Smart features for metals industry

Semi-Automation with Smart Features

When it comes to choosing the right level of automation, it’s important to understand the nature of what you are machining as well as your specific requirements and capabilities. While fully automated systems can provide a cost-effective option, some applications may be more suited to semi-automation to meet production goals.
Semi-automation, currently more common in steel mills, involves an operator picking the load and then pressing a button to instruct the crane to deliver it to a pre-determined destination. Our cranes already include many features to help maximize safety and productivity. Movements and cycles are automatically controlled, minimizing human error. Konecranes Smart Features help improve safety, cycle times and load positioning, delivering major benefits when performing repetitive actions and are particularly useful on automated cranes.

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  • | Semi-Automation with a Charging Crane

     

    In complicated processes such as charging, a semi-automated crane can make movements more quickly and smoothly. All the operator has to do is push a button for the crane to access the chosen bin. With the bucket perfectly centered over the bin, the crane lowers and grabs material. Then the operator presses a button programmed for the right furnace, and the crane follows the defined path to its destination. This is particularly good for new operators.

Load control

Load Control Features are designed to improve the crane operator's safety and productivity by making the crane move more smoothly and easily.

Positioning & area control

Positioning and Area Control Features help the crane operator position the load more efficiently and accurately, as well as adapt the crane’s working area to the physical layout of your production line.

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