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 Reliability Systems

A single source for reducing total machine related costs, enhancing productivity and strengthening profitability

SKF Reliability Systems offers a comprehensive approach to optimizing machine efficiency and integrity. Our strategy is to combine SKF knowledge, services and products to create unique solutions based on each customer's business objectives. The ultimate goal is to help our customers to increase bottom line productivity and profitability, without increasing capital expense.

A business unit of the SKF Group, the $6 billion world leader in bearings, SKF Reliability Systems includes 1,400 dedicated employees around the world, 220 of which provide field maintenance services.

Capabilities

SKF offers a wide variety of capabilities, available as stand-alone measures or as part of a larger machine or plant-wide reliability initiative. They include:

* Application-specific programs such as Paper Machine Optimization. These are designed to maximize Overall Machine Efficiency (OME (Open Messaging Environment) An open messaging system from Novell. It is based on Microsoft's MAPI and is a superset of Novell's MHS and WordPerfect Office's messaging systems. ) in key equipment such as press sections and spreader spreader,
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 rolls through the strategic collection and analysis of machine condition data.

* The @ptitude(r) Industrial Decision Support System, which helps to improve plant efficiency by replacing labor-intensive data collection and analysis with automatic analysis, fault resolution and work order notification. Also available is @ptitudeXchange, a fee-based, online web-enabled knowledge source for asset maintenance and reliability-related issues.

* Services such as assessment, maintenance strategy, maintenance engineering, diagnostics and root cause analysis, predictive maintenance Predictive maintenance (PdM) techniques help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to predict when maintenance should be performed. This approach offers cost savings over routine or time-based preventive maintenance because tasks are performed only when , machine maintenance, technology upgrades, training and supply process management.

Products

SKF offers a wide range of ancillary products designed to increase plant productivity. These include bearings, maintenance products, lubrication lubrication, introduction of a substance between the contact surfaces of moving parts to reduce friction and to dissipate heat. A lubricant may be oil, grease, graphite, or any substance—gas, liquid, semisolid, or solid—that permits free action of  systems, linear motion technologies and special application products. Also offered is industry's most complete family of condition monitoring Condition monitoring is the process of monitoring a parameter of condition in machinery, such that a significant change is indicative of a developing failure. It is a major component of predictive maintenance.  tools for both periodic or continuous, on-line surveillance.

For more information: www.skf.com/reliability

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Date:Jan 1, 2005
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