Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology

For machines in the food industry, you need special solutions. Extreme temperatures, high mechanical loads, short cycle times, round-the-clock operation, and regular cleaning cycles require very robust components. Strict food safety regulations pose as much of a challenge here as efficiency and sustainability.

Whether it's for process automation in food production, for beverage production or the packaging industry, in all cases you need food-compatible rolling bearings, plain bearings, and linear guidance systems as well as adapted lubrication and seal concepts.

Even during the planning stage of your machines, it is already important to find the right rolling bearing solution for your application, for example with the aid of simulation tools.

And with permanent condition monitoring, you create the best conditions for the reliable, hygienic, and economical operation of your equipment. Learn more about how you can successfully meet the challenges of the food, beverage, and packaging industry.

In this podcast we are considering Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology and also Scheffler's condition monitoring technology, Optime.

My guests today are Tom Richmond, Scheffler's Food and Beverage Sales Engineer and Sally Sillis, Shefler Technical Manager.

Topics include:

What makes Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology particularly applicable to the Food & Beverage industry.

Overview of Scheffler's condition monitoring technology, Optime and its core principles.

How Schaeffler's Condition Monitoring services and technologies support customers.

How important is FDA certification.

How Schaeffler is involved with the design stage of a new process, or helping customers to evolve existing systems and processes.

An outline the sustainability credentials of Optime and Radial Insert Ball Bearings technologies.

Why contact bearings or combined radial and axial loads are particularly applicable to the food and beverage industry.

How Optime can be integrated into existing machinery and control systems.