How to Select a Crane for Your Business

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12-Dec-2006 How to Select a Crane for Your Business from Bomac Engineering

Bomac Engineering has put together a guide to choosing a crane that we hope will make it easier for you to ask the right questions when searching for materials handling solutions for your business.

As your business grows, you will need to keep up with the needs of both your customers and your employees. Your existing customers may be placing larger orders, or your customer base as a whole might be growing. If this is the case, you are probably looking for an efficient way to increase your productivity.

Along with efficiency, you also want to ensure the health and safety of your employees. If they are manually lifting heavy products, or even light products in repetition, that will eventually take a toll on their backs and legs.

One mechanical tool that can help you solve all of these problems without having to incur excessive costs, such as more employees or larger facilities, is a workstation crane.

This paper outlines the types of cranes available and several important things to take into consideration when selecting a crane. Please visit our website to download this paper as a PDF or view the information as a web page.

This guide will help you determine:

Why use a crane at all?

What types of cranes are available?
Jib
Monorail
Gantry
Enclosed Track
I-Beam
External Track

Five things to consider when choosing a crane
Your application
Your environment
The requirements of your facilities
Quality
Long- and short-term costs

The two most importantcharacteristics to look for when choosing a crane company
Expertise
Service

This paper is free to download, print and share with your colleagues.

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