Maintenance Strategies for Overhead Cranes and Lifting Equipment

Maintenance Strategies for Overhead Cranes and Lifting Equipment

Overhead Crane and Lifting  Equipment Maintenance Strategies

Overhead cranes and associated lifting equipment need to be well maintained for safety and business reasons. Regulations and Standards apply that set the minimum requirements for maintenance of this type of equipment, that often performs critical operational functions within a business.

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Topics for Discussion

·           Outsourcing crane maintenance

·           Using crane maintenance service providers and how best to manage them

·           Managing major Inspections & Crane Re-certification

·           Incident reporting and crane/ people interactions

·           Maintenance Strategies, lubrication & CM for Cranes

·           Rope, hook, pulley & limit inspections

·           Maintenance of chains, slings, lifting frames,

·           Maintenance and overhaul of hoist & brake systems

·           Maintaining crane motors and gearboxes

·           Crane cabins, emergency egress and operator controls issues

·           Crane electrical systems including controls, power supplier, catenary systems

·           Structural and corrosion issues and resultant inspections

·           Planning and scheduling and managing maintenance outages for cranes

·           Australian Standards and Crane Legislation issues

·           Managing the statutory inspection requirements for cranes

·           Wheel maintenance and minimizing wear

·           Pre-start operator inspections

·           Training for crane operators

·           Processes for improving crane driver skill, behavior & minimizing operator damage

·           Engaging operators in crane maintenance & reliability issues

·           Training for crane maintenance personnel

hoist’s maintenance strategy

ABB’s maintenance support agreement is a flexible, scalable contract structure that meets each instal lifecycle maintenance strategy. It covers the entire spectrum of user and system needs throughout the lifecycle.

As a worldwide leading hoist systems supplier we have learnt a lot from our customers about their da maintenance needs:

−−All of our customers manage at least some level of in-house maintenance and rely on vendor-provi to support their maintenance activities

−−Most of our customers employ outside resources to fill gaps in the capabilities and capacity in their maintenance staff

−−Many customers rely on vendors to provide customized personnel training to help maintain skills f system maintenance as well as for advanced learning

−−Customers expect effective vendor supplied evolution and upgrade programs to help them take adv new functionality and to manage product lifecycle status changes

−−Predictable spare parts costs are important to all system owners

−−System application engineers are often employed to modify the user interface and process control configurations to address changing process requirements

All the above needs became the backbone of our consistent approach to maintenance agreement offer

Maintenance support agreements

In a study of the maintenance style and service needs of our customers, we learned even more about t service requirements. This information was used to develop a more comprehensive service contract st maintenance support agreement. This structure provides scalability and value through the bundling of best meet your outsourced maintenance needs.

Service levels

Multiple servcie levels are available for each identified key service requirement. This flexibility allow build an agreement to provide the right amount of service, based upon your in-house capability and st example, level 4 services accommodate customers who rely heavily on ABB knowledge and expertise customers, who maintain their own comprehensive skills and capacity for in-house maintenance, may level 1 or complimentary level services. A short description of the maintenance support agreement co found on the back page of this flyer. The detailed scope of supply for each group of services is depend service level chosen by each customer.

ABB’s maintenance support agreements cover the whole hoist system, including: −−drive system.

−−control system. −−advant hoist monitors. −−hydraulic brake units.

−−weighing control systems.

−−low and medium voltage supply systems (switchgears and transformers).

Improving your operational excellence and performance. ABB’s maintenance support agreement struc based upon the key customer requirements outlined in the table below.

As a worldwide leading hoist systems supplier we have learnt a lot from our customers about their da maintenance needs:

−−All of our customers manage at least some level of in-house maintenance and rely on vendor-provi to support their maintenance activities

−−Most of our customers employ outside resources to fill gaps in the capabilities and capacity in their maintenance staff

−−Many customers rely on vendors to provide customized personnel training to help maintain skills f system maintenance as well as for advanced learning

−−Customers expect effective vendor supplied evolution and upgrade programs to help them take adv new functionality and to manage product lifecycle status changes

−−Predictable spare parts costs are important to all system owners

−−System application engineers are often employed to modify the user interface and process control configurations to address changing process requirements

All the above needs became the backbone of our consistent approach to maintenance agreement offer

 Maintenance support agreements

In a study of the maintenance style and service needs of our customers, we learned even more about t service requirements. This information was used to develop a more comprehensive service contract st maintenance support agreement. This structure provides scalability and value through the bundling of best meet your outsourced maintenance needs.

Service levels

Multiple servcie levels are available for each identified key service requirement. This flexibility allow build an agreement to provide the right amount of service, based upon your in-house capability and st example, level 4 services accommodate customers who rely heavily on ABB knowledge and expertise customers, who maintain their own comprehensive skills and capacity for in-house maintenance, may level 1 or complimentary level services. A short description of the maintenance support agreement co found on the back page of this flyer. The detailed scope of supply for each group of services is depend service level chosen by each customer.

ABB’s maintenance support agreements cover the whole hoist system, including: −−drive system.

−−control system. −−advant hoist monitors. −−hydraulic brake units.

−−weighing control systems.

−−low and medium voltage supply systems (switchgears and transformers).