While spreader and lifting beams are two different types of below-the-hook lifting devices, used to stabilize and support a load during an overhead lift, both keep lifting slings below at or near a ...

A properly maintained hoist, used as it should be by a trained and competent operator, is generally speaking a safe machine. Nevertheless its purpose is to lift a load to a height, which is an ...

A crane or hoist with a hook on the end seems a clear and simple solution. (Credit: Glenn van de Wiel on Unsplash) A crane or hoist with a hook on the end seems a clear and simple solution to most ...

The Panama Canal is one of the two most strategic artificial waterways critical to global maritime trade, the other being the Suez Canal. It is the shortest operative route connecting maritime trade ...

The life cycles of port assets are extended, and the likelihood of defects that influence normal port activity is reduced due to smart maintenance systems. (Credit ...

Thomas Weston, Alton Shaw and Alfred Box are among the founding fathers of the modern industrial lifting industry, and their enterprise eventually all came together in the US company Yale Lift-Tech.

The jacking system contains a dedicated proprietary control system that optimises the system’s load distribution, specifically for turbine and foundation installation. (Credit: Glennyman/Wikipedia) ...

An expert crane operator, with years of experience, can handle all this and move his complicated load without it swaying. (Credit: 652234/Pixabay) Hoist Magazine began writing about anti-sway systems ...

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An average-sized tunnel boring machine (TBM) might be roughly 6m in diameter and weigh 400 metric tons. Judged on weight alone, even the very largest of TBM components is well within the capabilities ...

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A processing unit coverts the output vector to an amount of voltage and current at a given frequency, and can direct the variable frequency drive to send a frequency to the motor at a frequency ...