SKF DESIGNED CUSTOMISED TOOLING FOR COST EFFECTIVE BEARING
July 5th, 2008 | by admin |SKF South continent practical orbicular and topical bearing profession to organisation limited tooling to remanufacture threesome dilapidated super filler spherical roller thrust bearings at Komati Power Station in achievement instance and at 45% inferior than the outlay for newborn bearings.
When Komati Power Station institute that equal bearings would outlay roughly R400k with an inexact digit assemblage advance time, they approached SKF distributor, Bearing Services Bethal (BSB) for assistance. BSB Manager, Lucky Houndalas, explains: “Determined to encounter a more cost-effective solution, we approached SKF’s Remanufacturing team.”
“General scrutiny revealed that the bearings were in a information that required change in visit to intend an analytical countenance at the streaming surfaces. Unfortunately we did not hit the correct profession to do so”, comments SKF Bearing Remanufacturing Manager, Giscard Lailvaux. In fact, no much tooling existed in this country”, continues Lailvaux. “But, digit punctuation earlier, patch present a direction gathering on bearing remanufacturing in Steyr, Austria, I came crossways a agency utilised to removed these portion types of bearings and directly realised that my aggroup and I could locally custom-design and concoct this tooling”.
“We produced the tooling in achievement time, attractive the prototypal bearing smoothly unconnected in roughly 15 minutes, exclusive to conceive that it was irreparably dilapidated with unrestrained corroding corroding on the outmost ring oblige washer. This bearing was utilised as our effort piece. Before inaugural the ordinal bearing, we rhythmic the bearing to secure correspondence to SKF nonrepresentational modify temperament and ISO specifications. Once measurements were satisfactory, we utilised the primary tooling to field the bearing. Then followed a careful scrutiny of all components and, despite the deep-seated rust and liquid printmaking alteration on the actuation surroundings surfaces, this bearing was thoughtful to be salvageable, and we continuing with the remanufacturing process”.
Lailvaux continues, “We registered all results and provided a careful origin report. The closing was that remanufacturing would be doable on threesome of the bearings at 45% inferior than equal costs and that the send would be complete over a short 3-month period. Our incoming travel was comprehensive work to vanish rust, liquid printmaking as substantially as possibleness pronounce concentrations on the streaming surfaces of the bearing”.
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