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LIFT SMART, EVERY LIFT

LIFT SMART, EVERY LIFT

LIFT SMART, EVERY LIFT

Product catalog summary
Overview: The document outlines the Smart Features offered by Konecranes for various types of cranes, including industrial, nuclear, and port cranes, as well as heavy-duty lift trucks. These features are designed to enhance safety, productivity, and efficiency in material handling operations.
Key Features:
  • Sway Control: Limits load swing to allow faster handling and precise positioning, reducing the risk of damage.
  • Snag Prevention: Stops crane movement if the hook or load gets caught, preventing hazardous situations.
  • Assisted Load Turning: Simplifies load turning by keeping ropes straight, reducing risk and improving cycle times.
  • Adaptive and Extended Speed Range (ASR & ESR): Optimizes crane speed for efficiency, allowing faster movement of empty hooks.
  • Follow Me: Enables faster operations by allowing the crane to be guided manually above the load.
  • Hoisting Synchronization: Ensures synchronized movement of multiple hoists for accuracy.
  • Microspeed and Inching: Provides precise load handling and positioning.
  • Hook Centering: Automatically positions the crane over the load to reduce wear and improve operation.
  • Load Floating: Keeps the load in position after hoisting stops, reducing brake wear.
  • Protected Areas and Working Limits: Defines zones where the crane cannot enter, preventing collisions.
  • Shock Load Prevention: Smoothens load pick-up to prevent shocks and extend crane lifespan.
  • Slack Rope Prevention: Stops lowering movement when the load reaches its final position to avoid slack.
  • Target and End Positioning: Automates load positioning to predefined targets, reducing manual operation.
Applications: Smart Features are applicable in various industries such as automotive, steel, manufacturing, power, and pulp & paper, providing specific benefits like improved safety and efficiency.
Conclusion: Konecranes' Smart Features offer significant improvements in crane operations by enhancing safety, reducing cycle times, and increasing the lifespan of equipment. These features can be installed on new cranes or retrofitted to existing ones, tailored to specific industrial needs.
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INDUSTRIAL CRANES NUCLEAR CRANES PORT CRANES HEAVY-DUTY LIFT TRUCKS SERVICE MACHINE TOOL SERVICE KONEGRANES*Lifting Businesses" SMART FEATURES

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An intelligent crane ■ safer operations and faster work cycle.

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Smart Features LIFT SAFETY AND PRODUCTIVITY We have put decades of experience in technology and industry into our Smart Features, which increase safety and productivity of your business. Our cranes and software based Smart Features are designed to improve safety and reduce load cycle times by giving you total control over material handling in your production process. You can buy Smart Features already installed on new cranes, and you can also add them to your existing cranes. Choose the ones you want, or ask us to recommend a feature package that fits your specific production process. We invite...

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Protects infrastructure from collisions and possible damage. INTELLIGENT LIFTING USING SMART FEATURES Konecranes Smart Features are available for electric overhead traveling cranes and bring concrete benefits to your lifting processes. We at Konecranes, help you to choose which features are compatible with your lifting equipment. Here, we explain how you can benefit from each Smart Feature. To see features in action, scan the QR code on the back cover. SWAY CONTROL limits load swing by controlling the bridge and trolley acceleration and deceleration. Sway Control allows faster load handling and...

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ADAPTIVE SPEED RANGE (ASR) and EXTENDED SPEED RANGE (ESR) give you the opportunity to optimize speed of your crane. An empty hook can be moved at over double the speed of a loaded hook, allowing the operator to choose the most efficient way to control the hoist. Variable hoisting speeds provide accuracy during slow speed operation and shorter load cycle times during the faster operation. ASSISTED LOAD TURNING helps turn the load by keeping the ropes straight and eliminating side pull. This function makes one of the most challenging crane operation more simple and less risky. The benefits of this...

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Smart Features Developed to make crane operator’s daily work easier and efficient. HOOK CENTERING is designed to eliminate side pull during lifting by positioning the bridge and trolley automatically directly over the load. This feature means less wear and tear on your crane's components, faster load cycle times and ease of operation. LOAD FLOATING keeps the load in position after the hoisting movement stops, so the brake is applied less frequently and it wears less than normally. Load Floating allows a faster and smoother restart of the hoisting movement and better control of the load. FOLLOW...

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Smart Features SHOCK LOAD PREVENTION allows smooth load pick-up. The hoist drive monitors the load. If the load is picked up abruptly, the hoisting speed is automatically reduced until the load is lifted. This feature is designed to prevent shocks to the load and to the crane, extending the lifetime of the crane's steel structure and mechanical parts. TARGET POSITIONING and END POSITIONING reduce the need for operator's manual crane operation. With only a single button, target positioning brings the load to a predefined target position. End positioning brings the load to the center of a final...

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NUCLEAR CRANES 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 Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V). With approximately 12,000 employees at 600 locations in nearly 50 countries we have the resources, technology and determination to deliver on the promise of Lifting Businesses™. © 2015 Konecranes Plc. All rights reserved. ‘Konecranes’, ‘Lifting Businesses’ and trademarks of Konecranes Plc. are either...

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