Radio control for cranes

Today, many companies whose activities are related to lifting equipment increasingly use radio control. Modern manufacturers offer a wide range of related systems, but all of them perform almost the same operations, as well as give a lot of advantages in operation.

Advantages of radio control

The use of radio control for lifting equipment allows you to gain the following two important benefits: modernization of the production process and its maximum safety for people. In addition, the performance of such works becomes available to all staff, not just to the crane operator.

Using radio control, it is possible to resolve a number of other production issues:

• optimize lifting and transport operations by increasing the maneuverability of cranes;
• make cargo-handling works more accurate and quicker than in case of cabin control;
• ensure synchronism during the transportation of one cargo with two cranes and using a single control panel;
• achieve cost savings by minimizing the number of "useless" equipment travels.

To activate radio control for such machines as bridge and overhead cranes or others, it is not necessary to change the configuration of an electric drive or operating parameters for this type of crane equipment.

How radio control works

The radio control process for cranes is carried out using a special push-button panel or its version with a controller. The most common type includes push-button panels with a different set of buttons: control, signal, etc. Any control panel is always equipped with an emergency button.

The use of control panels ensures the convenient and safe radio control of overhead cranes and other types of lifting equipment, as well as the remote performance of the following operations:

• power on/off and emergency power off;
• start and reverse individual crane mechanisms (cargo winches, lifting electromagnets, crane trolleys, bridges, etc.);
• enable/disable auxiliary functions (acoustical signal, site lighting).

An additional set of functions depends on the capabilities of lifting equipment itself.

Remote control equipment

Traditionally, crane radio control systems consist of the following components:

• a remote control panel;
• a command receiver;
• a device designed to harmonize the existing control configuration with the radio control system (control unit).

In addition, there are other models with different characteristics that successfully perform the above functions.

You can buy radio control systems from our enterprise in Perm at affordable prices. We offer our partners only tried and tested products from leading manufacturers, which ensures the improvement of economic performance of all lifting equipment.