SMART Lifting [Oct 2011]

November 11, 2011 6:44 am

Condition monitoring, remote monitoring service, wizard-assisted start-up – all standard features in the new SMARTON process crane – take safety and reliability to a new level. The objective for the SMARTON crane is to take the calculation of the service life of critical components to a new level. SMARTON can help you to prepare for the future by analysing the past
The new SMARTON process crane provides smart safety and maintenance features that up until now have not been available as standard features in this crane size range. User-friendliness and reliability were key words when the SMARTON crane was designed. Special attention has been paid to enabling correct timing of maintenance tasks.
The SMARTON crane records its usage data automatically, storing the runtimes, number of starts and cycles, average loads, machinery temperatures, and other important values on its graphical touch-screen service panel, which is located in the electric cubicle door on the crane bridge. The crane also computes estimates of its own condition, generating different safe working period values which the crane operator can check from the service panel. All alarms and indications of their locations are also displayed on the service panel.
Comparison of condition monitoring values with design parametersSophisticated lifetime calculation formulas have been defined for the most important components of the SMARTON crane, such as the hoist, the hoist brake, the hoist wire rope and the trolley steel structures. By comparing these designed working periods with the cranes actual usage monitoring data, it is possible to analyse the condition of the crane, and to make recommendations on the timing of the necessary maintenance and inspection measures.

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