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Timken Research has three areas of technology responsibilities:

  • research - bearings and steel
  • bearing product and process development
  • steel product and process development
These three areas combine to support The Timken Company and its customer base worldwide. The Timken Research facility is located near the company's Canton, Ohio headquarters. The facility is approximately 250,000 square feet and houses professional and technical staff of 300. An annual budget of $50 million supports the technology activities of both the Bearing and Steel Businesses.

A complete range of manufacturing processes is available within Timken Research, including a tool room, heat treatment, steel making (rolling mill) and prototype bearing manufacturing. Specialized laboratories are dedicated to the sciences of metrology, electronics and lubrication/tribology. A technical library supports all research efforts. CAD, FEA (finite element analysis) modeling and advanced bearing design are also performed within the facilities.

Testing equipment is continually used to test bearing products from all Timken Company manufacturing facilities to ensure Timken quality standards are maintained. Customer application simulation testing, plus testing for new products and processes are performed.

Research:
Key Component of Timken Company Leadership

The Timken Company maintains a formidable research and development capability that combines strength in fundamental science with a solid base of practical knowledge. The goal of Timken Research is mastery of every technical development that might lead to improved products and processes. The result is a constantly expanding capability in those areas.

To sustain our global leadership in tapered roller bearings and specialty alloy steels, research is conducted on three distinct levels:

  • basic investigation
  • applied research
  • advanced product and process design.
In Timken Research laboratories, these three levels of research operate sequentially to transform scientific knowledge into advanced products and processes our customers must have to maintain their own leadership positions.

Solving a new problem sometimes calls for basic research into the scientific fundamentals of bearing technology or alloy steel production and processing. In addition, the new understandings acquired can play a role in the discovery of new products or process refinements.

Applied research is aimed at focusing the underlying scientific principles on meeting customer needs. In many cases, the primary knowledge and work already have been accomplished by us or others through emerging technology. We add the refinements necessary to transform our understanding into specific products or processes to solve customer problems.

When the technology is already available, we work to convert this knowledge into efficient, innovative production procedures. We may use existing manufacturing machines and instruments or we may develop entirely new equipment.

Timken Research solves customer problems and contributes to the evolving capabilities of The Timken Company. Development of revolutionary manufacturing processes has made the company's bearing operations a model of 21st century technology. And research and development associates played a leadership role in defining technologies for the Faircrest Steel Plant, which produces the finest quality alloy steel available anywhere in the world.

Spurred by a corporate culture that demands continual effort to find a better way, the talented and dedicated people of Timken Research deliver the products and processes required for success in the highly competitive markets of today and tomorrow.



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