James Lang – General Manager, Konecranes Training Institute
Overload protection is a reliable way to elevate safety
Today’s pressure to achieve ever-increasing productivity leads to ever-expanding demands on your crane equipment. Now, more than ever, it’s important to protect your crane and your employees from dangerous overload situations.
Ben Begley, District Technical Trainer
Improved crane safety, greater productivity, more flexibility: radio controls for cranes offer crane operators all of these benefits and more across a range of applications. Not only can radio controls free operators from the confines of a cab, but from crane pendant control cables as well.
Petteri Ijas - Senior Sales Manager, Crane Service, Finland
Cranes have evolved significantly over the last few decades. While some operations soldier on with the same lifting equipment they’ve used for years, others surge ahead, taking advantage of current technology offered on newer cranes.
Lifecycle Care is our comprehensive and systematic approach to maintenance, supported by world-class tools and processes. In order to deliver Lifecycle Care in Real Time, we use the Industrial Internet, connecting data, machines and people.
Retrofits are a relatively easy and economical way to add current features and technologies to your existing overhead crane. Common retrofits are hoist replacements, the addition of radio pendants, LED lighting and traveling drives with inverters. Compared to modernizations, retrofits typically require much less pre-planning and downtime.
Lifecycle Care is a systematic, consistent, comprehensive and professional approach to crane maintenance that is supported by world-class tools and processes.
For a United States Navy-owned ballistics facility, top-security is always a consideration—even when it comes to overhead cranes. “We perform several jobs there throughout the year, but we have limited access to areas within in the facility,” said Joe Henry, branch manager at Konecranes. “For example, in the new building, we put a small Konecranes CXT overhead crane, but we do not have access to know the crane’s exact application.”
We provide specialized maintenance services and spare parts for all types and makes of industrial cranes, hoists, machine tools, and port equipment -- from a single piece of equipment to entire operations.
Joshua Childers - Technical Training Manager
So why choose one particular inverter over another? The simple answer is intelligence.
Corrective maintenance is carried out after a fault is detected and is aimed at restoring your crane to a condition in which it can perform its intended function. Retrofits are a relatively easy and economical way to add current features and technologies to your existing overhead crane.
