Bearings 2.0: What the future holds

SKF’s global technical press days to outline how bearing technology is speeding up industrial digitalization and creating new business models.

Gothenburg, Sweden, 17 September 2020: Entitled ‘Bearings 2.0: What the future holds’, SKF’s virtual technical press days will take place on 7-8 October, 2020. Expert speakers will address industry trends and illustrate how SKF’s innovations in bearing and rotating machinery will change the way end-users and manufacturers operate.

Both days will include keynote addresses on topics such as the future role of bearings in industrial applications, how digitalization is driving development around the rotating shaft and how these developments combine to enable the growth of outcome-based business models.

Within the expert sessions that follow, the role of modelling, artificial intelligence and machine learning in enabling the improvement of bearing design, performance, lifespan and predictability will be explored.

In particular, there will be a focus on: prognostics and the benefits of accurately predicting bearing performance; life models, such as SKF’s GBLM (Generalized Bearing Life Model) which can now be applied to selection of hybrid bearings; the circular economy and the demand for bearing remanufacturing and recycling of bearing-related materials.

The latest developments within deep groove ball bearings and their applications within electric vehicles will also be presented.

For further details, and to register, visit: http://bit.ly/technical_press_day_registration
 

For further information on SKF, visit: www.skf.com.

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For further information, please contact:

Press Relations: Nia Kihlström, +46 31-337 2897; +46 706 67 28 97; nia.kihlstrom@skf.com

SKF’s mission is to be the undisputed leader in the bearing business. SKF offers solutions around the rotating shaft, including bearings, seals, lubrication, condition monitoring and maintenance services. SKF is represented in more than 130 countries and has around 17,000 distributor locations worldwide. Annual sales in 2019 were SEK 86 013 million and the number of employees was 43,360. www.skf.com

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