Schaeffler Australia's FAG split self-aligning roller bearings are meticulously designed to fundamentally simplify maintenance, reduce downtime, and lower costs associated with bearing replacement in machinery and plants. Schaeffler's FAG split bearings not only reduce downtime by 50% or more but also save costs by eliminating the complex replacement procedures associated with solid bearings.
Easy-to-install split roller bearings improve uptime and profitability for a wide range of machinery and equipment used in industries such as mining, energy, oil and gas, construction, engineering, materials handling, lifting technology, manufacturing, metalworking, HVAC, food and beverage, agribusiness processing, ports and cargo handling, heavy transport and rail, papermaking, and primary production.
Martin Grosvenor, Industrial and Product Manager at Schaeffler Australia, stated that split self-aligning roller bearings are primarily used where replacing non-split self-aligning roller bearings would incur expensive replacement costs, including disassembling gears or couplings, drives, or shaft drives. FAG split self-aligning roller bearings are particularly useful on shafts supported at several hard-to-access points and locations, and are commonly used in worm gears, buckets, and belt conveyors; material processing plants; motors; bucket wheel excavators and reclaimers; elevators; winches and pulleys; mixing and blending plants; mills and crushers; sintering plants; drum kilns; fans and ventilators; dust removal plants; drive shafts; ventilation plants; rolling mills; marine and papermaking machinery; and primary product and food and beverage processing.
Mr. Grosvenor stated that compared to solid bearings, FAG split self-aligning roller bearings reduce installation downtime by approximately 50% by eliminating very time-consuming replacement procedures such as installing drive components, installing shaft assemblies in the housing, and connecting drive components. He added that compared to solid bearings, maintenance downtime can be further reduced to approximately 33% by eliminating procedures such as disconnecting drive components, disassembling shaft assemblies, and removing drive components from the shaft.
FAG split self-aligning roller bearings from the Schaeffler Group ensure continued reliability and are supported in Australia by product selection and packaging solutions, installation expertise, online condition monitoring, and lubrication technology for optimal performance. Key features of FAG split self-aligning roller bearings include metric and imperial shaft dimensions; no major modifications to existing bearing housings; comparable load-carrying and misalignment capacity to solid bearings; quick and easy bearing replacement; single bearing design with fixed or floating ends; and preset radial internal clearance, eliminating the need for feeler gauges. Key benefits include reduced replacement costs; maintaining existing shaft center height; no reduction in bearing life; a proven design to accommodate high loads and misalignment; reduced downtime and maintenance costs; lower inventory costs; and optimal clearance achieved by directly clamping the inner ring to the shaft with high-strength hex socket head cap screws.
