SIMOCRANE Advanced Technology

SIMOCRANE Advanced Technology

Apart from the drive technology, technological supplementary functions and sensor‑based automation components are gaining in importance in the fulfillment of current market requirements. An important trend with cranes is the increasing degree of automation and simultaneous reduction in CO₂ values.
SIMOCRANE Advanced Technology comprises optional additional components for increasing productivity and enhancing safety for personnel and machines.

Perfectly tuned SIMOCRANE modules allow different depths of automation to be achieved as well as CO₂ emissions to be reduced.

Compared to a diesel generator supply, a supply with an energy storage system based on the SINAMICS DCP DC converter and battery is more energy efficient and reduces CO₂ emissions through the possibility of storing the braking energy from the drive system. The SIMOCRANE Energy Storage System Management (ESSM) software solution provides the functionalities for integrating such an energy storage system into the crane application.

In mobile cranes, diesel generators are used conventionally in constant speed mode for generating electrical power. With SIMOCRANE ECO Technology, diesel generators are operated at speeds dependent on the load. This results in reduced fuel consumption and, therefore, savings in operating costs and reduced emissions.

Each movement of a crane with cable guides results in the load swaying and therefore represents a risk to humans and property. Transport processes also take longer to complete. A sway control system can be used to make the transport processes more effective and safer.

SIMOCRANE offers a high‑performance sway control system with different operating modes that ensures a high degree of safety for persons, transport goods and equipment. Automatic sway control relieves the crane driver and also ensures faster and more accurate positioning of the load.

The high‑performance solution can be applied for different types of cranes, like STS, GSU in harbor and OHBC cranes in industry.

To meet the requirements in STS automation, a semi‑automatic mode of the sway control system is essential to avoid the risk of collisions and accidents and to move the load to the target position along the time‑optimized trajectory. To increase the degree of safety the sway control system can even consider the obstacles during manual operation and response correspondingly to avoid collision.
In the case of grab cranes the productivity can be increased by completely controlled sway for on‑the‑fly unloading.

Furthermore, SIMOCRANE even meets the challenge of mid‑performance market applications with its drive‑based solution SIMOCRANE Drive‑Based Sway Control. This software solution is embedded in the SINAMICS drive to decrease costs. Its main function is to damp sway in manual operation and in positioning, so that the crane driver can be relieved, the load can be exactly positioned, and the productivity can be increased.

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