A bearing is what makes the world go round in a highly industrialised era.Take any industrial technology propelling the world forward, and chances are that there is a rotating or rotary mechanism operating at its heart. Be it a pressing machine, pump, motor, bike, car, escalator, elevator, turbine, windmill, heavy equipment, or capital machinery, everywhere you look, you are likely to find the humble bearing, hidden from plain sight yet working away tirelessly in the background. The industrial bearing is perpetually hard at work, ensuring complex machines’ health, viability, and efficacy. They may be small, but their impact on the industrial milieu is prodigiously large. Since the very dawn of the industrial age, bearings have registered a towering presence over the manufacturing landscape, and their role is only growing larger as manufacturing graduates to the next level of industrial evolution, namely, Industry 4.0.
These bearings, which are now augmented with AI, are yielding cost savings and optimising strategic Capex investment decisions for companies choosing to use them on their factory floor. When artificial intelligence powers industrial operations, productivity, efficiency, and unit economics improve, while maintenance costs fall dramatically.
What is Industry 4.0?
Without wading into technicalities and taxing nuances, it would suffice to define Industry 4.0 as primarily a merger of manufacturing prowess with new-age technologies. A distinctive marker of the Industry 4.0 revolution is that it is occasioning an industrial evolution that has been long due, namely, the arrival of smart machines on the factory floor scene.
The criticality of lubrication
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