Ways to Save Overhead Cranes and Gantry Cranes Maintenance Costs

Overhead cranes and gantry cranes are the special types of machinery and equipment that need to be repaired or maintained from time to time to ensure their performance is at a normal level. You can save a lot of maintenance expense by the three ways below.

1. Determine the maintenance cycle of the overhead cranes and gantry cranes. The maintenance cycle of equipment can be long or short. However, some units or individuals do not fully believe in the deion of the overhead cranes and gantry cranes factory data, etc., and they rush to maintain the new equipment soon after it comes back, completely ignoring the specific use of the equipment. To be precise, the working conditions used by the mechanism of each part of the overhead cranes and gantry cranes and the different stroke lengths used can be as the basis for judging its maintenance cycle.

2. The problem of oil use. Most of the overhead cranes and gantry cranes use hydraulic oil, lubricating oil, fuel oil and other oil, and the use of overhead cranes and gantry cranes inevitably requires a lot of costs in oil. However, if the fuel consumption of the overhead crane and gantry crane is in consideration, and the factors that increase the fuel consumption of the crane are noticed and avoided as much as possible, the purpose of the maintenance costs saving will achieve in the use of oil.

3. Maintenance problems. It is easy to have a repair operation for the collapsed mechanism every once in a while. However, when using an overhead crane or a gantry crane, many people usually wait until some component of the equipment collapse before repairing it. As a result, the difficulty of repair the overhead crane or gantry crane has increased undoubtedly, and the maintenance costs also increase. Therefore, overhead crane and gantry crane users must pay attention to improving, adjusting and repairing each small problem in time to prolong the "collapse" period and "repair" period of the equipment mechanism.

Critical maintenance work for overhead cranes and gantry cranes

With the development of social development and economic construction, double-girder overhead cranes and double-girder gantry cranes occur more often in people's sight. As everyone knows, the double-girder overhead crane and double-girder gantry crane belong to the raw material loading and unloading machinery and equipment. It is an intermittent fitness exercise - the corresponding structure of the operation such as loading, transporting, and unloading in a working cycle system. The application department of the double-girder hoisting machinery should always maintain the testing equipment for the double-girder hoisting machinery used. Any abnormal phenomenon should be detected in time and properly handled to ensure the safe operation of the double-girder hoisting machinery.

Daily inspection of overhead cranes and gantry cranes

A new routine maintenance project can be undertaken by the driver. The specific contents are daily cleaning, moisturizing parts of the transmission system, adjustment, and tightening work. According to the sensitivity of the operation detection fuse, monitor whether there is a higher loud noise during operation.

Weekly inspection of overhead cranes and gantry cranes

Equipment maintenance is carried out by workers and drivers together. In addition to the new daily inspection items, the specific contents are appearance inspection, an inspection of lifting hooks, pick-and-place equipment, galvanized steel wire ropes, and other applications. Reliability of the braking system, the flexibility of the clutch, and performance of the emergency alarm equipment, according to the operation, observe whether the transmission system components have abnormal sounds and over-temperature conditions.

Monthly inspection of overhead cranes and gantry cranes

It is important to carry out pattern inspection for these components:  the power device, lifting mechanism, rotating mechanism, operation mechanism, and hydraulic transmission system of the hoisting machinery, replacing damaged, deformed, cracked, and corroded parts, and inspection of the automatic control system of electrical equipment. Explosion-proof switchgear, control panels, overvoltage protection, and safety guards are not. Observe the subjective inspection of the structure, support, and transmission system of the crane under the condition, grasp the technical situation of the crane straw and check the common fault source of the abnormal phenomenon.

Annual review of overhead cranes and gantry cranes

Carry out performance parameter inspection and performance experiments on lifting machinery according to test equipment. Check out the damage to lifting machinery, fitness and movement components of various work organizations, welding of metal components, inspection and flaw detection, distribution and maintenance, renovation, and upgrade plan.

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