In the beginning, the crane device was simply called a computer. Then it became known as a load-moment indicator (LMI) and in some cases the technology has been referred to as a rate capacity ...

Lifting work with crawler cranes can be very challenging – especially on floating structures with varying inclinations or when lifting very long loads. For ...

European Machinery Directive is law. To fulfil that law a range of standards is referred to - one of them, for mobile cranes, is EN 13000, first published in 2004. Since then an amendment, relating to ...

“Before a load is picked up, the operator enters certain data into the computer, such as information on the configuration he's using, the boom angle and the jib length,” he says. “When he makes a lift ...