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Test, test, test. Millimetre-precise position accuracy for long travels

Richard Habering | 14. August 2020

…directly from the crane’s control system. This would have made an additional positioning system superfluous. During these discussions, an astonishing number of customers mentioned the considerable assembly effort required for…

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Where are smart plastics used in the port?

Richard Habering | 22. September 2021

…among others, ship-to-shore cranes, bulk cargo handling cranes, RTGs, RMGs, Goliath cranes, spreaders and reach stackers. In total, more than 25,000 igus energy chains move across long distances every year,…

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Rol e-chain: development and application scenarios

Theo Diehl | 30. March 2020

…application for energy chain systems.

In the past, festooning, or cable trolley systems, were used in harbour crane technology, but the picture has changed considerably today. Many cranes such…

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Energy chains or motorised cable drum?

Marco Thull | 17. March 2020

Energy chain or motorised cable drum: which energy supply system comes out ahead? Probably there is no blanket answer here because, in the industrial world, no two applications have

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“Last line of defence” – How i.Sense EC.P saved an international port operator from massive total failure

Richard Habering | 26. October 2021

…stacker and spreader models and in bulk handling and dockside cranes in over a thousand port facilities worldwide. Also long travels, such as for ship-to-shore cranes or high speed ASC…

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