Benefits of a Comprehensive AMC for your Crane

Regular maintenance is critical in your equipment’s extended useful life, along with reduced downtime and overall operations costs. Still, many businesses overlook and often are in a dilemma to invest in a long-term maintenance strategy until it becomes an emergency and affects your production schedule. 

A Comprehensive Annual Maintenance Contract (CAMC) offers many benefits across vast industries and applications.  

1. Fixed Costs

Reactive maintenance planning can sometimes spiral into unwanted costs that significantly affect your annual budget. A comprehensive annual maintenance contract helps you account for and control all your maintenance costs on a fixed basis for long term. CAMC helps reduce the variability in your entire maintenance budget, enabling you to reallocate your funds to other areas of your business without fearing having a shortfall elsewhere. 

2. Easily Access to maintenance experts

A maintenance contract ensures you have access to an expert in every situation. The contract offers a safeguard to your equipment with an option to have an expert experienced technician to solve any and every maintenance-related problem. 

3. Holistic approach

A CAMC enables you to take a holistic approach toward all aspects of your maintenance requirements. It also offers numerous logistical benefits that lead to an improved bottom line. 

4. Improved equipment life

Many times, the term ‘maintenance’ is associated only with addressing breakdowns and repairs of the equipment as and when they arise. However, maintenance should be a continuous process and part of the system that keeps your equipment in top operating conditions round the clock. The contract gives you access to a genuine spare inventory and also offers replacement of the same. A CAMC is a long-term contract designed to provide the resources that improve the operational capabilities of the equipment, resulting in enhanced production efficiency. 

5. Minimizes Downtime

Adding to the benefits of scheduled and regular maintenance, a CAMC helps to reduce or eliminate production downtime due to equipment breakdowns/malfunctions. The holistic and long-term approach of the maintenance contract helps in planning for downtime and scheduled maintenance during the shutdown period of the production process. 

6. Focused mind

Often, the management has the least priority for maintenance and finds itself in a spot, completing critical maintenance tasks at the last minute, negatively affecting the equipment and other areas of operation. A CAMC eliminates this scramble, helps the leadership with peace of mind, and enables them to focus on other core tasks and bottom-line drivers such as technical innovations and aftersales service. 

Cranedge is an industry leader in the annual maintenance contract domain and is a pioneer in providing comprehensive AMC for EOT Cranes of any make. If you are looking for a service provider that meets your maintenance requirements and goals, contact our Cranedge experts today. 

Benefits of Crane One Time Health Checkup

At present, every organization wants its operation to run uninterrupted with zero hurdles and with maximum efficiency. In maintaining the same, material handling equipment play an important role in achieving the objective. Regular overhead crane inspections and health check-ups give an overview of the current condition of the equipment. This also helps us to raise the alarm about any part which shows additional wear and tear. Cranedge health assessment reports help you to identify the pain areas of your crane and thereby making it possible to do proactive maintenance. This helps keep the crane in running condition by taking necessary action, which further ensures trouble-free operation maximises uptime and increases operational efficiency. Crane health check-up report from our team of experts helps you to take timely actions against upcoming issues.

Benefits of Crane Health Check-up:-

1. Maximum Uptime:

An overhead crane working without regular inspections is a potential candidate for a sudden downtime. However, regular inspections enable you to identify and address the issues before they become a major threat. This allows for maximum uptime of your equipment and helps to run your business with higher productivity.

2. Trouble-Free Operations:

Shop floor accidents and injuries pose a significant challenge to productivity and equipment uptime. However, regular inspections help the management to evade these threats and ensure maximum uptime. From human resources perspective, this will be a step towards their safety and get them more engaged with the organization with enhanced productivity.

3. Smooth Plant Working:

When you regularly inspect your material handling equipment, good maintenance and efficient operations of the plant becomes a habit. Proper maintenance keeps the MHE in good and smooth operating conditions. Such regular activity enables you to tackle the wear and tear of your equipment and keep productivity and efficiency in check.

4. Maximum Plant Efficiency:

In a process-based system, overhead cranes act as one of the critical components that contribute towards organizational efficiency and productivity. Thus, regular maintenance of such equipment becomes inevitable. Proper inspections at regular intervals ensure perfect working conditions for the overhead cranes. Such inspections not only ensure the safety of the shop floor but also produce multi-fold benefits such as an increase in revenue and profits.

5. Machinery Performance Life:

The useful life of an overhead crane will diminish significantly with regular use and wear and tear. And the only way to counter this threat is by conducting regular health check-ups. Such inspections help you to evade unforeseen dangers and get the most out of your investment.

An effective and regular inspection is essential in ensuring optimum working conditions of the overhead crane and avoiding any looming hazard at the facility.

Safety Starts with our Crane AntiFall System

What are Falling Materials and Why are they a Cause of Worry? – A Case Study

Falling materials are a major concern at any workplace or plant site wherever overhead cranes are installed. Load slippage, mechanical failure, or operator incompetency can all result in serious injuries or fatalities. If loads are not properly secured, the load can slip and land on workers in the vicinity or cause major damage to property. Loads being lifted by overhead hoists tend to be fairly heavy and cause serious damage when they eventually crash to the floor.

One of our prestigious customers and a major Indian auto giant faced one such unfortunate incident wherein the load from a 25t DGEOT crane, slipped and fell from a height of 8 meters. Although there were no casualties, there was some serious damage done to the machinery and there was the loss of property. This incident shook many within the company and posed a real threat to safety at the workplace. The customer is one of the most reputed companies that gives the utmost importance to the safety of its employees, immediately decided to consult one of the best in the business. Cranedge India Pvt. Ltd. with a decade of experience in EOT crane services, was invited for a detailed discussion to understand the reason for the mishap and to come up with an optimal solution to avoid any future accidents.

Crane Specialists at Work!

Cranedge sent a team of crane specialists, who went about their job with an eye for detail. They thoroughly checked the crane, analyzed the site & the application and even interacted with the crane operator and the workers to detect the reason for the failure. Backed by a strong design team, Cranedge came up with a bespoke solution with minimal changes in the existing system. The customer was so impressed with the technical expertise and the approach of the Cranedge team that they decided to place the order for executing the solution on not just one but 10 of their critical cranes at the same time.

Since the cranes were more than a decade old, Cranedge team conducted a thorough check on the cranes to understand the condition of the crane. The crane data were further analyzed with the Design team in consultation with the sales and service team to understand the requirement of the customer and to device a system that was both cost-effective as well as ensured a safe working environment with minimal changes in the existing system.

Our Solution

Crane Anti-Fall system was designed as a safety measure to alert the operator and the workers during the time of emergency. In cases where the hoisting brake fails, an alarm would go off notifying the operator and the workforce about the emergency. At this stage, the system is capable of holding the load for a period of around 10 minutes even after the hoisting brake completely fails thereby allowing the operator sufficient time to park the load at a safe location without having to worry about the load falling down. Once the situation is taken care off, the crane can be maintained and made ready for use once again.

The MH slip ring motors were replaced with VFD suitable squirrel cage motors, New VFD control panels with other accessories were provided, cable trailing systems were replaced with more robust drag chain systems. This system was implemented one by one, on each crane and was made ready for operation in a week’s time.

Though the Anti-fall system proved to be a real boon to enhance the safety of the crane, performing regular maintenance can be one of the easiest ways to reduce the risk of falling materials. Maintenance should always be of paramount importance when it comes to heavy machinery. If a moving part on an overhead crane wears out or breaks the hoist, it can cause serious damage. Performing regular maintenance ensures trouble-free and smooth operation of the hoists and overhead cranes. Cranedge India Pvt. Ltd offers a wide range of crane services that are customized according to the requirement and application of the crane. To avoid human error, Cranedge has also strategically developed advanced equipment’s like RAMON (Rail Monitoring System) for precise inspection & correction of crane geometry & rail alignment and ROMON (Rope Monitoring System) for timely prediction of rope failure.

Annual Maintenance Contracts for Crane

cranes count among the most critical equipments for capital intensive industries like Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Steel, Power etc. It is therefore important to have a smooth and trouble-free operation of these cranes to ensure higher availability and uptime resulting in increased productivity and profitability.

A few compelling questions that bother all the above industries are:

1. How to prolong the useful life of a crane?
2. How to ensure optimum utilisation of the crane?
3. How to predict breakdowns and enhance safety at the workplace?
4. How to minimise the total cost of ownership?

The solution to all the above questions lies in ‘Annual Maintenance Contracts (AMC)’.

Now what exactly is Crane AMC and why are they essential?

In addition to regular health checks, your cranes require a structured preventive maintenance plan. This plan ensures that cranes provide long and reliable service while remaining in healthy condition. Under AMC, all the major parts and components of the crane are checked to ensure their integrity and ability to perform at all levels. AMC helps in the timely prediction of the health of the parts and components to avoid any undue circumstances leading to crane downtime and eventual production loss.

How does a Crane AMC help?

1. Regular maintenance of cranes under AMC helps to prolong the useful life of cranes and you can be assured that the cranes will continue to work with peak efficiency for years without frequent unexpected failure.
2. Most AMCs provide emergency services, thus in the event of an unexpected failure of the cranes, a crane specialist will always be around you, well equipped with essential spare parts thereby saving time and money which results in productivity for your business.
3. AMC helps you to reduce the cost of ownership.
4. A crane specialist handling your equipment is essential for ensuring higher availability, higher uptime, lower MTTR and lower MTBF.

Why Cranedge?

1. Cranedge Annual Maintenance Contracts have been developed based on our experience with over 10000 crane installations across the globe in almost every conceivable industry.
2. Our wide range of Crane AMCs is customized according to the requirements and application of the equipment.
3. Covering your cranes under a Cranedge AMC gives you timely inputs on the health of worn-out parts so that you are well prepared with timely replacement and prevent production downtime.
4. Cranedge AMC covers all types of cranes from an EOT Crane (an overhead crane), a Gantry crane, a Jib crane, forklift to a simple light duty workshop crane. We have a specialised team who possess in-depth knowledge of cranes to help you find the right solutions.
5. Cranedge also helps you to develop key performance indicators for your crane based on their operations and performance.
6. Cranedge has a huge inventory of spares for all types of cranes thus making repair work convenient and time-saving.

As Albert Einstein once said, “A clever man solves a problem, a wise person avoids it.” An AMC for cranes does exactly the same, avoids the problems for your business!