Sealed-for-life bearings account for only a small proportion of all bearings in use, more than 14 per cent of all premature bearing failures are attributed to contamination problems.
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At one mine site, the replacement rate for four 44-mm ropes was extended from an average 18.5 months to 43 months. At another mine, life cycles of four 43-mm x 2073 meter ropes were extended from an average 8 months to 12 months.
Two common causes of electrical equipment failure are component seizure and degraded lubricant.Component 1) Seizure Lubricant…2) Degradation…
Single-point lubricators are also an excellent option if the bearings are in an area that is difficult to access or if a constant supply of grease is required.
Preventive and Predictive Maintenance are vastly superior to the third alternative — reactive maintenance………………….
In the steel industry the access to many lubrication points is burdensome or dangerous. Manual lubrication is inconvenient due to a large variety of different lubricants and applications.
Corrosive plant environments are among the most serious threats to many industries today, contributing to extensive production downtime and exorbitant maintenance costs.
While every type of rolling bearing in rotating equipment offers the expectation of a certain service life, sometimes the life can be threatened for any number of reasons along the way.
A lubrication program is low-hanging fruit for operations looking to cut downtime and maintenance costs
In this article, a case will be made for automatic lubrication as a true necessity, rather than an option. Here are just five of many reasons why automatic lubrication is so valuable.