The Educational Services Committee of the Bearing Specialists Association (BSA) has released the first in a new series of industry-specific educational publications, referred to as Industry Briefs, which are intended to enhance the association’s existing Bearing Briefs by identifying bearing selection specifics used by individual industries.

The BSA Industry Brief: Poultry Process, details the use of bearings in poultry processing and is available for downloading as both a PowerPoint presentation and a PDF from the BSA members-only website, and as a PDF from the public website, bsahome.org,under Tools You Can Use.

Specifically, the Industry Brief maps the poultry process and identifies particular requirements for bearings. For example, in the receiving process, the Brief points out: “This application is subjected to shock loads that require rugged cast iron construction pillow block and four-bolt flanged bearings. Corrosion-resistant bearings are usually not required at this stage of the process.” Subsequent processes considered in this brief — slaughter, scalding and chilling — are given comparable consideration.

The Educational Services Committee hopes to address bearing selection specifics in various additional industries in subsequent Industry Briefs. The BSA Industry Brief: Poultry Process was approved at the association’s 2009 Annual Convention.

BSA is an international service and educational organization of distributors representing a total of almost 100 companies distributing factory-warranted ball-, roller-, and anti-friction bearings and invited manufacturers of bearings and related products. For more information, call 630-858-3838, e-mail info@bsahome.orgor visit bsahome.org.