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...
Spie GmbH are responsible for the repair, maintenance and refurbishment of machinery for a leading train manufacturer in Germany. They were faced with a difficult problem: an old DUO welding system was broken down more than it was in operat...
When a factory is in shutdown, sitting still shouldn’t be the first option 1 of 4 Injuries in sport are inevitable, but the greatest sporting comebacks haven’t been achieved by simply accepting the circumstances and waiting for recovery...
Author Cinthya Piannell RKB Bearing Industries – Department of Advanced Software Engineering With a business model based on a vertically integrated organization, which goes from the provisioning of raw materials up to the after sales ser...