Hoist Technologies Enhance Operational Safety
The hoisting equipment sector may be both stable and mature. However, that doesn’t negate the work of the Hoist Manufacturers Institute (HMI), nor does it imply that the sector is stagnant. Instead, the organization continues to advance the development of ...
Overhead Crane Safety Enhanced By Automated Tools
When automation first grew more widespread, the crane and overhead handling systems category was slow to adopt out of safety concerns. With time and more advances, however, that perspective has changed. Today, manufacturers are increasingly embracing automated tools for enhanced ...
Prevent Off-Center Picks With Detection Systems For Overhead Handling
Although nothing replaces training and experience when it comes to improving safety in overhead lifting, there are devices that can alert operators to unsafe conditions. Among these risky situations is an off-center pick, also known as a side pull. In ...
How Collision Avoidance Systems Make Overhead Lifting Safer
Crashing an overhead crane and hoist system into another overhead lifting device, facility structure, machinery, or people is something every operation wants to avoid. While operator training, experience, and awareness of surroundings certainly go a long way toward preventing a ...
Load Snag Detection Systems Enhance Operational Safety In Overhead Lifting ...
Operator training is always the most effective means to improve safety in an overhead lifting application. Training and experience help overhead crane and hoist operators avoid many of the most common safety challenges — including preventing load snags. That said, ...
Restricted Travel Areas Prevent Overhead Cranes, Hoists From Colliding With ...
Ideally, every overhead crane and hoist would have a wide-open, unimpeded travel path throughout an entire facility. In reality, however, that’s rarely the case. Most distribution and manufacturing operations have a number of fixed obstacles — including columns, racking, machinery, ...
Overhead Load Sway Control Technology Improves Safety, Productivity
When an overhead crane and hoist system transports a load, the laws of physics dictate that the suspended load will naturally sway when the travel motion starts or stops. Similar to a pendulum on a grandfather clock, the farther the ...
Webinar Explores Best Practices In The Safe Operation Of Below-The-Hook ...
The last of four sessions featured in the fourth annual Overhead Lifting Safety Webinar Series (www.mhi.org/overheadsafety), “Best Practices for Safe Operation of Below-the-Hook Lifting Equipment,” aired on November 18. During the hour-long presentation, Scott Salisbury, General Manager at Bradley Lifting ...
Discover The Latest Overhead Lifting Safety Innovations During Webinar
The third in a set of four sessions shared during the fourth annual Overhead Lifting Safety Webinar Series (www.mhi.org/overheadsafety), “Overhead Lifting Safety Innovations Panel Discussion,” aired on November 11. During the 45-minute presentation, four panelists discussed several new technologies available ...