P900 Bearing 

With Timken's P900 bearings, we use the concept of power density – increasing the bearing capacity-to-weight ratio – to provide customers with a lighter, more fuel-efficient solution for industrial and automotive axle designs. In most high-load applications, P900 bearings perform more than 50 percent better than traditional bearings, cost-effectively improving your product’s performance and efficiency. They also have helped customers increase load-carrying capacity in a variety of applications.

Design Attributes

• Special finishes on rollers, cups and cones reduce surface-related modes of damage and improve rolling contact surface finish and fatigue life.
• Advanced geometry virtually eliminates edge stress concentrations caused by high loads or misalignment.
• Compact design allows for reduced dimensions of related components and can mean substantial savings, decreased inclusion content, prolonged bearing life, increased reliability and greater resistance to harsh operating conditions.

Applications

• Transmissions and drive axles for heavy truck and off-highway equipment
• Transmissions, transaxles, drive axles and other components for automotive applications
• Gear drives for industrial applications

P900 bearings meet industry demands for greater reliability, improved performance and extended life in power transmission designs that are smaller and operate at higher temperatures.

In applications where smaller size is an advantage, P900 bearings allow manufacturers to replace application-critical bearings with smaller bearings that handle the same load as the originals.

In Figure 1, the bearings with the enhanced geometry, under certain conditions of load and misalignment, perform more than four times better than their standard counterpart. In design applications limited by surface distress, our finishing process can increase bearing life more than four times, as shown in Figure 2.

Can’t decide which Timken high performance bearing is right for you? Contact your Timken sales representative, or compare our P900 offering to the other products in our high performance line using the chart below.

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