Use of maintenance-free technologies offer opportunities to reduce the amount of maintenance required on mobile machinery and their components, as well as the downtime associated with it.
In this QuickChat with John Prokopec, Heavy-Duty Industry Manager, Bearings Division, and Stephen Bowman, Heavy-Duty Industry Manager, e-Chain Division, at igus, they provide an overview of igus’ maintenance-free plastic bearings and energy chains.
Prokopec and Bowman offer insight into the design of these plastic components and what enables them to be maintenance free.
They also discuss additional benefits offered by the plastic bearings and energy chains, the heavy-duty mobile equipment applications for which they are best suited as well as provide tips on integrating them into machine designs.