SKF Bearing Calculator AppNeed help with bearing selection, calculations or assistance selecting the right ball or roller screw? SKF Group, a world leader in rolling bearings and related technologies, offers a variety of mobile apps to meet the needs of a constantly evolving world of connectivity. SKF has developed 45 iPad apps and 27 iPhone apps available for download, as well as apps for Android devices.

SKF classifies their apps into five general categories, listed below with some of the apps available.

Engineering/Selection Tools

• Actuator Select
• Ball and Roller Screws Select
• Bearing Calculator (the most popular app)
• Belt Calculator
• Bike Seals (find SKF seals replacement parts for motorcycle forks)
• Clutch Bearing Units
• DataCollect (guidance for more accurate and consistent data in data collection and machine inspection)
• DialSet (calculate bearing re-lubrication quantities and intervals)
• Linear Guides Select
• Lubrication Systems CAD Models
• Parts Info (look up parts for U.S., Canada and Mexico based vehicles)
• Power Transmission Products Catalog
• Seal Select
• Seals
• Steering Bearing Solutions
• Suspension Bearing Solutions
• Vibracon (perform chock calculations for the SKF Vibracon elements machinery mounting chocks)

Informational/Educational Apps

• Authenticate (help to determine if you have a counterfeit SKF product)
• Drive-up Method Program (for mounting SKF bearings with a tapered bore)
• PM Motors (augmented reality app; take a virtual tour inside a machine and see where bearings are and explore all of the components)
• Shelf (Access SKF brochures and other product information from your mobile device)
• SKF Insight App (only Apple watch app that connects to Bluetooth devices)
• Web Customer Link (webshop application for distributors and customers to search and buy products online)

Trade Show Support Apps

Industry or Application Specific Apps

• Automation (find solutions for automotive assembly line machines)
• Automotive Parts Search
• Engine Drive (explore complete range of solutions for car and light truck engines)
• Health Care Capabilities
• Railway Drives Preferred Range
• Upstream Oil and Gas (solutions for the oil and gas industry)
• Virtual Car
• Virtual Truck
• Virtual Wind Turbine

Condition Monitoring and Alignment Tools

• Shaft Alignment—Horizontal Shaft
• Shaft Alignment—Machine Train
• Shaft Alignment—Soft Foot
• Shaft Alignment—Spacer Shaft Alignment
• Shaft Alignment Tool TKSA 11 (for use with the TKSA 11 shaft alignment tool)
• Shaft Alignment—Values (allows the shaft alignment tool to be used as digital caliper)

Why so many apps? According to Mark Hinckley, Director Strategic Projects, it’s a simple answer, “there is a need." Use of the cloud and apps allows for easier and better distribution of information. All the user needs is a tablet instead of computers and prepared spreadsheets. SKF vows to continue to identify needs, change the culture and keep moving forward to provide easier and better distribution of information and reduce the number of catalogs, manuals and prepared spreadsheets engineers need to perform their jobs.

Visit the SKF website for additional information.