Manufacturing and Engineering

PEER’s approach to manufacturing and engineering is a synergistic approach based on meeting our customer needs. At PEER, we offer flexible and responsive manufacturing solutions that use carefully monitored process controls. Our application engineering and research and development teams are focused on your business creating the optimal solution to meet your performance goals while looking for opportunities to reduce the expense of bearings used in your specific applications. We offer a wide array of testing services for our customers to achieve desired bearing performance results.

Application Engineering

PEER’s knowledgeable and industry focused application engineers collaborate with your technical team to select the best bearing solution to meet the needs of your application. Our flexibility and willingness to customize solutions help our customers achieve their applications performance goals and reduce cost.
Services provided by the PEER Application Engineering Team include:

• Bearing application calculation and analysis
• Romax and FEA analysis
• Bearing Feature Selection
• Shaft and Housing fit Selection
• CAD prints and 3D models
• Analysis and Reporting of bearings removed from service

PEER’s team is skilled in applications that involve a complex system of shafts and bearings, such as transmissions. Our Application Engineers employ sophisticated calculation tools to effectively model misalignment conditions, complex duty cycles and lubricant conditions to more accurately predict bearing life in the application.

For applications involving harsh contamination such as Agricultural, Lawn and Garden and Material Handling, etc., the knowledge of the PEER Application Engineering staff and the vast possibilities of industry proven seal designs can be leveraged to keep out contaminants in the most severe environments.
Specialization by industry allows PEER Application Engineers to understand application requirements, typical bearing performance expectations and market trends. This allows PEER to stay on the cutting edge of product development for the PEER target industries.

Quality Management Systems

At PEER, product and service quality are given the highest priority. Our employees receive training on quality methods and principles. At every level within the organization, we are engaged in improving product quality and processes. This deep level of commitment has helped us to earn our customer trust and grow globally as a brand of choice. We invite audits of our facilities by our customers.

PEER’s Focus:

• The PEER distribution facility is ISO 9001 certified by SAI Global. Our manufacturing facilities are IATF 16949 certified by TÜV Rheinland.
• Application of Lean philosophies to reengineer business processes to eliminate non value added steps
• Decision making practices based on sound data
• Developing partnerships from customer to supply chain

Research and Development

PEER’s Research and Development organization is dedicated to creation of products specifically for individual customer applications, development of new and cost effective bearing solutions to satisfy industry needs, evaluation of products to measure performance and reporting fact-based results to support PEER’s full product line. Using advanced testing equipment, concepts can be validated quickly and accurately ensuring faster release to market.

In addition, the R&D team will also collaborate with our manufacturing plants to support and validate cost reduction concepts, an important element to ensure PEER’s global competitiveness.

Our Research and Development Focus:

• Product Development
• Materials Research
• Advanced Calculation Tools to predict Bearing performance
• Product Testing
• Product Performance Analysis

Industry specific testing equipment includes:

• Fatigue life testing for ball and roller bearings
• Mud Slurry
• Salt Spray
• Hardness
• Tensile and Metallurgical Analysis

“The PEER Research and Development Center is a new facility for PEER featuring the ability to test a larger product size range, an expansion in research equipment and enhanced work flow. This new capability represents a new “weapon” for PEER in the highly-competitive global bearing market. This investment demonstrates PEER’s commitment to the growth of the PEER brand globally.” Xiangya Luo, PEER’s Engineering and R & D Director.

Manufacturing Facilities

PEER is committed to utilizing advanced manufacturing technologies to produce the highest quality bearings needed for our customers. These advanced technologies include heat treatment processes, grinding and automated assembly production lines. Our manufacturing facilities produce bearings that are carefully monitored utilizing in-line statistical process controls.

Our production line supervisors and engineers are trained through the Bearing Institute and are capable of continuously implementing improved production processes for bearing manufacturing. When required, products can be designed and manufactured to customers’ unique specifications to achieve the performance demanded by the applications.

Our Plant Certifications include:

• ISO/TS 16949:2009
• ISO 14001:2004
• OHSAS 18001:2007