Customer Success Story

Dynamic Conditions for Container Cranes under Control

 
Cost-effective instead of overpriced
At Contargo‘s 26 trimodal terminals, containers are loaded from A to B. The cranes in the terminals almost never stand still and have to operate reliably and safely at all times. The transportation of empty and full containers is carried out under very dynamic and different operating conditions. These pose major challenges for the measuring system, because there are only a few moments in which the measurements can be taken.

For this special application, Schaeffler offers the wireless and cost-effective OPTIME Condition Monitoring (CM) solution with the additional function “High Dynamic Mode“ (HDM). This allows measurements to be taken on machines where the time window for a valid measurement is very short (less than 10 seconds). Faber Industrietechnik, Schaeffler‘s certified service partner, recommended precisely this solution to Contargo for cranes in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.
 

Result: Shortly after the solution was deployed, imminent bearing damage on an engine was detected at an early stage, preventing an unplanned downtime and expensive consequential damage.