This summer IVC attended and presented to over 200 maintenance professionals at the AIST Crane Symposium. The most common problems of industries affected by overhead crane failures were the emergency egress when they break down, and the limited access for crane preventive maintenance and routine inspections. You see, whenever overhead cranes breakdown, they’re never where the operator can just get off, or maintenance can go up to work on them. Somehow, cranes always break down in the worst spot of…
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Beyond OSHA Inspections for Overhead Cranes With CBM
The goal of inspections and maintenance for overhead cranes according to OSHA should be focused on inspections for safety to avoid catastrophic failure. When the focus is on only meeting OSHA annual inspection requirements and not also upon improving the reliability of the equipment to perform its intended function, you are setting your operation up for unplanned downtime you can’t afford. “Overhead cranes are a single-source cause of downtime in many industries.” Allen Bailey OSHA Regulation 1910 groups several equipment…
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