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The art of lifting heavy equipment with the help of cranes is inherent to the industry utilizing cranes. The lifting operation should be carried out carefully following the standard safety protocols and hand signals. If the lifting operation is not carried out following safety protocols accidents may happen on the site that may cause serious injuries, casualties, damaging the machine, and cause huge losses.

The overhead load may be anything ranging from light loads to heavy loads. While using lifting machine-like cranes the task becomes challenging. ABCO Engineers one of the top Goods Lift Manufacturers in Bangalore have identified that most of the injuries and casualties that happen onsite during crane operation are due to human errors and negligence that include miscommunication in hand signal, not inspecting the machine before use, overloading the machine, improper maintenance and not having backup plans for accidents.

Considering the safety point of view it is necessary to understand different types of overhead cranes and utilize the same for your application. Each type of overhead crane has different advantages, limitations, and load capacity.

Overhead cranes are useful to improve work efficiency, capacity, and productivity. However, choosing a perfect overhead crane for specific work is the most important thing. Hiring the right overhead crane can accommodate much easier work than choosing the wrong choice. Below are the different types of overhead cranes used in the industry;

1. Gantry Cranes

A gantry crane is a movable frame of crane that supports large pieces of equipment like railroad signals, rockets, and cranes.

A big granty crane is something like that could lift large pieces of things like a garage, house, or something else. Granty cranes are mostly installed at shipping and container yards, rail yards, and under-constructed areas.

Small granty cranes are seen for garage works and at fabrication shops.

2. Jib Cranes

These cranes are normally built-in inside of the building and use the structure of the building for its support.

Jib cranes are usually joined with an electric chain that is able to rotate by hand. This process is very efficient for lifting over short distances.

In production and assembly lines, factories, and in mines jib cranes are commonly noticed.

3. Bridge Cranes

These cranes are normally built-in inside of the building and use the structure of the building for its support.

For moving forward and backward, in an overhead bridge crane always hoist a chain to move left or right.

Bridge crane is used mostly in automotive factories to paper mills. For moving something very heavy, experts used this crane to make the job easier.

4. Workstation Cranes

This is a type of bridge crane but whether it comes to support it has its own floor-mounted support in the place of building support.

To make a building strong enough, use this type of crane instead of a bridge crane. It is more efficient and useful than a bridge crane.

Garage mechanics and fabricators used this type of crane mostly. Lifting capability of these types of cranes from around half a ton to several tons.

5. Monorail Cranes

Monorail cranes look unique among other cranes. Their host doesn’t move left or right like a bridge crane, it just goes up and down.

As they can adjust to unique situations, these cranes are often useful in incorporated assembly lines.

6. Top-running Cranes

These cranes are being mounted on their runway beams.

These cranes are beneficial for lifting capacity than bridge cranes.

7. Under-running Cranes

Ceiling height is the key factor for using this type of crane. Sometimes people don’t have tall ceiling factories to work in. In these cases, under-running cranes are the only possible configuration.