NES NEWS
NES Bearing Company, Inc. a complete bearing solutions provider specializing in custom bearings, bearing inspection and bearing testing, recently completed annual audits to renew the Olean, NY facility’s AS9100 Aerospace Standard for Quality Systems and ISO 9001 Quality Management System certifications. To maintain the AS9100 certification NES underwent an audit to ensure their quality assurance practices meet the requirements of the AS9100 Aerospace Standard for Quality Systems. AS9100 registration is required in order to provide products to the aerospace market. PRI conducted the audit in accordance with the AS9100 requirement for an annual renewal. NES also renewed their ISO 9001:2015…
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Napoleon Engineering Services (NES) is proud to announce that it has achieved accreditation by the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP) for Chemical Processing. NADCAP was created in 1990 by SAE Inc. and is administered by the not-for-profit Performance Review Institute (PRI), a global provider of customer focused solutions. NADCAP provides company level accreditation based on specific processes, such as chemical processing, used by aerospace suppliers. This accreditation means that NES is in line with NADCAP’s standardized approach to quality assurance, which replaces routine auditing with more in-depth, technically superior, special process audits, and it demonstrates NES’s commitment…
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The space industry thrives on the word “heritage”. Relying on historical designs, equipment, processes and suppliers results in known outcomes and reduced risks in the high stakes world of rocket launches. It’s hard to compete with that logic. But that hasn’t stopped Napoleon Engineering Services (NES) from going all in to support the commercial space industry with custom bearings for a wide variety of mission critical applications from turbo pumps, values, actuators and hydraulic power units to docking systems. The Olean, NY based custom bearing manufacturer has roots in the aircraft industry dating back to the 1990’s. That heritage has…
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When a Rolex knock-off one day disassembles on its owner’s wrist — caveat emptor, you get what you pay for. And when — say Walmart — gets stuck with a counterfeit $50 bill, it is duly noted and life goes on. But when a counterfeit bearing finds its way into the guts of a piece of heavy machinery, or a medical device, or a production line — the ramifications can be significant, if not deadly. Bearings are much like gears — they’re everywhere. Which ups the ante that there exist numerous applications possibilities for counterfeit bearings to impact performance and…
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Global manufacturing by original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and purchasing of bearings from global sources for industrial applications has skyrocketed over the last two decades. The playing field for the purchasing of bearings has changed significantly over this period of time. Historically, there were only a handful of bearing manufacturers who were called upon and trusted to supply bearings for high-reliability applications. Today there are many hundreds of bearing manufacturers claiming to provide the same level of quality and service. Furthermore, the top name bearing manufacturers have exponentially increased their global footprint to ensure their own sustainability within the global market.…
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