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The Timken Company (NYSE) will be expanding its value-added lineup of remote condition monitoring / diagnostics systems in North America.
The focus in this area helps address criticisms that Timken has been slow to add some of the industry's more profitable advanced condition monitoring systems, predictive maintenance systems, and related diagnostic and reliability services.
SKF has led the bearing industry for many years in this area, proving the value-added proposition in several key areas -- particularly CM, remote CM, troubleshooting and diagnostics -- is not only profitable but also serves to better leverage the company's existing customer base. Also unlike SKF, which has broken out a separate reporting division for its value-added services, Timken's are under Distribution and Services.
Timken's service, "will improve predictive maintenance activities for machinery used in heavy-industry and power-transmission markets, including metals, pulp and paper, food, mining, power generation, chemical processing and cement."
The move takes Timken into the market, head-to-head with similar services from SKF and others, offering wired, wireless, and web-based systems.
Timken describes the lineup and its customer advantages :
Chief among the service
| Product Model | Inside Diameter | Outside Diameter | Thickness |
| CSCC110 bearing | 279.4 | 298.45 | 9.525 |
| CSXG100 bearing | 254 | 304.8 | 25.4 |