Expertise

Customers drive Timken innovation — even when the challenge is 390 million miles away. John Renaud, principal application engineer, explains how Timken expertise will help NASA capture the first detailed images of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

Innovative CGI, Inc. precision drive systems and process technologies are revolutionizing medical automation and surgical robots to improve patient outcomes worldwide.

Timken’s Syber Bearing System Designer (BSD) tool identifies the right bearing for every power transmission system. Brian Ray, chief engineer, explains the customer-centric approach to the new online platform now available to design engineers globally.

Precision gearing is an integral component for some of the most-sophisticated applications serving high-growth industries worldwide, including aerospace and minimally invasive surgeries. Kurt Gamelin, platform leader, talks about Timken’s expanding product line and how Cone Drive, SPINEA and CGI are meeting customer demand for flexibility, expertise and reliability.

Our partnerships with universities and national labs help research and development teams evaluate and develop the technologies of the future.

Timken leverages 100+ years of rail-related engineering expertise to develop innovative solutions that advance electric passenger rail system.

Timken, recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies in 2024 by Fast Company, applies its leading R&D capabilities and 125 years of engineering expertise to optimize efficiency and sustainability in wind energy and solar power technologies. The company’s top technology leaders explain.

Ralph Mosteller shares how Timken prototyping helps prove the manufacturability of next-gen engineered bearings that support customer innovation for the new economy.

Senior Materials Specialists Aaron Muhlenkamp and Amanda Grow share how Timken metallurgy expertise advances the manufacturability and performance of bearings used in the world’s most crucial applications.

Dan McClelland discusses the crucial role of Timken product testing in developing next-gen engineered bearings that support customer technologies like electrification and increasingly enormous wind turbines.

Bill Hannon shares how Timken R&D combines practical and theoretical science to predict bearing performance in complex mechanical power transmission systems.

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.

Bearings are efficient by nature, but we continue to explore ways of making our materials and manufacturing processes even more efficient and sustainable.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.