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Automotive Industry

Automotive Industry

Automotive Industry

Product catalog summary
Overview
Konecranes is a leading provider of lifting solutions tailored for the automotive industry. Their offerings include a wide range of cranes, lift trucks, and workstation lifting systems designed to enhance efficiency, safety, and reliability in automotive manufacturing processes.
Key Offerings
  • Jib Cranes: Feature adjustable control bearings for precise alignment and reduced uncontrolled movements.
  • Lift Trucks: Advanced low-emission models capable of handling heavy loads with precision and reduced environmental impact.
  • EOT Cranes: Equipped with Smart Solutions like sway control and positioning for improved safety and efficiency.
  • Manipulators: Customizable for specific assembly line needs, enhancing flexibility and adaptability.
  • Workstation Cranes: Modular design with high structural stiffness and low rolling resistance for tailored solutions.
Service and Maintenance
Konecranes offers comprehensive service levels, from basic maintenance to complete outsourcing, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance. Their TRUCONNECT® Remote Services provide real-time monitoring and reporting to enhance safety and maintenance planning.
Case Study: Volvo Umeå, Sweden
Volvo Trucks Corporation increased production capacity with Konecranes' semi-auto cranes, which improved safety and reduced cycle times. The collaboration resulted in a custom lifting device for efficient die handling, showcasing Konecranes' expertise in crane technology.
Conclusion
Konecranes provides innovative and reliable lifting solutions for the automotive industry, backed by extensive service and support to ensure continuous operation and efficiency.
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Catalog excerpts

Automotive Industry-1

INDUSTRIAL CRANES NUCLEAR CRANES PORT CRANES HEAVY-DUTY LIFT TRUCKS MACHINE TOOL SERVICE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY Lifting Businesses™ Automotive Industry THE RIGHT LIFTING SOLUTION

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Automotive Industry-2

Konecranes Automotive Industry Konecranes for Automotive Industry WIDE VARIETY OF LIFTING EQUIPMENT The automotive industry uses many different processes from stamping, pressing and manufacturing car parts, to assembly. Customers in this demanding industry have a common need for efficient, safe and reliable lifting solutions that fit the processes they serve. Expertise and complete solution portfolio equals the right solution Konecranes has many decades of experience in the lifting business and many satisfied automotive customers. We offer a unique understanding of how lifting can meet your process...

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Automotive Industry-3

EOT cranes CXT cranes can be equipped with Smart Solutions, for example positioning and sway control, and many other intelligent crane functions. Flexible solutions with steady benefits Lift trucks Advanced low-emission fork lift trucks and reach stackers handle steel plates, coils and stamping tools as part of the production process. Goods in containers, swap bodies and trailers can also be handled. Manipulators Manipulators are based on workstation cranes consisting of a vertical lifting device combined with a customized gripping unit. Their modular system design ensures extreme flexibility...

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Automotive Industry-4

Konecranes Automotive Industry Volvo Umeå, Sweden MEETING YOUR PROCESS NEEDS Shorter cycle times and a new kind of safety for stamping plant Konecranes solutions enable safe operation manners and ease the everyday life. Sway controlling makes manual operations easier and semi-auto functions more secure; no load sway caused by the crane. The crane cycle times are cut smaller by using PLC controlling, correct sensoring, helpful semi-auto functions, radio controlling via Profibus and safety increasing sway control system. Proven solutions Konecranes solutions are based on proven, wellengineered...

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Automotive Industry-5

STAMPING PLANT CRANE VOLVO SHORTENED CYCLE TIMES AND IMPROVED SAFETY A quest for production increase VOLVO TRUCKS CORPORATION in northern Sweden, Umeå planned to increase its production capacity and invested in a completely new stamping plant. Besides increasing its production, by having shorter crane cycle times for changing the dies in the stamping machine, Volvo needed to secure a safe working environment. As in many places, die change had previously been done by using chains to lift the dies in combination with the crane, which had meant slow cycle times and which may involve the risk of...

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Automotive Industry-6

Konecranes Automotive Industry MATERIAL HANDLING FOR A WIDE RANGE OF NEEDS FOR EFFICIENCY IN THE YARD Konecranes has supplied lift trucks for over 50 years to a wide range of industries including the automotive industry where our fork lift trucks and reach stackers provide heavy, reliable handling of steel, tools and machinery in the yard. Move heavy goods cost-effectively Our fork lift trucks lift from 10 to 60 tons and can be supplied with special lifting devices for your processes. Our reach stackers lift from 10 to 80 tons and can also be supplied with special lifting devices. All of our...

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Automotive Industry-7

KONECRANES SERVICE – ON A LEVEL SUITED TO YOU Our five service levels define the relationship and cooperation with you and they all aim at raising total life cycle value. From first CONTACT, to our professional evaluation of the CONDITION of your equipment, to preventive maintenance and consultation services for optimal CARE, Konecranes will tailor a program to lift your business. When a mutual COMMITMENT to performance-based maintenance or COMPLETE material handling outsourcing is required, Konecranes has the experience and resources to help you meet your business objectives. Care A selection...

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Automotive Industry-8

Port Cranes Heavy-duty Service Lift Trucks Machine Tool Service Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™ offering lifting equipment and services that improve productivity in a wide variety of industries. The company is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V). With over 11,500 employees at more than 600 locations in almost 50 countries we have the resources, technology and determination to deliver on the promise of Lifting Businesses™. © 2012 Konecranes. All rights reserved. ‘Konecranes’, ‘Lifting Businesses’ and are registered trademarks of Konecranes. Industrial Nuclear...

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All Konecranes catalogs and technical brochures

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  4. A-STRAD

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