Reduce Automotive Bearing Weight by Nearly 80% With Plastic Bearings

Wondering how you can reduce weight in automotive manufacturing? Sebastian Bloechl, Head of Automotive at igus® North America, shows off one such way in this video: making the switch from metal plain bearings to plastic plain bearings. Plastic bearings can weigh up to five times less than metal bearings, making them an ideal way to reduce automotive weight.

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00:00:00 [Music] hi there i'm sebastian blescher head of automotive phrygis in north america and today i would like to talk about weight reduction inside of the automotive industry [Music] reducing weight of components and applications inside of the automotive industry is one of the main drivers

00:00:33 every little gram has an immediate impact of the efficiency and also on the range of the vehicle but also the handling for everybody involved will be easier and an improved environmental transportation footprint will be reached but how to reduce weight and for that i've brought two bearings with me one is a standard metal bearing and the other one is an igus

00:00:59 self-replicating polymer bearing and we want to compare the weight between them so let's start with the metal bearing and this weights around 80 gram and it feels already massive okay let's see how many igus bearings will have the same weight

00:01:21 this is around 15 gram so two and three and four okay we're getting closer five wow five igus bearings with the similar weight of only one metal

00:01:41 bearing that's incredible think about a car seat 30 bearings per seat that adds up to a huge weight reduction opportunity to see how much weight you can save in your application get in contact with us and for a free sample box check the link in the description below [Music] you