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Kate Immel, product manager, shares how Timken leverages 100+ years of rail-related engineering expertise to develop innovative solutions that amplify the benefits of electric passenger rail systems globally.

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.

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.

In an era when technological breakthroughs happen at breakneck speed, Timken offers solutions to industries like automotive, wind energy, and satellite communications, where the competition and the pace of innovation present incredible challenges.

Digital innovation is the price of admission in today’s business world, and digital self-service is increasingly important to customers and employees alike. Doug Smith talks about Timken’s process of advancing customer-centric technologies.

Electric flight is becoming a reality at last. As with any mechanical innovation, Timken’s enabling technologies provide significant advantages for aircraft designers looking to launch the next commercially viable electric aircraft.

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.

Timken and GGB provide customers with 246 years of combined bearing expertise and innovation. Here’s how the acquisition of GGB diversifies Timken capabilities and products to meet the future for customers.

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 125 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How did the first galaxies form? What are the building blocks of the universe? The James Webb Telescope will help scientists answer these questions, aided by advanced Timken bearing technology.

From protecting the environment to improving factory efficiency, current global trends drive tomorrow’s technology. Timken research and development will solve new challenges that arise for this next generation of equipment — providing value for customers and other stakeholders.

For manufacturing R&D engineers, factory automation is all about adding consistency to manufacturing processes, product quality — and the reliability of Timken’s customer commitments. For Timken investors, it’s all about value.

U.S. Navy ships rely on Philadelphia Gear solutions. Here’s how one of Timken’s flagship power transmission brands applies 125+ years of expertise to meet the complex gearing needs of some of the toughest customers.

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.

Doug Lucas helped pioneer Timken’s wind energy business over the past 15 years. In a new technical article, he and Kuldeep Mistry compare the performance of two greases commonly used on wind turbine mainshaft bearings.

Timken Materials R&D push the limits of physics to create processes and technologies that solve previously unsolvable problems.

All over the world, supply chain leaders are questioning every assumption they might have held as recently as two winters ago. Louise Dalton, director of global supply chain, talks about her team’s approach to getting products into the hands of customers.

At the heart of Timken’s culture of learning is a commitment to diverse perspectives and collaborative leadership. Three Timken associates talk about the skills and insights they have gained in the Operations Development Program.

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

Timken’s Syber Bearing System Analysis platform helps application engineers work with customers to find the best bearing for any given power train system. Three engineers who know it inside-out discuss what makes the platform uniquely useful—and uniquely Timken.

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.

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.

Time is money in every industry, and interruptions don’t always happen during regular business hours. When customers have an emergency at 2 a.m., Timken service engineers leap into problem-solving mode—restoring uptime, limiting losses, and promoting safe operations.

How did the first galaxies and stars form? What are the building blocks of the universe? When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2021, Timken technology will help the world see its amazing discoveries.

Photo credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

Timken subsidiaries, Cone Drive and Rollon, are developing innovative solutions for industrial robotics, serving OEMs as well as industries such as automotive, rail and logistics.

While the pace and complexity of global manufacturing continues to accelerate, Timken quality never falters. Vice President of Quality Matt Eckels talks about the systems, standards, and culture involved in maintaining that century-old commitment.

As original equipment designers increase their focus on noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH), Timken’s analysis tools help identify the right bearing for each use case.

As manufacturers look to reduce friction at every point in electric vehicle designs, Timken customers are gaining the ability to optimize lubricant-bearing combinations.

Wind has become an increasingly viable energy source over the past decade. Timken innovation has played a significant role.

A cluster of giant wind turbines in the North Sea generates a lot of energy over 25 years, powering 3,500 homes per turbine. Building it required an unparalleled team of manufacturing and engineering technologists.

Timken takes the tapered roller bearing to the next level with its new plant in Prahova, Romania, featuring sophisticated advancements in thermal treatment capabilities and finishing technologies.

How do acquisitions add value for Timken customers, associates and shareholders? Executive VP and CFO Phil Fracassa explains the strategy.