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Automatic cranes for Industry 4.0

Accelerate processes. Reduce staff workload. Ensure quality. Increase efficiency.

Whether semi or fully automatic - ALTMANN has been manufacturing automatic cranes in top quality for more than 25 years.

Common applications for an automatic crane:

  • Target approaches or bypassing of defined interference contours
  • Interaction with neighbouring customer plants and process control systems
  • Storage, transfer and retrieval of bulk material and general cargo

References - selected examples for automatic cranes:


Fully automatic double girder overhead crane for wood stack transport

Operating environment: wood processing industry

Features:

Lifting capacity: 12.500 kg
Span: 29,400 mm
Long travel speed: 120 m/min
Positioning accuracy: +/- 1 mm/min
Use: 24/7 - 360 days/year

- Safe picking up of the different chipboard stacks
- Reliable 24-hour operation
- Highest precision when stacking
- Flexible adaptation to changed stack towers
- Integrated warehouse management system


Fully automatic double girder overhead crane (chip crane)

Operating environment: Wood processing industry

Features:

Lifting capacity: 15.000 kg + gripper
Span: 28,500 mm
Long travel speed: 120 m/min
Positioning accuracy: +/- 1 mm/min
Capacity: 280 m³/h
Use: 24/7 - 360 days/year

- Gripper volume: 14 m³
- Control with self-releasing fire-fighting system
- Reeling energy chains synchronised with the hoist
- 4 axis-synchronised rope drums


Fully automatic double rail overhead trolley (shuttle) for wood stack transport

Operating environment: wood processing industry

Features:

Lifting capacity: 12.000 kg
Span: 6,600 mm
Long travel speed: 120 m/min
Positioning accuracy: +/- 1 mm/min
Use: 24/7 - 360 days/year

- Internal transport of board bundles between the individual production sites
- Multi-part fall protection system for securing the goods to be transported
- Permanent communication with the higher-level process control system


Fully automatic double girder overhead crane

Operating environment: aerated concrete industry

Features:

Lifting capacity: 12.000 kg + fixed load mast
Span: 14,000 mm
Long travel speed: 125 m/min
Positioning accuracy: +/- 2 mm/min
Use: 24/7 - 360 days/year
Environmental conditions: up to 60°C, heavy contaminations


Fully automatic double girder overhead crane

Operating environment: chemical industry

Features:

Lifting capacity: 6,300 kg + gripper
Span: 12,600 mm
Long travel speed: 40 m/min
Positioning accuracy: +/- 15 mm/min
Use: 24/7 - 360 days/year
Environmental conditions: all year round outdoors


Fully automatic double girder overhead crane with double rail suspension trolley

Operating environment: food industry

Features:

Material: completely made of stainless steel 1.4571
Lifting capacity: 2,500 kg + fixed load mast + gripper
Span: 15,000 mm
Long travel speed: 45 m/min
Positioning accuracy: +/- 2 mm/min
Use: 24/7 - 360 days/year
Environmental conditions: 50°C, very high air humidity with cleaning agents