Tower crane maintenance
There are a number of equipment maintenance management techniques that can be employed, including “Breakdown Maintenance” where maintenance is only carried out after faults or failures have occurred, and “Planned Preventive Maintenance” which involves routine inspection replacing parts and consumables or making necessary adjustments at preset intervals so that risks do not occur as a […]
Approaches to Maintenance of tower crane
Types of Maintenance Management There are three main types of maintenance management that may be applied to the maintenance of machines, including tower cranes: breakdown maintenance, preventive maintenance, and predictive maintenance. Not all of these are appropriate for the effective maintenance of tower cranes, as explained below. Breakdown Maintenance Breakdown or “run-to-failure” maintenance management has […]
How do tower cranes work?
A tower crane will perform hundreds of lifts over the course of a construction project, moving heavy materials like steel and concrete into place for construction workers assembling a building. Each lift involves the same basic moves: The rope is lowered down along with the hook so that the load can be attached.