Overhead Handling of Materials in Industrial Environment

Material handling is one of the key phenomena in any industrial environment. The mechanical device to be adopted for such handling depends upon a number of factors such as weight of the materials, distance to be handled, frequency and repetitiveness of handling, economy of time and cost, safety and the process of manufacturing. An environment of high degrees of temperature and distancing away from such environment is another aspect that necessitates handling of materials through overhead cranes. There are a number of major industrial segments that depend upon the deployment of Overhead cranes. They are Paper Mills, Steel Plants, Sugar Mills, Cement Plants, Chemical Sector and Railways.

An overhead crane, also called a bridge crane operating over the working environment, runs horizontally over two parallel runways coupled to a traveling bridge. The lifting component, hoist travels along the bridge to lift materials. It covers varying span, depending upon the various processes involved in manufacturing. The basic objective of using overhead crane is to keep the hazardous elements such as heat, acidity, combustibility, distanced from the work force. For example, in a galvanizing unit, heavy structural materials are required to be dipped into a number of tanks for the performance of sequential processes such as acid tank for pickling, water tank for rinsing, chemical tank for fluxing and molten zinc tank for galvanizing. Similarly, in a steel plant, overhead crane does operations like feeding of raw materials to a furnace, storing for cooling, lifting and loading of finished coils onto trucks and trains.

There are a number of established and leading industrial units in India who manufacture and export overhead traveling cranes and material handling equipments. If you are running any of the process type industries, you may find your requirement from a wide range of products such as industrial cranes, double girder overhead traveling cranes, industrial cranes, automated cranes and special purpose lifting equipment. You can easily get the spare parts and critical components to keep your cranes free of long breakdown. Before deciding to buy any of the overhead material handling equipments, you need to verify if the manufacturer is certified for ISO 9001:2000, 14001:2004 an 18001:2007 so that you are automatically assured of the quality of the equipments that you are going to install.

Besides the equipment, you can find a number of services such as overhauling, erection, commissioning, installation, rail alignment, re-rating and revamping of EOT cranes, conversion of DC to AC Controls, automation of cranes, refurbishing of crane gearboxes. The manufacturer of EOT crane you select should be well-resourced with regard to Man-Material-Machinery-Money-Management. You should get your specific requirement fulfilled along with timely delivery and after sale services. If you are going in for a new engineering project, you may like to avail consultancy services with regard to designing, raw materials, specifications and dimensions of the machines that would suit to your project. You can avail services on turnkey basis covering every aspect of a project such as conceptualization, designing, fabrication, installation, commissioning and first trial run.