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Walking Beam, Material Handling

NSK Success Story - Walking Beam: A well known British steel company asked NSK to provide an alternative bearing design for prematurely failing rolls on the walking beam system. NSK modification helped to increase the calculated bearing lifetime to 83.000 hours or 7,2 years.

Vibration and Contamination in a Vibrating Screen

NSK Success Stories - A customer in Central America, in the Quarrying and Mining industry, was experiencing reliability problems due to recurring bearing failures in its vibrating screens. The existing bearings failed after only 8 months.

Vibrating Screen

NSK Success Story - A quarry in Central America was experiencing bearing failures every 6 months on its vibrating screens. NSK evaluated the failure conditions and recommended the VS series bearings made of HTF (High-Tough) steel.

Bleed Shackle Roller

NSK Industries - Bleed Shackle Roller: An animal slaughter production line was experiencing regular failures of Deep Groove Ball Bearings used in a bleed shackle roller application which is used to transport animals along the production line.

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.

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

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.

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.

Hot Strip Mill

NSK Industries - Hot Strip Mill: A large manufacturer of steel wanted to increase replacement intervals for 4-row Tapered Roller Bearings used in the hot strip mill. Due to severe operation conditions, standard bearings provided 1.400 hours of operation.

Paper Roll

NSK Success Stories - Paper Industry - Paper Roll: Significant cost saving could be realised, as machine downtime and maintenance were eliminated

Press

NSK Success Stories - Food & Beverage: The extruder machine of a pet food manufacturer suffered from bearing failures every 10 to 12 weeks. NSK recommended to change the lubricant to a high viscosity oil and propsed to change to NSKHPS Spherical Roller Bearings (EA series)

Conveyor Pulley

NSK Success Stories - Conveyor Pulley: At an iron ore port facility in Australia, a bend pulley on a ship loading conveyor was determined to have only 6 months operating life.

Jaw Crusher Main Bearings

NSK Success Stories - Jaw Crusher Main Bearings: A lubrication study and optimization with shaft & housings modifications, training & supervision on NSK bearings installation were provided along with a heat stabilized bearings up to 200 °C degrees.