• Runway beam of a shop overhead crane

Lifting equipment

Design of lifting equipment and its supports, from a shop monorail to an overhead travelling crane, together with the accessories working below the hook.

  • Overhead travelling cranes
  • Monorails
  • Jib cranes and hoists
  • Spreader beams and below-the-hook accessories

Supporting structure

Lifting equipment loads the frame carrying it well beyond the load it lifts: dynamic effects, braking, lateral loads, fatigue over thousands of cycles. That is why adding an overhead crane to an existing building starts with verifying the supporting structure, not just sizing a runway beam.

  • Runway beams, end carriages and supports
  • Verification of the supporting structure
  • Bearings, corbels and anchorages
  • Runway beam and end carriage of an overhead crane, close-up
  • Crane runway beam bearing on an existing concrete corbel
  • Maximum capacity marking on the beam of a lifting device

Equipment in service

Verification of installations already in place: condition of components, conformity of the assembly, integrity of the anchorages, up-to-date records.

  • Periodic inspection of equipment in service
  • Certification following inspection
  • Updating the equipment record