Heavy machines experience
Heavy machines experience
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Hi All,
I'm working for a company in the printing industry. Lately we start developing a new machine, which is about 5 ton weight. Since our current experience is with only 2 tons machines, I would like to learn from your knowledge and your experience more about moving heavy and precise parts and about the logistic methods (packaging, shipping etc') we might meet during the production process.
Thank you in advance,
Aharon
I'm working for a company in the printing industry. Lately we start developing a new machine, which is about 5 ton weight. Since our current experience is with only 2 tons machines, I would like to learn from your knowledge and your experience more about moving heavy and precise parts and about the logistic methods (packaging, shipping etc') we might meet during the production process.
Thank you in advance,
Aharon





RE: Heavy machines experience
A.R. "Andy" Nelson
Engineering Consultant
anelson@arnengineering.com
RE: Heavy machines experience
Know how big the doors and aisleways are in the building where the machine is to be housed. Walk through the total transportation from your facility to the customer's. Build in rigging points based on the center of gravity.
RE: Heavy machines experience
I'm not sure it will help; the best riggers I know communicate mostly with whistles and grunts, and an occasional burst of Spanish. I have on occasion tried to chat up their foreman, but he's busy, and being paid to be busy, when I see him, and I don't think he speaks 'engineering'.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Heavy machines experience
If the machine is so sensitive as to be possibly damaged by normal handling and moving, then your shipping base or crate needs to be sufficiently robust to provide the stability necessary formoving.
The packaging will, to a degree, affect the class of freight that the trucking company categorizes it as, and subsequently, how careful they are with it. Never ship without insurance.
RE: Heavy machines experience
A.R. "Andy" Nelson
Engineering Consultant
anelson@arnengineering.com
RE: Heavy machines experience