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NSK bearings offer 4.5 times more life on bakery oven fan

A leading UK bakery was experiencing regular, unexpected stoppages due to the premature failure of pillow-block ball-bearing mounted units fitted to the recirculation fan of a high-temperature oven. However, switching to NSK plummer blocks with high-capacity spherical roller bearings and labyrinth seals increased service life by a factor of 4.5, delivering annual cost savings of €34,907.

SCHUNK News

FULLY AUTOMATABLE, TOOL-FREE JAW QUICK-CHANGE

It takes a maximum of 60 seconds until a conventional 3-jaw chuck with SCHUNK RAPIDO clamping inserts is retooled. For granting such a speedy jaw change, the RAPIDO clamping inserts must be put onto the base or intermediate jaws and moved backwards until they snap in. The exchange can be done manually or in case of lathe chucks with integrated base jaws, it can be done fully automatic with a robot.

Real Time Systems News

RTS Hypervisor: Full support for INtime RTOS

TenAsys and Real-Time Systems team up to greatly improve secure system consolidation and determinism.

Continental News

Continental Develops Sensor-based Inspection Service for Conveyor Belt Systems

Technology company Continental has developed a service solution for monitoring conveyor belt systems to permit early identification of weak points along a belt conveyor system before damage resulting in unscheduled and cost-intensive downtimes occurs.

Mayahtt News

Digitalization and Simulation at the North Pole

Santa’s new Remote Reindeer Workforce (RRW) will be launching this year, providing a huge uplift for the North Pole’s distribution operations.

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