Training
Timken offers a variety of training resources, including on-site training at Timken or training that can be tailored to your audience and delivered at your site. Where no standard training program exists to address your needs, we have a network of bearing and power transmission experts around the world who can be called on to provide their expertise.
New skills. Better know-how. Deeper insights. Together, they make you – and your organization – stronger.
That’s what you gain through the training resources from Timken. We have a training solution to fit your industry and site-specific needs, whether you’re:
- An engineer who needs help choosing appropriate bearings or components.
- A maintenance professional who wants to gain the greatest uptime and performance from your equipment.
- A distributor who wants to offer the best advice and products to your customers.
- Someone interested in strengthening your knowledge of bearings and applications.
Start by browsing our catalog of standard training programs.
If needed, we can tailor the coursework and even deliver most training programs at your location.
Can’t find a program? We have a network of engineered bearing and power transmission experts around the world who can help. Visit locations.timken.com to find a regional Timken sales office near you.
Training for Design Engineers
Learn and Lead with Timken – Bearing Fundamentals Seminar
Become a bearing expert at your company.
The Learn and Lead with Timken technical training seminar is a comprehensive, instructional program that provides knowledge on key bearing fundamentals. It’s an ideal program for design, reliability and maintenance engineers working in any industry.
- You gain a better understanding of core bearing designs, selection, installation, clearance, setting, and environmental factors that impact the performance of bearings.
- The 2.5 days of in-person training blends hands-on training with instructor-led presentations, facility tours, and open forum discussion groups.
- Our experienced application and service engineers lead all seminar sessions.
- Meet with members of the Timken engineering management team to discuss practical, real-world challenges facing your organization.
For more information on fees and dates in your region and online opportunities, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com
Cannot attend the learn and lead session at Timken?
We also offer virtual training webinars. To learn when the next webinar is, email timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Training for End Users, Operators and Maintenance Professionals
Bearings are at the heart of almost every piece of industrial equipment. Maintain them well, and they will help extend operating life and boost performance.
Take one of our training programs specifically designed for those who maintain bearings and industrial equipment.
- Learn the fundamentals of anti-friction bearings.
- Understand the basics of how they operate and what you need to do to ensure maximum bearing life.
- Benefit from one of our industry-specific courses, where bearings play an especially crucial role.
For more information about the training program, fees and dates in your region, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
We tailored our Bearing Maintenance Training Program specifically to maintenance and repair personnel. It offers invaluable information to keep equipment running efficiently.
- It’s entirely customizable. You select the topics that are most important to you and your maintenance teams.
- You choose where we present, whether it’s at your location or a nearby hotel or conference center.
Training topics include:
- Anti-friction bearing fundamentals, with an overview of the basic bearing designs most commonly used in industrial applications: ball, cylindrical, spherical and tapered.
- Correct installation and maintenance of Timken roller housed units (mounted bearings).
- Proper seal, coupling belt and chain maintenance.
- Aspects of bearing technology, inspection and damage analysis.
- Our service and application engineers lead classroom presentations and practical hands-on sessions.
For more information on this course, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
To illustrate your facility’s commitment to following appropriate bearing maintenance practices, you can seek the designation “Timken Bearing Certified.”
For maintenance organizations and service shops, it demonstrates to your customers that your shop follows the highest standards in bearing service.
For in-house shops, it confirms that you have solid processes and the appropriate equipment in place to ensure proper bearing maintenance.
Contact timkenengineeringhelp.com for more information.
Industry-Focused Training
Machine Tool Industry Training
We have taken the best of our bearing training and tailored it for those working in the machine tool industry, whether you’re a spindle design engineer or spindle maintenance technician.
When you attend, you will take away the knowledge you need from the bearing experts at Timken. You will learn how proper bearing selection and assembly can impact the performance and longevity of a machine tool spindle. The two-day course at our Shiloh Plant in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, will cover:
- Timken’s machine tool product portfolio and the many options offered to serve milling, grinding and turning spindles, headstocks, tailstocks, ball screws and tables.
- How to select the appropriate bearing seat and achieve the desired mounted preload.
- How to properly handle a spindle teardown and rebuild.
For more information, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Rolling Mill Industry Training
Learn how to use the proper equipment and practices that will help reduce downtime and lower your rolling mill’s overall maintenance and operating costs.
This two-day program covers multiple phases of mill operations from melt to finish, including:
- Bearing fundamentals.
- Rolling mill configurations and related equipment.
- Bearing damage analysis and repair.
- Bearing installation techniques, setting methods and proper lubrication.
You gain personalized instruction from Timken service and application engineers, all of whom have extensive industry knowledge.
Sessions are a combination of classroom and hands-on training. This helps you put what you learn into practice as soon as you finish.
Classes are offered at Timken facilities or we can customize training specifically for your facility and deliver it at your location.
For more information, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Paper Mill Industry Training
This program is ideal for maintenance and mill operators. It takes an in-depth look into the equipment fundamentals and processes needed to help reduce maintenance costs and increase uptime relative to paper mill bearing usage.
This two-day program offers complete bearing training for paper and auxiliary equipment in every aspect of paper manufacturing – from pulp to finish. Courses, held at our Timken Industrial Services Plant in Union, South Carolina, will cover:
- Operating characteristics of anti-friction rolling element bearings.
- Proper use, including handling, installation and lubrication
- Mounting procedures.
- Inspection and damage analysis.
- Bearing maintenance.
For more information on this course, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Mining Industry Training
We’ve taken the best of our Bearing Maintenance Training and tailored it to the specific needs of the mining industry.
- Timken service and application engineers, who have a deep knowledge of many mining applications, conduct classroom presentations and practical hands-on sessions.
- Instructors cover every aspect of bearing technology. They demonstrate the most effective procedures to remove, install and adjust bearings in your equipment.
- You learn how to inspect bearings and determine different damage modes.
- Additional topics include the care and handling of seals, couplings, belts and chains, and proper lubrication techniques.
To illustrate your facility’s commitment to following appropriate bearing maintenance practices, you can seek the designation “Timken Bearing Certified.”
- For maintenance organizations and service shops, it demonstrates to your customers that your shop follows the highest standards in bearing service.
- For in-house shops, it confirms that you have solid processes and the appropriate equipment in place to ensure proper bearing maintenance.
For more information on this course, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Cement & Aggregate Industry Training
Learn how proper bearing selection and assembly can affect the performance and longevity of cement mill and aggregate equipment.
Our virtual webinar series, led by Timken service and application engineers, give participants valuable information to:
- Select the right mounted bearing for the application
- Review best practices to reduce downtime
- Identify ways to help lower overall maintenance costs
- Help understand bearing types specified on a range of cement processing, milling and aggregate equipment
For more information on this course, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Wind Energy Industry Training
Our wind energy training equips design engineers and maintenance professionals with education and practices that can help keep wind turbines running optimally and minimize unexpected downtimes.
At this in-person training, attendees learn:
- Bearing fundamentals
- Bearing damage analysis
- How bearings and components – including mainshaft and gearbox bearings – operate within wind drivetrain systems
- How lubrication, metallurgy, coatings and other treatments affect bearing life and performance
- Best practices for wind turbine bearing inspection and maintenance
For more information on this course, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Automotive Industry Training
Take advantage of our Timken Tech Series – a free, online training program for professional technicians for light, medium-duty and commercial vehicles.
Minimize comebacks and inspire customer confidence with knowledge that helps you do the job right the first time. It’s practical, professional and accurate training that helps you gain customer trust.
- Gain technical and analytical skills to help you do the job right the first time.
- Acquire thorough knowledge of bearings (including removal and installation), hubs, lubricants, seal selection, plus so much more – whether you’re involved with light or heavy-duty vehicles.
- Light vehicle topics include: Hubs; lubricants, seals; and tapered, needle, cylindrical and ball bearings.
- Commercial vehicle topics include: Tapered bearings, seals, lubricants and driveline center support.
Stand out as an expert – whether you work on a maintenance team, at the counter or in your own shop. Visit www.timken.com/techseries to get started.
Rail Industry Training
Twice a year, maintenance professionals, engineers and a variety of roles within the rail industry join Timken engineers and rail experts for a multi-day, in-person training on all things rail bearings. The training, “Bearing Fundamentals,” has become a highly valued course for the rail industry at large.
Participants learn about:
- Bearing composition and how tapered bearings manage friction in rail applications.
- Bearing installation best practices.
- Bearing damage analysis and remedies.
- Bearing reconditioning and remanufacturing.
Attendees leave with a deep understanding of rail bearing operation and helpful practices to enhance their maintenance operations
Bearing Fundamentals training regularly has a waiting list, so if you are interested in attending, contact your local Timken representative for the next available session.
Training for Distributors
Distributors: Gain Insights on Bearings
Improve your bearing expertise and enhance your ability to service customers through our Distributor Training School (DTS).
Our DTS offers education that supports you throughout your career in the power transmission industry – beginning with online training and continuing through different levels of instructor-led training to become Timken certified.
Automotive Aftermarket professionals can access Timken Tech Series – a series of online courses focused on bearings and related products that are sold through the aftermarket.
For more information on e-learning and instructor-led courses in your region, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Gain the baseline understanding you need to properly represent Timken products. This training is a great fit for new inside and outside branch associates.
- The training series includes an overview of Timken and +25 product courses.
- Courses are engaging, easy to complete and short – 15 to 20 minutes each.
- At the end of each course, a quick quiz tests your knowledge and provides you with a certificate of completion.
- Conveniently access courses from your laptop, tablet or mobile device.
For information on DTS Level 1, email timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com
Take the knowledge you gained in DTS Level 1 to the next level. This in-person training is ideal for distributor sales personnel, purchasing agents and technical specialists.
- Training includes a comprehensive review of bearing fundamentals, housed units (mounted bearings) and power transmission products including couplings, chains and belts.
- The session is 3 days of highly engaged training using a variety of media including products, presentations, demonstrations, role-plays and group assignments.
- We strategically conduct DTS Level 2 throughout multiple regions to minimize your travel costs.
- DTS Level 1 is a prerequisite for this course.
For more information on Distributor Training School, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Advance your product know-how and become Timken certified through this final training tier. This is a premier course for distributor associates with several years of experience who want to learn more about bearings, and those with basic bearing knowledge who need to enhance their expertise.
- Gain in-depth training related to markets, applications and products. Attendees can select their preferred market and application overviews.
- This 2.5 days of training at our headquarters in North Canton, Ohio, blends hands-on training with instructor-led presentations.
- Learn from our team of application and service engineers, as well as product-line experts.
- DTS Level 2 is a prerequisite for this course.
For more information on Distributor Training School, contact timkenengineeringhelp@timken.com.
Take advantage Timken Tech Series – a free, online training program for parts distributors for light, medium-duty and commercial vehicles.
Stand out as an expert – whether you work on a maintenance team, at the counter or in your own shop – by harnessing the critical skills necessary as a service technician or sales associate. You will gain thorough knowledge of bearings, hubs, lubricants and seals plus so much more – whether you’re involved with light or heavy-duty vehicles.
- Light vehicle topics include: Hubs, lubricants and seals, as well as tapered, needle, cylindrical and ball bearings.
- Commercial vehicle topics include: Tapered bearings, seals, lubricants and driveline center support.
It’s practical, professional and accurate training that helps you gain customer trust. Visit www.timken.com/techseries to get started.