New Smarton Process Crane
Konecranes' Smarton? Crane now comes with the revolutionary Truview? remote monitoring services, a safer and maintenance friendly feature.
Condition monitoring, remote moni?toring 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 up the calculation of the service life of critical components.
The new Smarton process crane pro?vides 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 wo?rds when the Smarton crane was desi?gned. Special attention has been paid to en?abling 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 imp?ortant 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.
Sophisticated lifetime calculation for?mulas have been defined for the most impo?rtant 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 pe?riods with the cranes actual usage moni?toring data, it is possible to analyse the co?n?dition of the crane, and to make re?c?o?m?mendations on the timing of the nec?essary maintenance and inspection measures.
Comparison of the real usage and condition monitoring values with the theo?retical design parameters enables optimal planning of maintenance, general over?haul, and replacement intervals for the crane's most critical components, such as the wire rope or the hoist brake. The ulti?mate goal is to fix the crane before it breaks and thus minimise downtime in the custo?mer's process.
Another important issue is to reduce unnecessary maintenance and through that, cut down maintenance cost.One of the new standard features of the Smarton is that the condition and usage monitoring data recorded by the crane is automatically transmitted to the Global Technical Support (GTS) Team via a remote connection. The condition monitoring data can also be stored on a USB flash memory drive and sent to the GTS Team by email, if necessary.
The data is analysed by comparing it to the cranes design parameters and can generate reports for the customer at required intervals. The reports give infor?mation on how the crane has been used, whether it is working properly, and whether it is correctly dimensioned. On the basis of these remote monitoring reports and our maintenance recommendations, the customers can improve the total life span management of their cranes. The reports can be delivered to customers via our password protected customer portal and consist if information regarding safety issues, carne usage and projected component lifetime forecasts. With the help of these reports customers are able to see the remaining design working period of their crane components enabling them to make fact based decisions on the crane's future maintenance needs.
The automatic wizard functions, which assist the user in the crane's start-up process, are new and user friendly features incorporated in Smarton's graphical user interface. With these smart wizards, the setting up of start-up values on the service panel can be performed by the service man, without having to resort to the help of a programmable logic control (PLC) specialist. In case of a failure in crane's PLC after start-up, no data is lost, as all settings are stored in the service panel. Once a new PLC has been installed, the original values can be retrieved with the back- up and restore functions. Another useful new standard feature in Smarton is the possibility to also operate the crane via the service panel, should the normally used two radio transmitters fail.
Condition monitoring, remote moni?toring 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 up the calculation of the service life of critical components.
The new Smarton process crane pro?vides 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 wo?rds when the Smarton crane was desi?gned. Special attention has been paid to en?abling 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 imp?ortant 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.
Sophisticated lifetime calculation for?mulas have been defined for the most impo?rtant 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 pe?riods with the cranes actual usage moni?toring data, it is possible to analyse the co?n?dition of the crane, and to make re?c?o?m?mendations on the timing of the nec?essary maintenance and inspection measures.
Comparison of the real usage and condition monitoring values with the theo?retical design parameters enables optimal planning of maintenance, general over?haul, and replacement intervals for the crane's most critical components, such as the wire rope or the hoist brake. The ulti?mate goal is to fix the crane before it breaks and thus minimise downtime in the custo?mer's process.
Another important issue is to reduce unnecessary maintenance and through that, cut down maintenance cost.One of the new standard features of the Smarton is that the condition and usage monitoring data recorded by the crane is automatically transmitted to the Global Technical Support (GTS) Team via a remote connection. The condition monitoring data can also be stored on a USB flash memory drive and sent to the GTS Team by email, if necessary.
The data is analysed by comparing it to the cranes design parameters and can generate reports for the customer at required intervals. The reports give infor?mation on how the crane has been used, whether it is working properly, and whether it is correctly dimensioned. On the basis of these remote monitoring reports and our maintenance recommendations, the customers can improve the total life span management of their cranes. The reports can be delivered to customers via our password protected customer portal and consist if information regarding safety issues, carne usage and projected component lifetime forecasts. With the help of these reports customers are able to see the remaining design working period of their crane components enabling them to make fact based decisions on the crane's future maintenance needs.
The automatic wizard functions, which assist the user in the crane's start-up process, are new and user friendly features incorporated in Smarton's graphical user interface. With these smart wizards, the setting up of start-up values on the service panel can be performed by the service man, without having to resort to the help of a programmable logic control (PLC) specialist. In case of a failure in crane's PLC after start-up, no data is lost, as all settings are stored in the service panel. Once a new PLC has been installed, the original values can be retrieved with the back- up and restore functions. Another useful new standard feature in Smarton is the possibility to also operate the crane via the service panel, should the normally used two radio transmitters fail.
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