Abstract
The installation of an overhead electric crane is often left in the hands of specialist manufacturers. Plant engineers, however, need to ascertain service and performance requirements when considering an installation, and they often rebuild or modify existing cranes in order to reduce production and maintenance costs by improving the reliability of the crane service.
The paper considers some of the factors affecting the installation of suitable cranes for particular duties, and deals briefly with some of the important features of design. A few service troubles are dealt with and some instances are quoted from the experience of a steelworks maintenance department with reference to the subject of improvements and maintenance costs.
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