Mechanical Components Features

Keeping vibration analysis happy

Implementing condition monitoring can reduce the frequency and cost of equipment maintenance.

Pizza plant saves over €15,000 after switch to NSK bearings

A manufacturer of frozen pizzas was experiencing failures every four weeks on the belt tensioner serving one of its food conveyors.

Hybrid bearings: a developing technology

Hybrid bearings perform well under poorly lubricated and contaminated conditions. While they are much less prone to surface distress than their all-steel counterparts, imperfections that may pre-exist in the material or on the surface of a hybrid bearing’s ceramic rolling elements can potentially compromise performance.

Students learn from failure ready for 2019 Submarine Races

A team from the University of Southampton working on submarine technology is receiving engineer support and engineering-grade plastic bearings through the igus’ YES (Young Engineers Support) programme. The Southampton University Human Powered Submarine Society (SUHPS) is a group of students that design, build and test human-powered submarines to compete internationally.

More Mechanical Components Features Features

Springing to the service of the manufacturing industry(18/12/2018)

With our centenary now upon us, Lee Spring is proud of our close to 100 year tradition and to reflect on the considerable growth in availability of springs and development in spring technology during that period.
When a catalogue spring just will not do the job you have in mind(18/12/2018)

Industrial springs are often seen as just a component or forming part of a sub assembly. For the potential user or equipment designer there appears to be a simple choice to start the selection process.
igus new-starter fixes classic 4x4 as part of his initiation(18/12/2018)

As part of the training programme for all new sales recruits at igus, managing director Matthew Aldridge sets a project.
Circular economy(29/11/2018)

Remanufacturing bearings saves money, improves sustainability and can even boost long-term equipment reliability, Phil Burge, Marketing and Communications Manager at SKF explains.
Super precision bearings for space and satellite applications(29/11/2018)

Increasing numbers of smaller, more cost effective telecommunications satellites are being launched into the Earth’s orbit, which has led to a growing need for high precision, high reliability bearings to support on-board sub-systems such as reaction wheels and other critical mechanisms, says Gary Hughes, Product Engineering Manager at Schaeffler subsidiary, The Barden Corporation (UK) Ltd.