SKF Maintenance Assessment

What’s it all about?

The three-week course, beginning with a short introduction into bearing lifecycles, is aimed at apprentice level employees seeking to develop their skills and knowledge of core bearings and lubrication principles, providing the essential building blocks needed to install and maintain bearings, maximising potential, improving overall productivity and minimising Total Cost of Ownership.

The course covers the following activities

Session 1: Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Introduction to bearing lifecycle

Every bearing has a certain service life potential. However, research has shown that, for various reasons, not every bearing achieves it. Important stages which have a major impact on a bearing service life can be identified over the bearing’s lifecycle. These stages are selecting and buying a bearing, mounting, lubrication, alignment, basic condition monitoring and dismounting.  

• Primary functions of a bearing, and the component parts of a standard bearing. 
• Common bearing types and their main characteristics
• Basic referencing  

Mounting

Approximately 16% of all premature bearing failures are a result of poor fitting or using incorrect mounting techniques. Selecting the correct mounting procedure for your application will help you extend your bearing’s service life and reduce costs resulting from premature bearing failure, as well as potential wider damage to the rotating equipment.   

Dismounting

When dismounting bearings, care must be taken not to damage other machine components, such as the shaft or housing, as damage can compromise the machine’s efficiency and lifetime. Individual applications may require mechanical, heat or hydraulic dismounting methods and tools to allow safe, correct and efficient bearing dismounting. 

Session 2: Tuesday 9th March 2021

Lubrication

Correct bearing lubrication is an essential step in reaching the bearing’s service lifetime. 50% of premature bearing failure is the result of poor lubrication and/or contamination. Incorrect lubrication will cause both high maintenance costs and health & safety issues due to slippery work floors or hard-to-reach places. 

Session 3: Tuesday 16th March 2021

Alignment

It’s a fact. Shaft misalignment is a major contributor to rotating machinery breakdowns. Accurately aligning shafts can prevent a large number of such breakdowns and reduce unplanned downtime that can result in a loss of production. In today’s challenging environment of reducing costs and optimising assets, the necessity of accurate shaft alignment is greater than ever.

Basic Condition Monitoring 

To help ensure long bearing service life, it is important to determine the condition of machinery and bearings while in operation. With a good predictive maintenance program, your maintenance staff will no longer be in the firefighting mode, machine downtime will be reduced and overall maintenance costs will decrease

Venue

Each of the three sessions will be conducted via Microsoft Teams, with invites sent out once registration has been completed. Please note that each session is scheduled to start at 2pm lasting approximately 90 minutes.

Confirm Attendance

Please take a couple of minutes to confirm your attendance, by completing the form on the right hand side, please note registration will close on Friday 26th February 2021.

Registration is now open

If you would like to register your interest, please complete the below from by Friday 26th February 2021