01 · Applications
Engine-room auxiliaries and pumps
Bearings and monitoring points on pumps, purifiers, compressors, fans and generator auxiliaries.
Engine-room buyers usually start from a designation on a nameplate, a drawing, or a failed part. Where the mark is gone, the useful record is the machine, the bearing location, and the boundary dimensions.
Deep groove ball bearings, cylindrical roller bearings and angular contact ball bearings turn up often in motors and pumps. Spherical roller bearings and housings turn up where the shaft can deflect. The right type is not decided by the room the machine sits in.
Schaeffler’s OPTIME publication lists pumps, compressors, fans and electric motors among typical monitoring arrangements. That is a manufacturer description of where those sensors are aimed. It is not a statement that a vessel already has them, or that FEX fits them.
What to include
- Machine maker, model and where the bearing sits.
- Designation, or bore, outside diameter and width.
- Speed, duty and the lubricant now in use.
- Whether the space is a hazardous area.
Products
- Spherical roller bearings
Self-aligning roller bearings for shafts that deflect or sit out of line.
- Cylindrical roller bearings
High radial capacity, with separable rings that simplify some gearbox and motor assemblies.
- Deep groove ball bearings
The usual bearing in electric motors, small pumps and fans.
- Angular contact ball bearings
Ball bearings for axial load in a defined direction, often mounted as a pair.
- Housings and plummer blocks
The housing that locates a bearing: split plummer blocks and flanged housings.
- OPTIME condition monitoring
Schaeffler wireless vibration and temperature sensors, gateways and the OPTIME app.
- ProLink CMS
Schaeffler’s named multi-channel condition-monitoring system in the Lifetime Solutions portfolio.
- SmartCheck
Schaeffler SmartCheck, named as a condition-monitoring device in Lifetime Solutions.
- CONCEPT lubricators
Schaeffler CONCEPT1 and the CONCEPT2, CONCEPT4 and CONCEPT8 lubricators.
- OPTIME C1 lubricators
Schaeffler connected lubricators: OPTIME C1, C1 Pro and C4.
- Arcanol greases
Schaeffler’s Arcanol rolling-bearing greases. Selection stays in the official brochure.
- Manufacturer services
Monitoring, mounting, training and remanufacturing as published by Schaeffler — requested, not promised as FEX work.