Improving the lifespan and reliability of bearings lies at the forefront of modern bearing design and manufacture. Quality control and R&D play an important role in achieving this objective.
In the Bearings Industry, quality control is typically performed with a large number of specialised contact gauges, each serving a specific purpose. Moving components between these various gauges lengthens the cycle time and often leads to defects on the delicate bearing surfaces.
Measuring quality-critical parameters optically can eliminate the risk of damage and speed up the inspection of bearing race, bore and bearing thickness by a factor of 100.
Failure analysis of returns from the field or parts from simulators is a valuable tool for researchers striving to improve the longevity of bearings. It provides the basis for learning about the behaviour of materials and the impact of manufacturing techniques on product quality while reducing manufacturing cost.
Traditional metrology assesses bearings in 2D, but often fails to capture relevant information that only a full, 3-dimensional measurement can uncover. Identifying, where on a bearing a defect has occurred, how it relates to its neighbours, what its depth and volume are and how it develops over time provides valuable input for advances in bearing technology.
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