Industrial Factory Automation

Baldor will introduce the Quadguard sealing system and Ultra Kleen mounted ball bearing at the Total exhibition, which will take place at the NEC Birmingham, 25-27 May 2010. Ultra Kleen is a Dodge-brand bearing that features a 100 per cent stainless-steel bearing insert and a new sealing system and ball retainer that retain lubrication and prevent washout in wet operating environments. The new Quadguard sealing system has a triple lip seal and a rubberised flinger. The triple lip seal offers three points of contact to keep lubricant in and contaminants out. The rubberised flinger is a moulded nitrile rubber component that is bonded to the flinger surface and provides an additional barrier to contaminants. A two-piece ball-retaining cage called Maxlife also aids reliability by creating a grease compartment around each of the rolling elements. The compartments provide constant contact between ball and grease so an oil film always exists to prevent wear and minimise friction and heat. T...

C-Cubed has added the Pocketlube to its range of condition-monitoring tools, giving the user total control over lubrication. C-Cubed's range of predictive-maintenance tools is based around an ultra rugged and waterproof handheld unit with a high-quality colour touch-screen display. An accelerometer, which can be easily positioned by the user using a magnet mount, gives instant diagnosis of machine faults such as bearing wear, instability, out of balance, misalignment and looseness.  At entry level, for those new to vibration analysis, there is Pocketvibra Lite, which allows data collection at the touch of a single button. This can be fully upgraded to Pocketvibra Pro, C-Cubed's full asset-management system with trending of asset data, alarming, automatic report generation and graphical display of multiple frequency spectra. For the vibration expert, there is Pocketvibra Ultra, which adds 0.3Hz resolution from 0 to 15kHz, user-selectable filters and local storage of readings i...