Overhead Alliance’s New Video Showcases How Overhead Lifting Technologies Deliver ...
Depending on the types of vehicles currently used in a facility, deploying cranes, hoists and monorails can greatly reduce an operation’s environmental impact while simultaneously enhancing overall throughput and performance. A recently released video produced by MHI’s Overhead Alliance (which ...
Know Your Hoist Operation Guidelines To Ensure Worker, Facility Safety
Hoists are an integral part of overhead lifting, often serving as the link between the load and the overhead crane or monorail system. Therefore, their proper operation and maintenance is critical to ensuring the safety of workers using the overhead ...
Lift Any Load Safely And Securely With Below The Hook ...
One of the best and safest practices in overhead lifting is to match the load to the load handling device. To ensure that a load — regardless of its shape, weight, or fragility — is lifted, lowered, and positioned safely ...
Why Your Next Overhead Handling Equipment Purchase Should Be From ...
Considering an investment in overhead lifting and handling equipment? When evaluating potential solutions providers, be sure to find out if they are members of MHI’s Overhead Alliance. Comprised of the Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA), the Hoist Manufacturers Institute ...
Overhead And Gantry Inspections 101: Learn The Basics
To ensure both the safety and the optimal functionality of an overhead or gantry crane, it is critical to inspect a variety of components and operating functions at specific intervals. As recommended by the Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA) ...
Workstation Cranes: Allowing A Single Operator To Efficiently Handle A ...
Installing workstation cranes within individual assembly and manufacturing work cells helps operators lift, lower, handle, position, and move heavy objects both safely and efficiently. Capable of handling loads up to 4,000 pounds, these systems are designed to reduce the physical ...
Learn How Overhead Lifting Enhances Operational Safety In Overhead Alliance’s ...
In a recently released video, MHI’s Overhead Alliance (which includes the Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA), the Hoist Manufacturers Institute (HMI), and the Monorail Manufacturers Association (MMA)) shares a brief overview into the many ways cranes, hoists and monorails ...
CMAA Releases Updates To Overhead Crane Specifications 70 And 74
The Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA) has released the latest updates to two of its technical specifications: CMAA Specification 70 – Specifications for Top Running Bridge & Gantry Type Multiple Girder Electric Overhead Traveling Cranes CMAA Specification 74 – ...
Register Today For The Online Overhead Lifting Safety Conference In ...
Advance registration is now open for the third annual Overhead Lifting Safety Conference (www.overheadliftingsafety.org). Previously held concurrently to MHI’s ProMat and MODEX shows, the Conference will be held this year in a weekly webinar format this September — coinciding with ...
Updated Manuals And Best Practices Documents For Hoist Operation Released
To ensure the safety and productivity of workers using overhead hoist equipment, the members of the Hoist Manufacturers Institute (HMI) produce a series of technical papers detailing how to properly operate and maintain hand, lever or powered hoists. The group ...