Printing is an inherently precise process that places specific demands on the components that go into the construction of a modern printing machine. Steve Lacey outlines the factors to consider when specifying bearings for sheet-fed and web-fed printing machines.
Bearings are key components in dry vacuum pumps; their reliability and operating life have a significant effect on pump operating costs. Nick Dowding discusses how bearings can play a pivotal role in reducing whole life costs of these pumps.
Thanks to expertise garnered building space telescopes powerful enough to see exoplanets, large wind turbines are now generating clean power without making a racket.
Schaeffler has developed an angular measuring system suitable for direct-driven, highly dynamic, high precision rotary axes in machine tools. The system incorporates an inductive (absolute) angular measuring system integrated in a rotary table bearing.
Phil Burge describes an innovative ‘micro-dosing’ system that can help to deliver accurate quantities of lubricant – in tiny amounts – to high-precision bearings for applications such as high-speed spindles.