Monitoring system and method
AssigneeBrandt Industries Canada Ltd.
InventorsMitch Stilborn, Chris Semple
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Abstract
A hoist lifting system having planning and monitoring of components. The system monitors one or more components and may have a processing structure and memory storing instructions to configure the processing structure to: receive hoist machine data; determine a rotation speed of a bearing, a travel speed of a rope, a load on the bearing, a friction in the at least one bearing based on the hoist machine data; and store the rotation speed, the travel speed, the load, and the friction in a maintenance database in memory. The hoist lifting system may have the processing structure determine a wear of one or more components.
Claims17
A lift monitoring system comprising:
- a processor;
- a transceiver in electrical communication with the processor;
- a display receiving display data from the processor;
- a human-machine interface transmitting user control signals to the processor;
- the processor executes instructions from a tangible computer-readable medium to:
- receive, by the transceiver, stability data, loading data, positional data, and velocity data associated with at least one hoist lifting system for lifting a load;
- calculate at least one adjustment required to increase or decrease a loading moment or a tipping moment of the at least one hoist lifting system;
- determine at least one suggested command corresponding to the at least one adjustment for the at least one hoist lifting system;
- transmit, by the transceiver, the at least one suggested command to the at least one hoist lifting system;
- receive a margin of safety from the human-machine interface;
- and
- retrieve environmental data from at least one survey database,
- wherein the environmental data comprises at least one trench distance, at least one ground slope in lateral and longitudinal directions, at least one ground condition, a number of hoist lifting systems, and a type of each hoist lifting system.
A lift monitoring system comprising:
- a processor;
- a transceiver in electrical communication with the processor;
- a display receiving display data from the processor;
- a human-machine interface transmitting user control signals to the processor;
- the processor executes instructions from a tangible computer-readable medium to:
- receive, by the transceiver, stability data, loading data, positional data, and velocity data associated with at least one hoist lifting system for lifting a load;
- calculate at least one adjustment required to increase or decrease a loading moment or a tipping moment of the at least one hoist lifting system;
- determine at least one suggested command corresponding to the at least one adjustment for the at least one hoist lifting system;
- transmit, by the transceiver, the at least one suggested command to the at least one hoist lifting system;
- and
- determining a wear of at least one component,
- wherein the at least one hoist lifting system comprises:
- at least one boom coupled by a pivot to a platform, the at least one boom having a pivot end and a lift end;
- a boom winch located proximate to the platform;
- a boom cable wound to the boom winch and configured to lift the at least one boom;
- a first block coupled to the lift end of the at least one boom, the first block having a first set of sheaves;
- a lift winch located proximate to the platform;
- a hoist cable wound to the lift winch and passing through the first set of sheaves within the first block and supported by a first axle;
- a second block having a second set of sheaves receiving the hoist cable from the first block and supported by a second axle;
- and
- the first set of sheaves and the second set of sheaves forming the hoist cable into a plurality of lift ropes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.