturing of the 1,000th multi-megawatt rotor bearing. We took a closer look at this component of wind turbines, which is so importa...