Today's customers demand machine tools that are precise and durable. Bearing systems play a major role in determining accuracy and life. Many of the latest advances in the design and development of ...

Adding new features and capabilities to bearings improves productivity and lowers costs. Bearings have long been used to reduce friction, support loads, locate shafts, and reinforce system rigidity.

Bearings define speed, load-carrying capacity, precision, and stiffness, and they contribute to the spindle operating temperature, vibration, and noise during operation. It wasn’t so long ago that a ...

This is the third and final report in a series, Selecting, Configuring and Lubricating Tapered Roller Bearings for High-Speed Machine Tool Spindles. The first installment is Selecting Tapered Roller ...

The trend toward energy-efficient bearings has produced a shift in the traditional design focus of increasing capacity to a higher priority on reducing friction. For specific bearing types and key ...

The Large Bearing Testing Machine has been developed and primarily used for commercial testing of large bearings. It is capable of applying 1,600 kips (7,117 kN) vertical load, and lateral ...

Schaeffler has patented a pivot cradle bearing for axial piston machines, featuring a bent cage segment that guides rolling bodies. The design includes a synchronization device with a pivoting lever ...