General description
This popular 2 or 4 day crane maintenance training course is a must for your Maintenance Department’s Mechanical staff and provides standardized criteria to evaluate and correct structural, drive machinery and hoist problems on overhead cranes. Participants also learn how to setup comprehensive preventive maintenance programs. Students will work in our hands-on lab on actual crane and hoist components. A plant tour of a crane gearing and parts manufacturing plant is included in the #811 class.
Why should I attend?
Crane maintenance personnel, mechanics, millwrights, inspectors, maintenance supervisors, foremen, facilities engineers, or anyone else connected with your maintenance or safety program.
Course outline
- Introduction, Safety, Crane Terminology and Service Classes
- Crane Bridge Tracking
- Runways and Wheels
- Crane Structural
- Brakes – Load, Holding, Hydraulic and Disc
- Bridge and Trolley Drive Machinery
- Hoist Machinery – Gearing and Couplings
- Preventative Maintenance
- Appendix – Various Shoe Brakes
Course objectives
- Learn to isolate causes of abnormal tracking
- Determine causes of abnormal component wear
- Learn component replacement criteria
- Learn replacement and adjustment procedures
- Determine needed preventive maintenance items and intervals