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Every time you buckle up, adjust your seat or even open up your car's trunk, you are relying on a crucial yet often overlooked component: bearing assemblies. While many bearings serve in the background of your vehicle's functions, they play a...

Bearing failure is a disruptive force that can wreak havoc in industrial and manufacturing settings, causing chaos and bringing operations to a screeching halt. When crucial components give in to bearing failure, the consequences can be catastrophic.

Bearings enable smooth, low friction motion. In a perfect world they'd all be super light, extremely compact, maintenance-free, quiet and durable. In other words, perfectly optimized for automotive applications. Unfortunately the world isn't...

The medical manufacturing industry is rapidly evolving as manufacturers continue to leverage new technologies and processes in order to shorten lead times, improve quality control and produce more effective components for use in medical devices. In...

In today's business world lack of agility is a problem. Bad weather, earthquakes and geopolitical events can disrupt supply chains with little or no warning. A procurement function that fails to respond risks shutting down manufacturing. And...

Stainless steel mixing balls likely aren't the first thing you associate with nail services such as manicures and pedicures. The reality is, though, that many of the nail treatment products produced by companies in the health and beauty industry...

Few components of modern machinery are as essential as bearings. Found in almost every machine or device that is designed to move, bearings and bearing parts enable rotation while reducing stress caused by friction. In this guide, we'll look at the...

Medical device component manufacturers are held to high standards, most notably the guidelines set forth by the Good Manufacturing Practices for finished pharmaceuticals and medical devices. These guidelines require four separate process validations...

It's important to monitor the performance of the bearings in your machine designs to keep them running at 100% efficiency and increase the length of their life-cycle. What, though, are the best metrics and methods for determining if the ball...

We tend to view roller bearings as the sole domain of the world of heavy-duty manufacturing, but the truth is, they service many of our everyday needs as well. Here are 4 sports that millions enjoy which owe their existence to roller bearings: