ACORN® Insight
Keep up-to-date on the latest product and company news, along with useful information for the maintenance, repair and overhaul industry.

Sheila Celebrates 30 Years at ACORN!
It's '88, there's big hair and even bigger fashion statements (we have the pictures to prove it!). Most people are still recording every sale and piece of stock on paper - and as ACORN begins to grow, Sheila joins the team as an Office Assistant.

ACORN Aids In Success of Glenrothes-Based Bike Team
Congratulations to the Bikers Boutique Downhill Team at Leslie Bike Shop in Glenrothes on a successful 2018 season!

Four Reasons to Switch to Festo Automation Systems
Find out how ACORN and Festo Automation Systems can make your business as productive as possible.

SKF INSOCOAT Bearings For Rewinders
When an electric motor fails, there are two options. Either you replace the entire drive, or you rewind the existing motor by replacing its brushes and windings.

ACORN Split Downtime In Half With SKF Cooper’s Split-To-The-Shaft Bearings
Acorn Industrial Services Ltd are proud to have been awarded Authorised Distributor status for SKF Cooper bearings, completing the full range of SKF products available to customers.

Celebrating 50 years of Cooper Angled Pedestals
Many would argue that 1968 is the year that changed history. From the Vietnam war, to the civil rights movement, to the death of Martin Luther King Jr: 1968 changed the world forever.

What is Industry 4.0 and why is everyone talking about it?
Industry 4.0: it seems to be the topic on everyone's lips. But, what does it actually mean? In an age supposedly on the cusp of a 4th industrial revolution, why do you need to move into 'Industry 4.0' and how can you make it as easy and pain free as possible?

How do you tell if you’ve got a top quality Freudenberg radial shaft seal?
Picture this: you walk into your metal rolling mill and see your largest electric motor, sitting there in a puddle of oil. On closer inspection, it’s obvious to you that a replacement rotary shaft seal is what’s required, but where do you start?

SKF Introduces IMx-8 For Compact Machine Health Monitoring
SKF have unveiled their new Multilog online machine health monitoring system, IMx-8. This smaller condition monitoring system provides a complete system for early fault detection, allowing maintenance to be carried out proactively to reduce downtime.

How do you reduce machine downtime?
Downtime is costly whether its planned or unplanned, and the last thing you want is a component that is difficult to replace. Changing bearings that are in hard to reach locations, or surrounded by heavy equipment which is time consuming to dismantle, adds to costs and puts staff at risk of injury.