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News from our sis­ter HEGENSCHEIDT from Erkel­enz Rol­ler bea­rings guide shafts and axles, for exam­ple in vehic­les, indus­trial plants or medi­cal tech­no­logy appli­ca­ti­ons. Usually such bea­rings run per­ma­nently under high loads. Mate­rial fati­gue and lubri­ca­tion defect are the­r­e­fore the main cau­ses of com­po­nent fail­ure. High per­for­mance rol­ler bea­rings can be manu­fac­tu­red with cera­mic ele­ments com­bi­ned with bea­ring steel. For the pro­duc­tion of bea­ring rings, the Fraun­ho­fer Insti­tute for Pro­duc­tion Tech­no­logy IPT Aachen suc­cessfully tes­ted hard rol­ling as a resource-saving alter­na­tive to exten­ding the con­ven­tio­nal pro­cess chain tog­e­ther with three project…

etz – Elek­tro­tech­nik & Auto­ma­tion repor­ted on the safety of our machi­nes. You can read the whole article below. Niles-Sim­mons MC series CNC turn-mill machi­ning cen­ters enable eco­no­mical, fle­xi­ble, pre­cise, and user-fri­endly com­plete machi­ning of large, rota­tio­nally sym­me­tri­cal work­pie­ces in one clam­ping. For the N20 MC, N30 MC, and N40 MC machi­ning cen­ters, the risk assess­ment, veri­fi­ca­tion, and docu­men­ta­tion has recently been revi­sed with the sup­port of Wie­land Electric’s safety experts. Machine safety is a mat­ter of trust in two respects. On the one hand, the ope­ra­tor trusts in the…

As many of you unfort­u­na­tely can curr­ently not visit our fac­tory per­so­nally – we still want to share with you the actual mes­sa­ges of our LED-Wel­come screen, that goes out to all cus­to­mers, sup­pli­ers, part­ners and fri­ends of our com­pany: Thanks to all ever­y­day heroes & employees and Stay healthy! 

Just in time at Eas­ter and per­fect for the lunch break in the Home Office we have pre­pared a small search image for all puz­zler! Our inno­va­tive tur­ning-mil­ling centre N30MC con­fi­gu­ra­ted for the machi­ning con­cept »clo­sed-door-machi­ning« has slightly chan­ged in the second image. Do you find the 8 dif­fe­ren­ces?   Have fun sear­ching and enjoy your Eas­ter holi­days     The solu­tion you will find here.

While we are at the begin­ning to take mea­su­res in Ger­many to con­tain the corona virus, China is alre­ady on the road to reco­very. Once the fac­tory of the NSH-Sub­si­diary at Nan­chang (NSH-CTI) had to close for a few weeks after the New Year cele­bra­ti­ons, the com­pany is now almost 100% ready to pro­duce again. It has been made pos­si­ble through con­sis­tent imple­men­ta­tion of the estab­lished rules in con­nec­tion with skilful cri­sis manage­ment. We are deligh­ted, that the Chi­nese col­le­agues are retur­ning to a little more nor­ma­lity and we are…

The 17th Inter­na­tio­nal Rail Vehicle Con­fe­rence in Dres­den was atten­ded by about 570 par­ti­ci­pants from 12 count­ries. In 4 ple­nary lec­tures and 48 pre­sen­ta­ti­ons in the con­fe­rence sec­tions »Wheel/Rail«, »Pro­ject Plan­ning, Cal­cu­la­tion and Design of Rail Vehic­les« and »Manu­fac­tu­ring, Main­ten­ance and Cost Assess­ment of Rail Vehic­les« were pre­sen­ted cur­rent fin­dings and were dis­cus­sed it with the con­fe­rence par­ti­ci­pants. The con­fe­rence was con­duc­ted by our HEGENSCHEIDT col­le­agues from Erkel­enz, who pro­vi­ded infor­ma­tion on the sub­ject of »Deep rol­ling and roll straigh­tening of wheel treads of rail vehic­les« in the con­text of…

Peo­ple who recei­ves a Ger­man scho­lar­ship can be con­side­red lucky. The pro­gramme is finan­ced by com­pa­nies to sup­port the stu­dents on their edu­ca­tio­nal path. The Ger­man scho­lar­ship hol­ders of our coope­ra­tion part­ner TU Chem­nitz were again guests at the scho­lar­ship hol­ders」 table at our fac­tory. The new talents get an impres­sion of the high qua­lity and modern manu­fac­tu­ting of NILES-SIMMONS. We look for­ward to see­ing some of them again soon, per­haps for a lon­ger period of time. Thanks for your visit.