During bauma 2022 Comansa Tower Cranes launched Crane Mate, its novel digital solution for fleet management. The Spanish tower crane manufacturer debuted it along with a number of new products.
As part of its commitment to the constant improvement of its products and services, Comansa has developed Crane Mate, a new digital solution for fleet management and crane monitoring.
The system provides real time technical information, location, alerts and crane productivity and maintenance parameters, as well as offering the possibility of reporting and configuring events and recording machinery lease periods, amongst other features. All of this translates to increased efficiency and time and cost savings.
The tower crane manufacturer officially presented this cutting-edge communications technology at the bauma 2022 trade fair.
Crane Mate consists of two elements:
• Hardware: complete kit pre-installed in the cranes in turnkey mode, made up of commercial devices that facilitate both replacements and maintenance on the one hand and retrofit on the other.
• Software: platform developed in-house for online access, with restricted, secure access offering a display with the machine’s settings and functions and other services useful to the client.
Thanks to all these features, Crane Mate offers advantages to optimise and reinforce the use of tower cranes in any construction project:
• Comprehensive crane fleet management
• Analysis and verification of hours worked, productivity and useful life of the crane
• Supervision of errors and alarms in real time
• Maximise fleet efficiency and profitability
• Reduction of operating and service costs
• Personalised data reports
• Ad-hoc integration with third party information technology platforms
From October 2022, all new Comansa tower crane orders will come with this new equipment included. Comansa will offer free trials, online tutorials and technical support for its clients. Comansa will keep developing new added value features and services over the coming years.
Comansa also expanded its range of luffing jib cranes with the launch of the LCH300, its first hydraulic model, with a maximum load capacity of 16 tonnes and reach of 60 metres.
The LCH300/16 t is available in various versions: embedded, supported on bases of 6 or 8 metres, or movable. The crane can be assembled with 2.5 x 2.5m tower sections. Its modular jib has a reach of 25 to 60m, with configurations every 5 metres. It has a minimum working radius of 4 metres and a minimum radius of 9 metres when out of service.
It has manual transmission combinations of 1t (direct pulling) and 2t. The maximum load capacity is 8t with the 1T configuration and 16t with the 2t configuration. The maximum load at the jib end is 3,400 and 3,150kg, respectively.
The luffing moves the jib and counter jib jointly by a hydraulic cylinder at the cathead and jib hinge assembly. The hydraulic pump unit is located on a movable platform in one piece.
From the cabin there is direct visibility of the lifting mechanism of between 50kW (standard) and 65kW (optional). Thanks to the Effi-Plus technology, it is possible to increase the speed of the lifting mechanism without affecting consumption, which allows loading cycles to be considerably reduced, thereby improving the productivity of the crane.
The design of this new rotating part – jib, cathead and counter jib – as well as the mechanism, cabin and hydraulic unit platforms, optimises the transport of this model, which may be supplied by 8 trucks or containers.
This new luffing jib crane from Comansa incorporates the award-winning CUBE Cab (L or XL) with Split type air conditioning. The cabin platform, like the lifting and hydraulic unit platforms, can be transported in a single piece.
Comansa luffing jib tower cranes offer optimal performance where horizontal jib cranes cannot move loads freely due to space limitations. Now, with the incorporation of the LCH300 hydraulic model, the luffing mechanism is optimised to offer even greater performance and an efficient assembly, as well as reduction of the radius when out of service.