The expanding globalization of the global economy is forcing ports, docks and ports to take over ever-expanding volumes of goods. Therefore, mobile port appliances will have to operate successfully and reliably at all times. Tony Ingham from Sensor Technology Ltd explains how the painting speed of cranes, loaders and unloaders optimises their functionality and plans downtimes for maintenance to minimise operational requirements. . .
The import and export of dry bulk cargoes, from minerals to cereals, from fertilizers to cement, from wood chips to agricultural products, is an almost exclusively maritime operation. Therefore, it is mandatory to load and unload ships and barges, and in the fashionable world, this will have to be done quickly, successfully and safely.
Therefore, as the volume needs of the global industry increase, port operators will need to ensure that their loading and unloading equipment is in the best condition, available and able to adapt to new operational, advertising and security requirements.
The most productive way to use these types of devices is to constantly monitor them while they are in operation. This will allow the work to be totalized to optimize preventive maintenance planning and immediately detect the first symptoms of emerging problems, such as bearing seizure.
The paint performed is directly similar to the total load lifted, a parameter that crane and loader operators also measure for protection and commercial reasons.
Constant load tracking used to be very difficult, but Sensor Technology has developed the best solution. Called LoadSense, it was initially used with helicopters carrying objects suspended in shipping nets and has now been adapted for use in ground handling equipment.
The generation comes to the installation of a sensor in each crane or unloader. Once installed, it does not interfere at all with handling operations, but frequently sends real-time information via a wireless link to a computer, where it can be displayed and stored. , tabulated and analyzed to provide functionality data to operators and billing data to customers.
LoadSense is an intelligent load sensor that can be seamlessly incorporated into a cellular harbour crane. Designed and manufactured by Sensor Technology in Banbury, UK, it is fully automatic and does not interrupt overall operations. No special education is required; Instead, operators and managers can immediately have complete and easy-to-understand data.
The LoadSense sensor is based on the strain gauge generation shown and is calibrated as popular in the range of 1 to 50 tonnes, with other levels available upon request. It frequently monitors the load and transmits it wirelessly, over the unlimited 2. 4 GHz frequency band, to a receiver for the next step to the control computer. This makes it possible to demonstrate accurate load data, usually through a color touchscreen computer, running Windows XP. The demonstration presents the real-time measurement of the load, while the computer records and analyzes it.
LoadSense has become a favorite among port crane operators for a generation to improve safety, asset availability, productivity and profitability. For example, you may want to know how many curtains you have carried, or you may be handling two or more fabrics. that want to be accounted for individually. A common situation is when loads from multiple consumers are treated at the same time; Here, LoadSense provides operators with the data they need to bill each one properly.
LoadSense also improves protection and prevents dock handling devices from failing catastrophically. There are two reasons for those failures:
In conclusion, we can say that to be profitable, port operators will have to work long and hard with their dock handling devices and that the most productive way to ensure reliability and protection is to frequently monitor the loading and interpretation of the resulting data. Sensor Technology’s LoadSense makes this requirement absolutely automatic and foolproof.
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