Why You Should Use Maintenance-Free Cam Followers
Carving out time for traditional maintenance practices can be difficult. It is rarely convenient to stop your production to inspect your equipment, but it has to be done to ensure consistent equipment performance. Or, does it? An innovative solution gaining traction in the industry is the adoption of maintenance-free cam followers. Let’s take a look […]
The 3 Biggest Conveying Challenges in Food and Beverage Processing
If you work in food and beverage processing, you know that there are unique challenges to overcome. Between high sanitation standards, frequent equipment washdowns, and potential food contamination, there’s a lot to manage. In this article, we’ll examine these challenges, and how to handle them. We’ll also explore how Timken’s innovative products can provide solutions […]
Premature Hoist Failure: Causes Beyond Capacity
Learn why premature hoist failure can occur below rated capacity and how duty cycle, braking, side pulling, power, and environment affect reliability.
Axial vs. Radial Loads: How Load Direction Affects Bearing Selection and Service Life
Learn the difference between axial and radial loads, common bearing failure modes, and how proper bearing selection improves reliability and equipment life.
Rod End Selection: How to Choose the Right Design for Your Application
A rod end can have the correct bore and thread and still be wrong for the application. Learn how load, movement, construction, and environment affect rod end selection.
Leaking Grain? When to Use a Magnetic Repair Patch
A magnetic repair patch can quickly cover some leaks in grain-handling equipment without welding, bolting, or waiting for adhesive to cure. Learn when one may work and what to check before installation.
Hybrid Ceramic Bearings for Electric Motors: When Is the Upgrade Worth It?
Hybrid ceramic bearings can address electrical erosion and demanding operating conditions, but only when the failure mechanism and application support the upgrade.
How to Size a Screw Conveyor: The Information You’ll Need Before Requesting a Quote
A screw conveyor can hit its target throughput and still be the wrong conveyor for the job. We’ve seen applications where a conveyor moved the required tons per hour on paper but plugged after startup, overloaded the drive, wore through components prematurely, or damaged the product being conveyed. In many cases, the problem wasn’t the […]
How to Choose Safety Glasses for Industrial Work
A Z87+ marking does not make safety glasses suitable for every hazard. Learn how to compare impact ratings, coverage, fit, lenses, and task-specific limitations.
Abrasion Is the #1 Hose Killer—Here’s How to Stop It
A hydraulic hose fails. Not at peak pressure. Not during startup. Just… mid-shift. Everything looked fine from the outside—until it didn’t. Now you’ve got downtime, cleanup, and a replacement job that wasn’t supposed to happen. This is the part most teams miss: the majority of hose failures don’t come from pressure overload. They come from […]
Conveyor Gearbox Removal Problems: Why Shaft-Mounted Drives Seize Over Time
A shaft-mounted conveyor gearbox usually comes off the shaft easily the day it’s installed. Five years later is a different story. In grain handling, aggregate processing, cement plants, and other bulk material operations, maintenance teams regularly face conveyor gearbox removal problems during scheduled outages. What should be a straightforward gearbox replacement turns into hours of […]
Why Corrosion Is Still Causing Downtime in Modern Plants
The coupling didn’t fail during peak load. It failed two weeks after a routine washdown. At first, it was just vibration—nothing urgent. Alignment was checked. Bearings were inspected. Everything looked fine on paper. But the vibration kept getting worse, and eventually the line went down. When the coupling was pulled, the issue wasn’t overload or […]