NSK ANNOUNCES MAJOR
UPDATE TO THE BEARING
DOCTOR MOBILE APP
When a rolling bearing is damaged
during machine operation, the entire
machine or equipment may seize or
malfunction.
Since bearings that fail prematurely
or unexpectedly cause trouble, it
is important to be able to identify
and predict failure beforehand,
if possible, so that preventive
measures can be adopted.
Enter Bearing Doctor.
KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:
- Diagnose bearing damage.
Learn about modes and causes
of damage, and view concrete
examples.
SKF OPENS THE
DOOR TO AN
ENGINEERING
TREASURE
TROVE
New advanced simulation software
from SKF gives customers access to
a powerful engineering tool used by
its own application specialists.
SKF SimPro Expert is an advanced
simulation software tool developed
in-house by SKF to maximise
support for, and co-operation with,
its customers. SimPro Expert gives
customers greater freedom of choice
and flexibility when incorporating
SKF bearings into their machine
designs, but more particularly it
gives them the power to evaluate
the performance of SKF bearing
arrangements in minute detail across
a wide range of applications and
service conditions, in the virtual
world.
Effectively placing the breadth
of SKF engineering knowledge
into the hands of the customer,
SimPro Expert gives the user
an extremely accurate means of
evaluating bearing performance
in any given machine model. Its
enhanced application modelling
capabilities and detailed SKF bearing
geometry, performance data and
in combination with more then 100
years of developing bearing theories
verified and validated by its extensive
testing capabilities and real field
experience, gives the user a world
leading engineering tool.
As the software is practically
the same as that used by SKF
engineers, SimPro Expert allows
seamless interaction between the
customer and the SKF Application
Engineering team. Moreover,
it encourages the customer to
tackle more complex engineering
challenges, confident in the
knowledge that the support and
guidance of SKF application
engineering is ready to hand.
With the tool at their desks,
customers gain greater flexibility
in their design processes, and the
ability to work faster and more
accurately on a particular project.
Once a model has been created
by a customer and some initial
simulations run, it can be transmitted
to SKF application engineering for
further discussion and refinement.
SimPro Expert covers many
different aspects of rolling bearings
in machine design and is able to
simulate a very broad range of
bearing operating parameters and
in-service conditions, including
misalignment, load and moment,
friction, raceway contact stresses,
fatigue life, lubrication and much
more. The software creates models
that take into account temperature,
speed, lubrication type, contamination
levels, material properties and
so on; it also enables the customer
to run 3D system animations of
these models.
SimPro Expert is a powerful software
application for machine designers,
which provides access to decades
of accumulated SKF engineering
knowledge, where it is needed, and
at the time it is needed.
- Learn to protect against premature
failure.
- Listen to sound clips of different
modes of bearing damage to
identify issues by ear.
NEW FEATURES IN THIS
UPDATE:
- New languages: French,
Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and
Korean (in addition to English).
- Added new photos for some
modes of damage (flaking,
scouring, cage damage, pitting,
wear, mounting flaws, discolouration).
DOWNLOAD THE NEW
BEARING DOCTOR
APP TODAY. FIND IT
BY SEARCHING ‘NSK
BEARING DOCTOR’ ON
THE APP STORE OR
GOOGLE PLAY.
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