To be successful in the assembly and control machinery dedicated to bearings and ball screws, a manufacturer must possess several effective features, including high-quality machines, competitive pricing, wide range of products, technical expertise and a customer-centric approach.
Thanks to a team of skilled engineers and technicians and through few selected long-term partners in Italy, Elite can provide technical support to the customers and can help them to solve problems and to catch opportunities for assembly machinery and automation within bearings industry. By smart and effective solutions that allow superior precision and the highest reliability and productivity, Elite’s offer consists of a customer-centric approach that is translated into customized solutions (tailored to meet the specific needs of customers) rather than in standardized machines.
Furthermore, Elite’s partners use the latest technology in the production of machinery and invests heavily in research and development to ensure that the products are at the forefront of technological innovation. Despite the focus on quality and technology, the company offers competitive pricing for its solutions and is committed to providing value to its customers. Few examples of value addition provided to customers are the following ones:
Ø Solutions to complex assembly processes both for ball and roller bearings;
Ø Control of high precision tolerances, e.g. visual, dimensional (with and without contact) and eddy current checks;
Ø Very short machine times for very large volume productions.
Elite’s offer includes also test benches and custom-tailored machines in the aeronautical, industrial and medical sectors. Machines are sold with the "turnkey" formula.
Examples of test benches made in the years are for the following applications / products: 
o Ball screws, roller screws, planetary roller screws, trapezoidal screws;
o Ball and roller bearings;
o Gearbox, bevel gearbox and transmission axles;
o Linear and rotary systems (tables, modules, sliding guides, pistons);
o Measurement of stiffness and deformation of mechanical structures and shafts;
o Motion simulator for railway carriages and locomotives;
o Hydraulic cylinders, pipes, pumps and motors;
o Vehicle and motor vehicle suspensions;
o High performance climatic chambers;
o Endurance and performance of brakes;
o Measurement of motor torque.
For the bearings manufacturing process, additional examples of customized machinery made along the years are the following ones:
§ Hard metal machining of rings;
§ Automatic screw lapping machine;
§ Pass-through or off line type demagnetizers (both for rings, rollers, balls and assembled bearings);
§ Automatic penetrant liquids inspection;
§ Hot and cold riveting of the bearing cages;
§ Induction heating bearing assembly;
§ Assembly of nuts and micro-screws with recirculating balls and rollers;
§ Automatic assembly (pairing) of ball bearings;
§ Automatic assembly of cylindrical, needle and taper roller bearings;
§ Robotic handling and processing systems.
The above machinery can be organized in specific cells (value streams) with aim to reduce the non-value-added activities, to maximize the manpower productivity and the output. Elite engineers can support clients to study the most valuable lay-out and can train the operators both to the best usage of the machinery as well as to the implementation of lean thinking methods in any type of process.
