Communicator

Smoother. Faster. Longer. Because That's How We Roll. www.rbcbearings.com 800.390.3300 P Automation P Construction P Food & Beverage P Material Handling P Mining P Oil & Gas P Packaging Machinery P Refuse & Recycling P Renewable Energy P Military & Defense P Power Generation P Robotics P Semiconductor P Transportation P Hydropower & Dams RBC manufactures highly engineered precision plain, roller and ball bearings, shaft collars, rigid couplings and keyless locking devices. While RBC designs and manufactures products in these major product categories, RBC excels at solving the most demanding and difficult applications with solutions that improve customers' products and process performance and deliver the lowest total cost of ownership. COMMUNICATOR 19 despite each shop being unique, we collabor- ate in order to provide what the other doesn't have. So there's never an instance when we can't do what a customer wants." Every step of the way, mechanical and technological capabilities are matched by staff acumen. "We have a fairly small shop and warehouse at 10,000 square feet, but my crew has a combined 150-plus years of experience," says Carl Simard, branch manager of QC10 in Saguenay, Quebec. "This is especially important considering that, these days, our customers are expected to do more with less, and rely on us to help them deliver." The different specialties of Motion shops inspire relative newcomers to develop their own direction. Case in point: Heavy equip- ment specialist Kyle Mazer was recruited by Motion in 2015 to open a shop in a 10,000-square-foot warehouse in Saskatoon. He says, "I received enormous help from Mark Tinis at TechCan Services in Edmonton and Ian Miller in Calgary, and because Tech- Can is renowned as the gearbox guys and Calgary for its hydraulic capabilities, I decided my shop would be a hybrid of the two." Mazer was also impressed by the scale of some of Motion's facilities: for example, TechCan's 18,900 square feet of shop space is equipped with two 15-ton overhead cranes, an 80-ton portable gantry crane, two two-ton gantry cranes, a 30,000-pound forklift, a water jet cutting table, a welding area, a parts washer, hydraulic torquing equipment, two computerized numerical control (CNC) machines, and other equipment for cutting, machining and grinding. With this inventory, TechCan has assem- bled machines that weigh in excess of 250,000 pounds (sizers that crush mined ore for oil sands sites are one example); how- ever, its crew's experience with drive systems and material handling enables them to also design and manufacture drive packages and conveying systems. And as a prime example of value-added capabilities, TechCan's engin- eers can effortlessly review machinery and bearing system issues for root causes of "In an ever-changing marketplace, versatility, adaptability and flexibility are some of the key ingredients to our continued success" ~ Steve Pieterse, manager, Hamilton branch, Motion Canada

• Cover