MINING AND MINERAL PROCESSING
Reduce downtime and improve
Benefits
• Quick, efficient bearing mounting
and dismounting
• Improves safety with the
elimination of unsafe tools
• Reduces repair costs with less
downtime and labour
• Eliminates rework with accurate
first-time bearing mounting
Typical applications
• Conveyors likelihood that the bearing will be installed
• Crushers
• Mills
• Kiln supports
• Fans
• Gearboxes
• Motors
A. Hydraulic nuts HMV .. E series
accommodates heavy drive-up forces
B. Hydraulic pump with pressure gauge
C. Oil injector enables fast dismounting
of bearings
For more information about SKF products and solutions for the mining, mineral
processing and cement industries, contact your SKF Authorized Distributor.
safety with SKF hydraulic assist
systems
Improve employee safety, maintenance efficiency, and
equipment performance with SKF hydraulic assist systems
Mounting and dismounting bearings SKF has a full range of hydraulic assist
without the right tools can be expensive system components, including:
but more importantly, it can expose your • Nuts
employees to possible injury. However,
• Pumps
with SKF hydraulic assist systems, bea­r-­
ings, couplings and other mechanical • Fittings
components can be mounted and • Couplings
dismounted quickly, efficiently and safely. • Sleeves
In addition to being fast and safe, SKF A selected range of SKF hydraulic nuts
hydraulic assist systems improve the are available from SKF for rent/hire.
correctly for maximum bearing service
life thereby reducing future maintenance
requirements. Parts dismounted with
hydraulic assist are also more likely to
be suitable for re-use.
A C
Increase the return on your maintenance investment with SKF
The SKF 360° Solution programme embodies our goal to help you get more out of your plant
machinery and equipment investment.
This means lowering your maintenance costs, or raising your productivity, or both! Here’s an
example of the SKF 360° Solution at work in the mining, mineral processing and cement industry.

Crushed stone producer The solution was an SKF hydraulic assist The most common
nut, fittings and a hydraulic pump to causes of injury in
saves €27 000 with SKF mount new bearings onto the shaft. the mining and
hydraulic assist mainte­n­ Hydraulic assist drives the bearings onto mineral processing
ance tools. Increased the shaft with quick, easy and efficient industry are doing
worker safety contributed hydraulic pressure. The steady force of machine mainten­
ance and repair
to the bottom line. the hydraulic pressure enables the bearing
and the improper
clearance to be measured accurately and
A producer of crushed stone gained set precisely. This eliminates the need for use of hand-tools.
€27 000 in wages, benefits, and lost hammers, spanners or bars, and virtually The use of hydraulic
production by investing in the purchase eliminates the need to remount the assist tools substan-
of SKF hydraulic assist systems. bearing because clearance is not correct; tially reduces the risk of injury by
a common occurrence when using a eliminating the hammers, drive bars,
Bearings on the horizontal impact crusher and torches too often used to mount
needed replacement. This primary crusher hammer to mount a bearing. With the
SKF hydraulic assist tools the remounting and dismount bearings. Avoid injuries
produces 400 tonnes/hour and the plant’s and the costs associated with them by
production stops when it is out of service. of the bearing took 4 hours. Total down­-
time was 13 hours – half the time of the reducing the need for repairs and using
Bearing replacement took the mainten­ the proper tools for the job.
ance crew 26 hours to rig tools to previous outage.
dismount and mount new spherical
roller bearings on the tapered shaft.

Summary*
Savings by minimizing downtime and labour costs .….….….….….… €33 000
Investment in SKF hydraulic nut, fittings and pump………………… –€6 000
Total savings……………………………………………… €27 000
* All numbers are rounded off and based on customer estimates of labour and production costs. Your particular cost savings results may vary.

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