When it All Comes Back to the Bearing

Identifying an efficient bearing solution is complex. It needs expert knowledge, experience, and a carefully planned approach to ensure increased productivity of machines and plant. The NSK AIP Value Cycle is a standardised, tried, tested and proven process, based on best practice and easily applied to your applications and processes. 

An eye for detail

Sometimes problems can go undetected for years: driving up costs and reducing profitability. Identifying the factors that contribute to high production costs takes an expert eye for detail. 

NSK experts look at your manufacturing process and choice of bearings, to assess the areas likely to offer you the best returns. This Process Mapping approach – targeted at your production line, stores, or workshop environment – will produce a comprehensive review highlighting opportunities for improvement.  

Based on the plant and machine condition data collected, NSK can recommend the optimum bearing solution for you. They can also provide information on machine component design, available part numbers and running conditions. This type of Application Review can support machinery upgrading or redesign, and also helps with conversion of OEM-specific part numbers. 

Where bearings have worn prematurely or failed there are usually several reasons. Using state-of-the art bearing failure analysis, lubricant analysis and dimensional measurement equipment, NSK can identify the root cause of problems and make recommendations for improving bearing choice and machine design.  

Expertise on tap

NSK’s worldwide expertise covers many industries and sectors. But you don’t have to rely on it alone. NSK also offers training to enable your own engineering team to strengthen their bearing knowledge, tailored to your needs – often based on the information gathered during Process Mapping. 

Whether that’s bearing fitting and maintenance, diagnosing failure modes or selecting the best bearing specification, NSK training options can help you to develop in-house expertise to reduce your bearing-related costs.

So whether you’re experiencing unplanned maintenance issues, or you want to train your production and maintenance teams in new skills, the NSK Added Value Asset Improvement Programme can provide the bearing engineering expertise you want to acquire. And save you time, money, and energy, reducing your overall total cost of ownership.