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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.