Bearing specialists require independent tools which provide cutting-edge rolling element bearing analysis. These tools will provide them with insight required to design and select bearings for optimum performance and durability, as part of a whole system model.
Romax Spin provides this insight, through optimised contact algorithms that offer speed and accuracy, and integrates with the Romax Nexus product family, enabling greater collaboration within organisations and with suppliers.
Founded on 30 years of bearing expertise, and with a fantastic network of strong partners within the bearing industry, Romax Technology are the obvious choice for bearing suppliers and experts. That’s why the world’s top six bearing manufacturers use our software and services.
What’s new in R20?
The R20 release of Romax Spin ensures that Romax’s bearing simulation remains highly accurate and detailed, to allow OEMs and bearing suppliers to obtain insightful results that can be relied upon to make design decisions.
- Roller bearing subsurface stress – unique, fast, validated capability to assist in determining a suitable case hardening treatment that balances cost and reliability.
- New bearing database from Nachi-Fujikoshi.
- Connection manager introduced to speed up the modelling of complex shaft arrangements, with automatic detection of connection locations, and to aid auditing of connections to reduce modelling errors
- Memory and speed improvements for FE components resulting in faster model loading, managing of large FE components and more efficient memory usage.
- Import reference geometry directly from CAD for effective visualisation and communication.
- Additional summary reports for backlash and material properties, useful for model auditing and checking.
- New bearing load capacity inputs for Romax Advanced life calculations.
- Clip selection and view manager improvements.
For more information on new features in R20, join our release webinar.
ENGINEERING INSIGHT
Easily and quickly build a full parametric electro-mechanical system model, including motors, gears, shafts, housings and bearings.
Cutting-edge rolling element bearing analytical methods give the insight required to design and select bearings for optimum performance and durability, as part of a system model.
Online bearing catalogues from SKF, Schaeffler, Timken and JTEKT give access to more than 60,000 bearings. Alternatively, bearings can be custom-edited or designed from scratch.
ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS
Advanced, integrated analysis of rolling element bearings to give unrivalled insight into bearing performance, enable optimal bearing selection and avoid premature bearing failures.
- Full system deflection, load analysis and bearing misalignments
- Accurate prediction of element and raceway stresses, rib contact, edge stress, and contact truncation
- Advanced fatigue life methods
- Roller bearing time domain simulation to understand dynamic behaviour and avoid new, non-conventional failure modes
BETTER COLLABORATION
Romax Spin works seamlessly across the Romax Nexus product family – models can be shared with engineers focusing on system durability, efficiency, NVH and electrification to encourage truly collaborative working across the organisation and beyond.
Bearing suppliers and their customers can now work more collaboratively and more independently, using the same tools and sharing data.
Users can create and share their own bearings databases, with IP protection for sensitive details.
Feature Highlight: Romax Bearing Dynamics
With the rise of electric vehicles, bearings are operating under increasingly high speeds. Combined with low load conditions, this can lead to a dynamic phenomenon known as bearing skidding. In certain circumstances, bearing skidding can generate excessive frictional heat and high surface shear stress, and subsequently result in efficiency issues or premature bearing failure.
Romax’s Bearing Dynamics application uses a novel approach based on transient time-domain analysis to predict the occurrence of skidding in electric-vehicle bearings in a matter of minutes. The model considers structural, thermal and fluid domains, including the influence of centrifugal and gyroscopic effects on rolling- element dynamics, heat generated by the lubricant and associated temperature rise, and rheology and traction behaviour of the lubricating oil.
This application helps design engineers and bearing analysts to avoid damaging failures by designing more reliable bearings and selecting better lubricants, through unique insight of the underlying skidding mechanism and bearing dynamics.
“For us, what’s most important is that we can support our customers with correct bearing life calculations in order to prevent future bearing failures and claims. Our investment in the software is well worth the huge costs at risk with such issues. [Romax Software] gives us the confidence to design bearings which we know will perform to our high standards of quality. We envisage we will use it for many years to come.”
“[Romax software] allows us to meet the needs of our customers quickly, effectively, and professionally.
Our customers are happy when they can rely on us to design customized bearings for a particular application, optimize existing designs, and suggest effective solutions. The most important thing for us is that we can trust the results that [Romax Software] gives us, which means we can confidently implement geometric optimizations and design a product suitable for its application.”
“Romax has a strong bearing simulation capacity. We have developed a long-term collaboration with Romax and have significantly benefited from our communication with them, especially in some special fields with special development requirements, such as large bearings, high speed bearings and journal bearings. As a very professional bearing development software, [Romax Software] is an important tool in our design and development process”
The Romax Nexus platform aligns with your powertrain and transmission development cycle, from rapid modelling and concept exploration to detailed simulation and virtual product sign-off. Watch the video or click below to learn more about Romax Nexus.
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