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Coil Handling Cranes
A coil handling crane delivers steel coils for unreeling and blank cutting. Once the steel is pre-cut to the right size—these pieces, or blanks—are pressed in a stamping machine to form the parts of a car body, such as the hood, doors, trunk, roof, and so on. Pressing involves a sequence of three to five consecutive stamping operations with forces ranging from 1,000 – 25,000 kN to produce the part.
Our coil handling cranes are designed to travel long distances at fast speed to keep work cycles short for the demanding production schedules of the automotive industry. Konecranes M-series or CXT cranes can provide safer and easier coil handling and can be customized for your specific requirements.
- Special heavy-duty trolley
- single or multi-trolley arrangement
- Smart feature
- Stiff box-type steel structure for the bridge and trolley
- Variety of speed range available.
- Heavy-duty hook block
- End-carriages/bogies are heavy duty with hardened wheels.
- Truconnect remote service capability
| M-series | CXT Smart | |
| Duty cycles | Up to 2 million | 250,000 |
| FEM | M6-M8 | Up to M6 |
| Trolley type | Compact open winch | Compact rope hoist |
| Lifting device | C-hook, coil magnet or coil grab | C-hook, coil magnet or coil grab |
| Lifting capacity, max. | Up to 63t | Up to 80t |
| Span | Tailored | Tailored |
| Lifting height, max. | Tailored | Tailored |
| Bridge/trolley travel speed | Tailored | Tailored |
| Manual/automated control | Cabin/radio/pendant | Cabin/radio/pendant |
| Bridge/trolley power supply | Conductors/festoon | Conductors/festoon |
| Motor control system | Konecranes variable frequency drives (VFD) | Konecranes VFD |
| Electrical braking | Resistors/regenerative network braking units optional | Resistors |
- Designed to maximize the working cycles per hour
- Precise and fast load handling with travelling speeds.
- Heavy duty use with trolley.
- Longer life and more return on investment due to core of lifting components
- Reduced vibration with stiff box-type steel structure
- Sway Control and Slack Rope Prevention available as an add on feature helps improves work area safety and productivity.
- Reduced cycle times with semi- and fully automated functions
- Simplified and minimized maintenance costs.
- Energy savings due to Regenerative braking (optional)
Die Gripper Cranes
In the press shops of the automotive industry, more than a million car body parts of various shapes and sizes for multiple models are produced every day. Due to this high variance, press die set needs to be changed frequently requiring shorter press-cycles. Die grippers enable fast, compact and multi-level die storage offering a significant improvement over conventional slinging equipment such as chains or ropes.
Our die gripper cranes are custom designed for die handling in the automotive industry and are available with intelligent sensor technology, advanced Smart Features, and a precise positioning system for the safe and efficient transport of press dies.
- Trolley with coupled open winches
- Design of all components considering a center of gravity eccentricity of 100mm, related to the max. die weight
- Stable 4-point load suspension with balancing rocker
- Millimeter-precise pendulum-free positioning
- Redundant laser or barcode measuring systems
- Sway Control
- Die gripper with integrated slewing gear
- Uniform utilization of the rope strands due to integrated compensating rocker
- Ropes tested for this application with high structural stability and high breaking load
- Optional rope drive
- Synchronized sensors designed redundantly and are evaluated in a fail-safe programmable logical controller (PLC)
| M-series die gripper crane | |
| Crane classification EN 13001 U-class (load cycles) | U7 |
| Crane classification EN 13001 Q-class (load collective) | Q5 |
| Hoist classification (FEM/EN) | M7/A7 |
| Trolley type | 2 coupled open winches |
| Duty cycles gripper | 2 million |
| Load capacity on tool gripper | Up to 66 tons |
| Die dimensions (length) | 1.650-4.850 mm |
| Die dimensions (width) | 1.200-2.850 mm |
| Die dimensions (height) | 1.600 mm |
| Positioning accuracy | +/-10 mm at the gripper |
| Positioning accuracy of the load rotation angle | +/-0.2 degrees at the gripper |
| Span | Up to 40 m |
| Lifting height, max. | 15 m |
| Lifting height with load | 12 m/min |
| Lifting height with empty gripper | 18 m/min |
| Bridge travel speed | Up to 100 m/min |
| Trolley travel speed | Up to 40 m/min |
| Trolley power supply | Energy chain or festoon cable |
| Manual control | Radio/pendant |
- Faster die change
- Safer die handling (pick-up, transport and drop off)
- Efficient, space-saving utilization of the available storage area
- Cranes and die grippers are customized as per customer requirements
- Optimized reeving with a minimum of rope sheaves gives a maximized rope service lifetime.
- Different level of automation possible: From manual operation to semi-automatic to fully automatic in combination with the Konecranes Warehouse Managing System
- Intelligent sensor technology recognizes safe load pick-up and detects the surrounding area of gripper to avoid collisions.
- All safety-relevant functions are controlled in performance level d (PL d), category 2, according to EN ISO 13849-1—this also includes bypassing restrictive areas and route-guided target positioning
- Crane and WMS Status visualizations on mobile devices
- Excellent accessibility to all components for maintenance and service activities
- Remote monitoring capability for informed maintenance planning
Die Handling Cranes
The core process cranes in the automotive industry are used to transport dies from storage to the press for loading the press and from the press back to storage. Die handling cranes are also used for turning dies for maintenance purposes. Konecranes has been supplying customized process cranes to the automotive industry for more than 40 years.
Konecranes die handling cranes are typically double-girder bridge cranes that can be equipped with various trolley configurations such as two winches on a common trolley or two individual trolleys, motorized rotating load hooks, or manually adjustable load crossbeams. Our Konecranes M-series and SMARTON open winch cranes are perfectly suited for die handling tasks.
- Two hoist trolley (THT) or separate trolley solutions
- Special features for safer load turning, rope angles up to 10 degrees possible
- Overload protection—system consists of load cells and overload detection unit
- Overspeed control of variable speed hoisting
- Smart Features
- Joystick Radio and pendant for backup and maintenance use
- Second brake for hoisting can be provided
- Frequency controllers for main movements
- Emergency brake
- TRUCONNECT Remote Monitoring
- Electrical room is pressurized and air-conditioned
M-series | Smarton | |
FEM | M6–M8 | M5-M7 |
Trolley Type | Open winch | Open winch |
Lifting capacity (Main hoist) | Up to 63T | 30-63 ton |
Lifting capacity (Aux hoist) | 20-32 tons | 20-32 tons |
Span | up to 35 m | up to 35 m |
Lifting height, max | Tailored | Tailored |
Bridge / trolley travel speed | Tailored | Tailored |
Manual Control | Radio/Pendant | Radio/Pendant |
Bridge/Trolley power supply | Conductors/Festoon | Conductors/Festoon |
Motor control system | Konecranes Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) | VFD |
Electrical Braking | Resistors/Regenerative network braking units optional | Resistors |
- Hoist synchronization provides fast and precise load handling
- Load turning features enable safe operation
- Semi-automated Smart Features help improve safety and productivity
- TRUCONNECT Remote Monitoring provides data for maintenance planning and assessing crane condition and safety
