MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
ADVANTAGES ROLL IN FOR ENGINEERED BEARING MANUFACTURERS THANKS TO EXCETEK WIRE CUTTING EDM TECHNOLOGY
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ith a wealth of CNC Wire Cutting EDM technology and experience, Excetek
has a portfolio of products that are designed and built to support the global leaders producing engineered bearing technology. While the company’s standard machine range is designed to meet the many challenges faced by most industry sectors, it also has the technical expertise and flexibility to adapt its machine tools such that they are configured to overcome the specific challenges within the bearing industry.
While the wheel may be humanity’s
greatest physical invention, it didn’t really reach its full potential until someone put a hole in the middle and popped a few wheels together on a shaft or axle. Fast forward to today’s highly developed and demanding environment and it is the bearing that provides the central support to access the true potential of the wheel. The production of precision bearings is a global business, and the intricate requirements of the key players are only addressed by knowledgeable and flexible machine tool builders such as Excetek, with its extensive range of CNC wire EDM machines. By ensuring reliable motion across
countless applications, from power generation to robotics and mass transit systems to individual methods of people movement, precision bearings are the unsung heroes of our industrial age. Companies at the heart of this
technology operate from global manufacturing facilities. Here, experts in their fields manufacture a broad range of sizes, rolling elements, and proprietary designs, offering unmatched reliability and performance. One particularly challenging design is the production
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of split roller bearings, a product that offers significant advantages especially when it comes to MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) where access to fit replacement bearings could be compromised and lead times are crucial. The applications for split roller bearings
are vast, from wind power generation to conveyors for mining aggregates, and marine vessels to automation and robotics. The opportunities are almost endless. Although some designers will specify a split roll bearing during the manufacturing stage, historically solid roller bearings were predominantly used. Of course, many applications will be swapping out solid bearings for split bearings in the future because of the ease of fitting. Situations where customers have had to take the roof off a building are not unheard of, with hire cranes required just to lift out the plant with bearing issues. You do not need to do any of this with a split bearing, you simply take the bearing to the shaft; we are talking hours rather than days to replace and that is a key benefit. While the product maybe more expensive the downtime is significantly reduced. The diameter of split bearings
ranges from tens of millimetres up to
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