August - 2015
A leading Midwest seamless tube piercing steel mill was experiencing repetitive OEM universal joint knuckle failures on their mandrel and piercing mills. The original OEM universal joint knuckles would catastrophically fail without warning, turning rollers and other component fragments into projectiles, which created a major safety concern. Failures were
unpredictable, with some breaking down in days, weeks, or months, creating substantial delays and often shutting down production.
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