KBK Crane with a 2T Electric Chain Hoist Sold to Australia

2024-09-20 17:50:40

Project overview

Project information	Contents
Customer Location	Australia - Victoria
Customer Industry	Manufacture of heavy machinery components (servicing mining, agricultural and construction machinery)
Purchase of equipment	KBK freestanding crane + 2-ton electric chain hoist
Application Scenarios	Machining center loading and unloading, welding station parts transfer, heavy components lifting in assembly area

Customer Background

The customer is a local heavy machinery parts manufacturer in Australia, which mainly produces structural parts for extractive machinery, chassis parts for large agricultural machinery and parts for construction machinery. In recent years, with the upgrading of agricultural mechanization in Australia, customer orders have continued to grow. The customer had extended the original production area and needed to purchase a suitable lifting solution for the transportation of heavy components in the extended area.

Lifting Requirements and Field Challenges

"We needed a lifting system that was not dependent on the structure of the plant and could follow the production line. It has to cover multiple intensive work stations and be simple and safe to operate." --Customer Production Manager

Customers require frequent lifting of workpieces weighing from 200 kg to 2 tons during production, including:

➢Large castings/forgings on a machining center
➢Semi-finished structural parts between welding stations
➢Assembly area reducers, hydraulic cylinders and other assembly parts

The site environment and operational pain points are as follows:

Category of challenges	Specific description
Plant Restrictions	The limited load-bearing capacity of the roof did not allow for the addition of new conventional bridge crane tracks; nor were there any reserved bull legs.
Compact space	The layout of the equipment was dense and customers were using forklifts temporarily in the expansion area, often blocking access.
Insufficient flexibility	The original several cantilever cranes had a small coverage area, and the workpieces needed to be transferred several times; the stationary traveling crane could not cover all the work points.
Security and efficiency	The customer used forklift trucks with slings to load and unload large workpieces in the expansion area, which resulted in large workpiece shaking, slow alignment, sometimes causing slight bumping of the workpieces, and long loading and unloading times.
Future Expansion	The customer plans to adjust the layout of the production line in 6 months, and the equipment must be able to be reassembled, moved and reorganized.

Why Choose KBK Freestanding Crane + 2T Chain Hoist?

After site survey and demand analysis, we recommended KBK rail + rigid column freestanding crane with 2 tons electric chain hoist for our customer. The core logic of the program is as follows:

Contrast	Conventional Truck / Forklift Solution	KBK freestanding + chain hoist program
Requirements for the plant	Roof reinforcement, pre-built rails required	Fully self-supporting, requires only a concrete floor foundation
Coverage	Fixed straight lines or rectangular areas	Can be freely arranged according to the workstationRectangular, L-shaped, ring-shaped track
Handling accuracy	High traveling inertia, difficulty in micromotion	Good chain hoist chain flexibility + frequency control for precise positioning
Ease of Operation	Requires full-time overhead crane operator or ground remote control	Worker hand push walk + remote control, one person can complete the loading and unloading
Production Line Adaptability	Difficult and costly to retrofit	Modular structure, detachable, removable and expandable

Yuantai KBK Overhead Crane

kbk-crane KBK Freestanding Workstation Crane

Lifting Capacity	50-3000kg
Crane Span	1-10 m
Lifting Height	1-10 m
Working Class	A3, A4
Control Mode	Pendant Control, Remote control
Hoist	Wire Rope Hoist, chain hoist