Are bearings making you spin your wheels?
The industry of wheels turn on bearings, so why do the wheels often vibrate, clatter, squeak, drag and overheat? Bearings can fail for lots of reasons. Most failures (as shown in Figure 1) are related to lubrication and contamination, but myths and misconceptions handed fromwheel bearings, one generation of maintenance engineers to the next help […]
Bearing It All: Ceramic Bearings
There’s been a lot of buzz in the bike industry about ceramic bearings in the past few years, maybe more buzz than any other new product. Let’s face it, the allure of going faster with less energy is appealing to almost anyone. On the other hand, you can pay a lot for that free speed, […]
Forging, Ring Rolling, Open-Die Forging, Hammer Forging
Click Below to learn through video about the forging process in bearing manufacturing.
Taper to be at BearingNet Miami Conference
The BearingNet User Meetings are a world renowned Networking event which brings together distributors from all over the world. Having held 9 meetings in Europe, BearingNet brought the meetings to the US in 2012. They have now established their meeting in the US with over 150 delegates joining last year in Atlanta. This year the meeting is […]
Raid against counterfeit bearing workshops in China – Watch the video!
Follow the Chinese authorities in a raid against a counterfeit bearing workshop. In this video you can see how low cost bearings are branded to look like high quality premium bearings. Even small scale operations use using sophisticated equipment to mark the products to look like original products. The poor working conditions of the under-age […]
Transparency Market Research: Bearing Market is Expected to Reach USD 118.21 billion in 2020
Transparency Market Research releases a new market research report “Bearing Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 – 2020” to add to its collection of research reports. Albany, New York (PRWEB) According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research “Bearing Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, […]
Schaeffler opens its first manufacturing facility in Russia
The global technology company Schaeffler inaugurated its first manufacturing facility in Russia. The Schaeffler Group will deliver high-quality products to domestic and overseas automobile manufacturers and the railway industry from its new production plant in Ulyanovsk. The city’s mayor Marina Bespalova was in attendance at the opening ceremony together with representatives of Ulyanovsk’s regional administration […]
Spinning Ahead on a Lubrication-Free Ball Bearing
Ball bearings, in use for over five centuries in a vast array of applications, provide actuation by rolling two surfaces over a layer of encaged spheres. The spheres are free to roll in place within their separate compartments, sliding the two surfaces past one another. The mechanism must be greased to reduce friction in each […]
How Bearings Work
Have you ever wondered how things like inline skate wheels and electric motors spin so smoothly and quietly? The answer can be found in a neat little machine called a bearing. The bearing makes many of the machines we use every day possible. Without bearings, we would be constantly replacing parts that wore out from […]
How the Right Bearings Can Improve Your Manufacturing Process
A good production process is a smooth production process. A smooth production process is a more profitable one. While it’s impossible to avoid every production problem before it happens, there are steps you can take to reduce your risk. One of the most overlooked areas of opportunity in this regard is bearing selection. This article […]
