C&U Bearing Testing Capabilities
We have created a comprehensive bearing testing capability in our C&U Research & Development Center. Our bearing testing team includes over 100 engineers dedicated to maintaining quality and driving innovation.
Along with our global testing capabilities, we support our North American customers with analysis and testing services at our C&U Americas laboratory based in Plymouth, MI.
We employ a full spectrum analysis capabilities:
- Material / Heat-Treatment Check and Analysis
- Dimension and Shape Measuring
- Roundness / Roughness / Waviness / Vibration Measuring
- Oil / Grease / Rubber Analysis
Our capabilities allow for a wide range of testing procedures:
Bearing & materials quality testing
- Fatigue life testing
- Grease performance testing
- Oxygen, Nitrogen & Hydrogen content
- Slurry splash testing
- Length measurement
- High temperature & speed testing
- Microscopic analysis
- Torque durability testing
- Bending life testing
- Micro hardness measurement
- Stress measurement
Environmental testing
- Seal performance testing
- High / low temperature testing
- Shaker / impact testing
Auto bearing testing
- Auto ball bearings
- Taper roller bearings
- Wheel hub bearings
- Engine accessary bearings
Our testing engineers are supported with a full compliment of advanced testing equipment:
- Metallurgical microscopes
- Spectrometers
- Energy-dispersive spectrometry
- Hardness testers
- Laser measurement
- Surface stress analyzer
- bending life test bench
- torque duability test bench
- fatigue life test bench
- micro hardness meter
- stress meter
- slurry splash test bench
- Nikon Microscope