Bearings in Our Everyday Lives

Have you ever wondered how cars and other motor vehicles run smoothly and quietly? As a child, I have always been in awe of how these powerful machines work. Later on, I understood that these machines run smoothly with the help of smaller machines called bearings. Bearings are important to the machines we use everyday, [...]

Introduction Nice Ball Bearings

In 1902, William Nice founded one of the first “anti-friction” bearing manufacturing plants. Starting with unground ball types and developing into the ground field, RBC NICE today produces a complete line of precision ground, semi-ground, and unground bearings and bearing assemblies.
To choose the exact bearing you need, start with the NICE® line of standard inch-dimension, [...]

What Are Magnetic Bearings?

Bearings are used to create frictionless movement between two parts. There is a wide variety of bearings including ball bearings, needle bearings, thrust bearings and even magnetic bearings. What is a magnetic bearing? Well as the name suggests it is a bearing that supports its load using magnetic forces rather than using mechanical contact. Usually [...]