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Enhancing production with — and for — less is the standing order in today’s manufacturing world. Speeding up production while at the same time looking for ways, to cut, for example, energy costs, is a tricky equation with no single answer; where and how management goes about achieving that can take several paths.
After a sluggish 2013, annual installations of new wind turbines grew by 44% in 2014, according to the Global Wind Energy Council. And while much of that growth has been in Asia— particularly China, which now leads the world with 114 GW of installed capacity—the USA, Europe, and the rest of the world expect steady growth for the next couple of years as well (Fig. 1).
Hi. My name is Renee. I’m 12.
You might remember me from about a year ago, when my dad wrote about me and the home-made motor project we did together (“Make the Connection,” February 2014).
The first thing you see when you walk into Winzeler Gear is a pretty face. No, scratch that — the face is beautiful. Streamlined with chiseled cheek bones, delicate yet bold and strong, a half dozen photos of the feminine face line the building’s entranceway, enclosed tastefully in simple black picture frames, beckoning you to come further in with its pleasant warmth, repelling you to turn and leave with its foreign presence in such a location.
A four-point contact ball bearing makes it easy to simplify
machine designs that combine radial, thrust and moment
loads, because it can handle all three simultaneously. They
are primarily used for slow-to-moderate-speed applications,
or where oscillatory movement is predominant.
Engineers typically learn that the bearing L10 life can be estimated using the so called “C/P method” — or the “basic rating life” of
the bearing, a method rooted in the 1940s. Major developments have since led to the “modified rating life,” released in ISO 281:2007,
which includes the aiso life modification factor. In this paper a succession of equations used for bearing life ratings are reviewed, and
current bearing life rating practices are discussed in detail. It is shown that — despite the introduction more than 30 years ago of
the adjustment factor of the basic rating life, and the standardization in 2007 of the aiso modification factor — use of these improved
calculation methods are not practiced by all engineers. Indeed — many continue referring to the old model as a way of seeking
compliance with existing, established practices.
Bellows couplings first began to be
widely used by machine tool builders
in the mid-to-late 20th century. With the
advent of CNC technology, machine
engineers started looking to improve
upon some of the negative influences
traditional power transmission couplings
can have on a precision rotary /
linear motion system.