Technology

Some of the toughest and more unusual conditions are currently experienced by today’s underwater aquanauts. Divers are very often working alone, in conditions of variable depth water pressures and temperatures, combined with poor visibility while also battling with ocean currents.

The other day I was asked “what training do you need to drive a crane?”. While this might seem a simple question with a simple answer, it is actually a good deal more challenging.

Industrial Video and Control (IVC) is now offering the CZ-3041-1 crane monitoring system.

A new lifting related training company, SWL Training has been established in the UK by Kevin Bennison.

As technology has improved and cranes continue to get larger many lifts made in the past with two or more cranes are now being made with just one.

Carpenter Crane Hoist worked with Midwest Cleanroom Associates to install lifting equipment that met a variety of criteria, the most notable being the design of a crane that wouldn’t contaminate the lenses on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Crane & Rigging Hot Line announces that key organizations in the crane and rigging industry have signed up to sponsor the 2014 Top Trainer program.

An EOT crane lifts rocket and space equipment at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, one of the oldest launch sites in the world.

Administrative law judge David P. Shaw of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued an initial determination in the patent infringement and trade secrets case filed by Manitowoc against Sany cranes.

A team of 19 Potain tower cranes are helping to build the 1,285MW Xayaburi Dam in Laos.