With the FVA-Workbench, radial and axial plain bearings can be calculated using state-of-the-art scientific methods. The calculation methodology was developed over decades of research at the Institute of Tribology and Energy Conversion Machines at Clausthal University of Technology and has been verified and documented in numerous FVA research projects. Software expert Marcus Bisanz shows how plain bearings are modelled, parameterized and calculated with the FVA-Workbench.