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Well, as it turns out, it looks like BMW is imagining some other type of future where the single human is the primary form of transportation.

Apparently, the future is like that of Rollerball, but without the bloodsport. Everyone is rollerblading, but their wheel bearings boots have these ball-bearing soles that are hopefully retractable.

See that space helmet in front of the user’s eyes? Apparently, it is some sort of semi transparent wraparound display that will display real-time directions and traffic information.

Of course, I would imagine that there would be a lot accidents on the real-time directions, because this mode of Clutch Release Bearings transportation looks pretty dang dangerous! Seriously, do you see a future where everyone is skating around like the last scene of Gleaming the Cube? Seriously, do you? Because I’ve never seen Gleaming the Cube, but I would imagine that’s how it ended.

What’s funny is that this isn’t the only one of these future transports. I think one of them is these four-wheeled jobs that look a little safer, but resemble soap box racers.

Well, at least these ball bearing shows don’t require any gas, however, they will need some grease.

Neolithic engineers may have used ball bearings in the construction of Stonehenge, it has been claimed.
The same technique that allows vehicles and machinery to run smoothly could have been used to transport the monument’s massive standing stones more than 4,000 years ago, according to a new theory.
Scientists showed how balls placed in grooved wooden tracks would have allowed the easy movement of stones weighing many tons.

Neolithic engineers may have used ball bearings in the construction of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, claim experts from the University of Exeter.

Scientists showed how balls placed in grooved wooden tracks would have allowed the easy movement of stones weighing many tonnes.

Nobody has yet explained successfully how the heavy slabs used to build Stonehenge more than 4,000 years ago were shifted from their quarries to Salisbury Plain.

Some, the “bluestones”, weighed four tonnes each and were brought a distance of 150 miles from Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Attempts to re-enact the transporting of the blocks on wooden rollers or floating them on the sea have not proved convincing. The hard surfaces and trenches needed when using rollers would have left marks on the landscape, but none is there.

Experts hit on their new theory after examining mysterious stone balls found near similar monuments in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. About the size of a cricket ball, they are precisely fashioned to be within a millimetre of the same size, suggesting they were meant to be used together rather than individually.

U.S. Fortune 500 companies, one of the three largest bearing manufacturer Timken’s U.S. business was officially settled in Hunan. Yesterday morning, in Xiangtan Hi-tech Zone, nearly 3 billion investment in electric iron Muken Xiang (Hunan) Bearings Co., Ltd. opened.

The company by the Timken Company and the Hunan Electric shares (25.08,0.25,1.01%) joint venture, in which the former accounted for 80% of shares, which accounted for 20%. The Timken Company as part of its strategy in China, the new plant will manufacture large auto bearings that will help meet China’s renewable energy industries, especially the growing market demand for wind power generators.

According to Timken, president of China Ping Shilong, the new company invested nearly $ 40,000,000, but employs only 100 people, is the standard capital-intensive enterprises. The main production nearly 2-meter diameter Timken double row tapered roller bearings. Following the October 28, 2008 groundbreaking, the new plant began in January 2009 to start construction in early May 2010 and delivered the first batch of bearings. New plant design and operation of environmental protection will save each year and nearly 100 million tons of coal 3 billion cubic meters of water, central and southern regions in China is expected to become the first company to receive LEED (Energy and Environmental Design certification) of green plants.

Xiangtan Hi-tech Zone and the Work Committee, said Xiao Ke, Xiangtan Hi-tech Zone will provide a nanny service. According to him, wind generators manufacturing industry clusters have become a feature of Xiangtan Hi-tech Zone, in 2009, the park composed of 16 key enterprises in Xiangtan City of wind turbine generator  manufacturing industry, technology innovation and strategic alliances, 24 family traditions gathered in high-tech zone electric auxiliary enterprises , co-established the Union of Hunan power supporting to achieve the output value of the wind power industry grew 400%.

Since 1992, Timken has always insisted on advanced products, technology and innovation to China, currently has about 3,000 employees. Companies in 13 major cities in Greater China set up offices at all levels, and the establishment of six large manufacturing base, a high-end one-stop sales and service power transmission products distribution company, a number of logistics and service centers, committed to service domestic and international clients

Japan’s NTN (NTN) Co., Ltd. is the world’s third-largest bearing maker, is also the world’s precision machinery industry giant, the world’s top 500 enterprises. Its leading products are widely used in bearing aerospace, aviation, transportation, auto bearings  manufacturing, medical equipment, power generation and other fields, artificial heart small enough to only a few microns in non-contact bearings, large diameter of 6.5 meters on Wandun Lun the giant bearings . In 2000, NTN entered the Chinese market, the country now has nine plants, five branch offices, and yesterday the establishment of the Nanjing branch and the upcoming construction of development zones in the Jiangning Bin Jiang production base, will be established in China NTN 6 branches and 10 factories.

Shen Jian in Nanjing on NTN welcome. He said that Nanjing has a solid basis for the equipment Cylindrical Roller Bearings manufacturing industry, particularly in the automotive, rail transportation, wind power generation in the domestic leading position, while more than 70 universities in Nanjing, with a strong human resources development for enterprises of all class professionals, Nanjing, NTN will provide the best services for Clutch R ease Bearings enterprise development to create the best environment, I hope Jiangning Bin Jiang factory started as early as possible, put into operation as soon as possible, to achieve mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.

Chinese consumers for high-demand vehicles attracting more and more global automotive manufacturers new models into the domestic market. Car industry on the domestic parts industry products and research and development requirements up to a considerable height, which led directly to the field of auto parts is a huge market with advanced technologies and products occupied by multinational companies. In the bearing industry, the world has a auto  bearing manufacturer with high-precision bearings key auto parts (mainly for the engine, transmission, wheel hub) production technology, the actively building capacity in China, while production systems, but also through the wholly-owned subsidiary, reorganization merger business in China to achieve their own decisions, etc., a monopoly on high-end market. The world’s leading multinational companies such as SKF bearings, Schaeffler, Timken, NSK, the Czech Republic have been too Gert such joint ventures or wholly owned plants in China, domestic competition, international competition became the main characteristics of bearings.
Meanwhile, demand in foreign markets, driven by the domestic parts industry networks by enterprises large exports of automotive bearing products platform. According to well-known e-commerce platform for auto parts and Statistics, 1 June 2010, the frequency of bearing products export reached 295, and showed significant increase Auto Bearings-Wheel Bearings-Ball Bearings-Clutch Release Bearings-Automotive bearings.
Innovation and customer resources to expand the competition to win in two ways
According to statistics, 75.2% of the local bearing supplier focused on development and international aftermarket sales, 21.3% of the enterprises are mainly to provide services for the domestic commercial vehicle, while only 13.5% of the company made it clear that the global passenger car OEMs supplier . Bearing the face of the domestic status of vendor and cross-bearing manufacturer aggressive posture, bearing our own brand manufacturers to grasp the situation in the domestic car market hot, open the domestic market sales, became the thinking and exploration of local suppliers a major problem.
First, the domestic bearing business should adhere to independent innovation, promote the path of introducing, absorption, digestion and re-innovation of the road. Through joint ventures, learn advanced technology, help from big to strong bearing industry in China. To improve the quality of products, or else be willing to retreat in the low-end market, not simply strive for the improvement of productivity, but to step up in technological innovation, technological progress and changes in sectoral economic growth efforts.
Second, enterprises should be good at bearing its own brand through a variety of effective marketing channels to expand the company’s customer resources, diversify its customer base. Automotive bearings supporting the main commercial products for businesses, to actively supporting the field into the car, through various channels to attract the attention of domestic OEMs. At the same time, bearing enterprises to analyze their own competitive advantage, based on little more patience to come in contact with potential customers to understand their real needs.