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Overhead Crane Beams or overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in industrial environments.
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Overhead Crane Beams or overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in industrial environments. Overhead crane beams consists of parallel runways with a traveling bridge spanning the gap. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels along the bridge. If the bridge is rigidly supported on two or more legs running on a fixed rail at ground level.
Unlike mobile or construction cranes, overhead crane beams are typically used for either manufacturing or maintenance applications, where efficiency or downtime are critical factors.
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Overhead crane beams are commonly used in the refinement of steel and other metals such as copper and aluminium. At every step of the manufacturing process, until it leaves a factory as a finished product, metal is handled by an overhead crane.
Raw materials are poured into a furnace by crane, hot metal is then rolled to specific thickness and tempered or annealed, and then stored by the overhead crane beams for cooling, the finished coils are lifted and loaded onto trucks and trains by overhead crane, and the fabricator or stamper uses an overhead crane to handle the steel in his factory.
The automobile industry uses overhead crane beams to handle raw materials. Smaller workstation cranes, such as jib cranes or gantry cranes, handle lighter loads in a work area, such as CNC mill or saw.
Almost all paper mills use overhead crane beams for regular maintenance needing removal of heavy press rolls and other equipment. The overhead crane beams are used in the initial construction of paper machines because they make it easier to install the heavy cast iron paper drying drums and other massive equipment, some weighing as much as 70 tons.
In many instances the cost of the overhead crane beams can be largely offset with savings from not renting mobile cranes in the construction of a facility that uses a lot of heavy process equipment.
