INDUSTRIAL CLUTCH PARTS work with LIBERTY STEEL to provide INVERTER-CONTROLLED BRAKES to prevent “LOAD SWING”
As a manufacturer of large pipes, Liberty Steel has to take extra care to prevent “load swing” when handling particularly long pipe sections at its Hartlepool Works. Such sections can quickly become a hazard if allowed to get out of control, and have to be moved very carefully inside the works by EOT cranes. In particular, the Long Travel crane motion brakes need to be carefully and progressively applied, and traditionally this has always been by means of hydraulic foot pedal-operated drum brakes on their older cranes, which have proved increasingly difficult to maintain.
ICP were able to supply drop-in SIBRE 16” and 19” (Imperial) drum brakes with unique inverter-controlled ELDRO electrohydraulic thrusters by means of a “fly-by-wire” electronic foot pedal, giving very smooth and progressive braking control.
This latest installation is the third such carried out at the site, where this is now the preferred control method, having proven highly reliable. Units are available with either a simple foot-pedal operation, or can even incorporate a programmable pre-set ramp for crane operation by remote control.
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