Turning Concept to Reality: Timken Prototyping
Ralph Mosteller shares how Timken prototyping helps prove the manufacturability of next-gen engineered bearings that support customer innovation for the new economy.
Timken Research & Development: Where Theory Meets the Real World
Bill Hannon shares how Timken R&D combines practical and theoretical science to predict bearing performance in complex mechanical power transmission systems.
125 Years of Bearing Leadership
Over the past 13 months, Timken acquired four bearing companies. Andreas Roellgen, Timken executive vice president and president of engineered bearings, discusses the opportunities each brings to the customers and industries that Timken serves.
Sustainability: Good Business Practice
Bearings are efficient by nature, but we continue to explore ways of making our materials and manufacturing processes even more efficient and sustainable.
Vision Systems: Improving Efficiency for Today’s Workforce
Next-generation technologies are enhancing productivity and maintaining quality while reducing labor-intensive processes. Ashish Vasil, manager of manufacturing R&D at Timken headquarters, and Cristina Dinca, development engineer at Timken Romania, share how machine vision systems are performing complex and repetitive tasks with high accuracy, allowing skilled labor to focus on more value-added functions.
Driving the European Electric Commercial Vehicle Market Forward
The electric commercial vehicle market is rapidly expanding across the globe. Timken’s tapered roller bearing technology and rheology expertise are advancing these applications in Europe. Alberto Cesi, strategic account manager, and Max Lettl discuss a recent successful partnership with an Italian multinational transport vehicle manufacturer.
Delivering Timken’s Value Proposition
Timken service engineers represent the company’s on-site customer support arm. They engage in complex, challenging, and unpredictable work, and they produce enormous value for customers, and for Timken. Dragos Oprescu, general manager of global service engineering, and Barclay Simmons, chief engineer, discuss.
A 21st Structural Engineering Feat: Lifting Ships Through China’s Highlands
Largest. Highest. Most complex. Innovative Timken bearing solutions help ships traverse the high-altitude Guizhou plateau in Southwest China via a record-breaking ship lift system—enabling faster and more efficient global trade.
EV Bearing Future Built on 120 Years of Timken Innovation
Electric vehicle manufacturers are reimagining the automobile. Backed by 120 years of R&D leadership, Timken innovates next-generation bearings for these novel vehicles—including some of the world’s longest-range, luxury electric vehicles.
Reaping Results: Timken Portfolio Delivers for Agriculture
Current events are exacerbating global food insecurity. Efficiency and uptime are now especially essential to minimizing gaps in agricultural output. Timken’s engineering expertise and robust portfolio of products play a role on this front. Mark Stangl, manager of Timken’s global marketing division, explains.
Tailor-made: Rollon Customizes Cutting-edge Linear Motion Solutions
With more than 75 percent of the company’s business driven by its ability to generate customized solutions, Rollon is an industry leader, renowned for tailoring linear motion products for complex applications in emerging markets. Fabrizio Gallone, senior application department manager, explains.
Tribology: The Science Behind Everything We Do
Carl Hager talks about the evolution of tribology in the bearing industry and explains why Timken is recognized globally as a leader on the subject.
Precision Is Priceless
Jerry Rippel, group leader of measurement R&D at Timken, discusses the department’s various measurement science platforms and technologies – and innovations – employed to help manufacturing facilities deliver on the company’s longstanding commitment to quality.
Value of Engineering: Supporting Airlines for a Safe Return to Service
Timken® landing wheel bearings enable safe takeoffs and landings for nearly every commercial jet globally. When COVID-19 grounded most of the world’s fleet, the industry was charged with keeping planes airworthy, without flying.
The Right Material for Every Application
Timken Materials R&D push the limits of physics to create processes and technologies that solve previously unsolvable problems.
Sustainable Expertise: Tracking the Sun to Power the Earth
New solar installations eclipsed new wind builds last year—a trend expected to continue through 2021 as the world transitions to more renewables. Cone Drive by Timken is the unequivocal leader in precision motion control solutions for solar tracker systems
Cultivating the Next Generation of Bearing Experts
Mike Kotzalas is known in the industry for co-authoring “the book on bearings,” among many other outstanding accomplishments. Empowering his team to go out and solve customer problems, however—that’s what really makes him proud. In a recent interview, we talked to him about his strategy to develop the next generation of bearing experts.
A Bearing Worthy of the World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine
Timken Ploiesti’s Engineering Center of Excellence maintains fluid communication from the customer to the manufacturing plant and back—which is how you build some of the largest bearings in the world, for some of the largest wind turbines ever.
Ultra-Quiet Bearings, Ultra-Efficient Design: Partnering with Customers on NVH
As original equipment designers increase their focus on noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH), Timken’s analysis tools help identify the exact bearing necessary for each use case.
With its New Rheology Lab, Timken Pioneers Next-Generation Power Train Efficiency
As manufacturers look to reduce friction at every point in electric vehicle designs, Timken customers are gaining the ability to optimize lubricant-bearing combinations.
How Timken Harnessed the Perfect Storm—and Made Wind Energy More Viable
Wind has become an increasingly viable energy source over the past decade. Timken innovation has played a significant role.
Taking Wind Energy to New Heights
Timken develops solutions for some of the world’s largest wind turbines.