Cab Operated, Dockside Gantry Bucket Crane with Boom Hoist

Problem
A large sugar company was using a very old crane with outdated wound rotor motor controls to unload sugar cane from ships/barges and deposit it onto a conveyor system feeding the factory. A significant amount of slack cable existed during the hold, close and racking process, which resulted in weekly maintenance of the cables.   Solution A crane controls upgrade to adjustable frequency drive technology with squirrel cage, inverter duty motors.   Magnetek’s hoist synchronization and bucket software helped reduce the slack cable present during the hold and close operation, which reduced the maintenance required on the system. Magnetek Products IMPULSE® VG+ Series 2 Vector Drives on the hold and close motions   IMPULSE® G+ Series 2 Adjustable Frequency Drives on the rack, gantry and boom hoist motions   Hoist Synchronization Software   Bucket Software		Gantry Crane Used to Unload Sugar Cane From Ships Gantry Crane Used to Unload Sugar Cane From Ships
Other Features
A Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) to control the operation of the crane and provide the ability to transmit crane status and drives data from onboard the crane to an off-board PLC.