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Customised hoists and cranes boost production
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Konecranes (UK) product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
May 19, 2008
Customised hoists and cranes fit into the restricted spaces and provide the optimum lifting automation at a French cemented-carbide tools and components plant.
Konecranes has supplied 25 customised hoists and cranes to Sandvik Hard Materials' Epinouze, France, factory to boost production efficiency.
The company produces a wide range of cemented-carbide tools and components for automotive, aerospace, paper and other industrial sectors.
Konecranes configured five of the lifting systems to fit into the restricted spaces available and provide the optimum lifting automation.
There is a runway-mounted 1-tonne version of the XM crane that is used for changing tools on production machinery.
The main machine shop has a low roof, so Sandvik designed a custom double-beam arrangement for suspending the hoist between the runways, to achieve the lifting heights needed.
So now one crane serves a much larger set of machines and so improved productivity.
In other applications, a Konecranes' SXN dual chain hoist lifts the tool, while a second hoist is fitted with a frequency inverter drive to provide precision rotation of the load.
Konecranes told manufacturingtalk that this arrangement aligned and fits the tool very rapidly and so speeds machine tooling changeovers between production batches.
Konecranes said it won the order because it was willing to customise products to optimise performance.At Sandvik Hard Materials, Frederic Boulay said: "On this project, Konecranes' staff acted as if they were an in-house engineering department, helping us to squeeze a lot of sophisticated lifting equipment into the restricted spaces available in our Epinouze plant".
He commented: "We've improved the efficiency of lifting in many areas, reducing downtime on key pieces of capital equipment in our production process.".
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