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Dough Prove

NSK Industries - Dough Prove: A Tortilla Wrap manufacturer was experiencing short service life on its pillow block bearing units mounted in the multiple belt dough prove section of the process line.

NSK Industries - Baby Leaf Harvester: A processor of food products harvests baby leaf products for sale to leading supermarkets. Its leaf harvester machine had a variety of low cost mounted unit bearings to support shafts of various sizes.

Machine Centre

NSK Industries - Machine Centre: A worldwide manufacturer of automotive components was having significant unplanned stoppages due to the failure of the Ball Screws in the Machining Center.

Slurry Pump

NSK Success Story - Cement Industry - NSK Angular Contact Ball Bearings with HTF Material for doubled lifetime

Motor Spindle

NSK Industries - Motor Spindle: improvement of bearing performance and reliability, significant reduction in manufacturing costs

Slurry Disc Harrow

NSK Success Stories - Slurry disc harrow: NSK's maintenance free Agri Hub solution gives extended lifetime due to its heavy duty sealing and lifetime greasing pack.

Conveyors

NSK Success Stories - Automotive Production: With NSK's CMS measurement, the customer was able to clearly predict bearing failures and to avoid unplanned production line stoppages on a larger scale. This subject helped to reduce maintenance cost.

Cold Rolling Mill - Steel Strip

NSK Industries - Cold Rolling Mill: NSK 4-row WTF (Water-Tough) Bearings for a better resistance to damages caused by debris ingress.

Tandem Cold Mill

Success Stories - Tandem Cold Mill: NSK engineers were consulted to review the mill design and they proposed the use of sealed clean KVS bearings with grease lubrication. These were installed and after 1 year of operation the performance excellent.

Oven Fan Unit

Success Story - Oven Fan Unit: NSK proposed Plummer Blocks with high capacity Spherical Roller Bearings and Labyrinth seals, and recommended the correct bearing location and lubrication.

Rod Mill Chocks

NSK Success Stories - Rod Mill Chocks: Correct fitting of bearing and spacer instructions were given to the customer to maximise bearing life and avoid failures.

Continuous Casting Machine - Production of shaped Sections

NSK Industries - Continuous Casting Machine: A steel manufacturer could achieve a significant cost saving due to NSK's SWR Spherical Roller Bearings

Milling

Success Story - Milling - A manufacturer of insulation material is producing Styrofoam on milling machines including conveyor systems. Maintenance is carried out with standard tools. The company required an investigation about the practices on the assembly and disassembly of the rolling bearings.

Extrusion blow molding machine

NSK Success Stories - Extrusion blow molding machine: The customer experienced many failures on several machines. A trial was conducted using NSK Linear Guides and significant improvement were demonstrated.

Rolling Mills - Back-up rollers

NSK Success Stories - Rolling Mills: In an European steelworks, the back-up rollers of a competitor failed after a short time in the test phase. Initially, the project was awarded to the competition.

Dust Extraction Fan - Coal Dust

NSK Industries - Dust Extraction Fan: NSKHPS Spherical Roller Bearings in combination with SNN Plummer Blocks and labyrinth seals for increased productivity and reduced maintenance costs

Centrifugal Pump

NSK Industries - Centrifugal Pump: A large energy producer (electricity + heats) faced frequently failures on their water recirculation centrifugal pumps. NSK jointly with the local distributor performed a bearing failure investigation on site.

Industrial Fan Units

NSK Industries - Industrial Fan Units: An energy producer in the UK was experiencing frequent breakdowns due to bearing failure within two industrial fan units. The critical assets were operating 24/7. On average the bearings on each fan unit failed every 3 months.

Ceramic Roof Tile Manufacturer

NSK Industries - Ceramic Roof Tile Manufacturer: Reduced running friction resulting in reduced actuator pressure

Underground Train Traction Motor

NSK Industries - Underground Train: An overhaul and maintenance company for underground trains in the UK had a requirement to reduce service costs of traction motor bearings by increasing the time between overhauls whilst maintaining reliability.