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SKF Insight | Intelligent AI technology makes wind turbine spindle bearing grease inspection twice as easy!

In the traditional way, it is necessary to take grease samples from the wind turbine, and then send the samples to the laboratory, the customer often needs to wait for 1-2 weeks, during which time either the turbine is shut down resulting in a loss of power generation or the bearings are running sick, causing irreversible damage, which is a situation the customer does not want to see.

THORDON BEARINGS SUCCESS WITH ASIA’S LARGEST DAM

Thordon’s wicket gate and linkage bearings have been in continuous use for four years and were installed when the company was asked to provide an alternative to a competing system, some parts of which had failed after just two years under the intensive conditions at the dam.