Today, heavy loads are often transported by rail bound crane systems. The paper-, steal- and freight-industries mainly use several cranes in one rail system to manage high occurrence of transports. This constellation demands special coordination of crane systems for certain requirements and might need the assignment of the cranes to specific working areas.Priorities of transport chronology have to be defined to avoid collisions between the several cranes. With every added crane you can get theoretically more transport capacity. But at the same time you will also have disproportional more efforts of control. Without a well-defined and tested operating strategy you cannot reach your target values.

Optimize the interaction of your crane systems

Following these growing interests, we offer a special simulation based control solution for the planning and test stage. Incontrol offers the ED MultiCrane-Controller System as an add-on to ED Logistics simulation software. This tool is useful for the simulation of existing as well as new planned crane systems. It supports you working out concepts and testing their reliability, while avoiding cost intensive down times of the real system.

The most important features at a glance:

• Simulation of 1 to 5 cranes per working line
• Selectable and adjustable pre-defined operating strategies
• Collision avoiding with influencing idle cranes to give way to the busy ones
• User-defined parameters for setting up a priority to sort the task list
• Dynamic connection to sources and sinks depending on task list
• User-defined clearance between cranes
• Free assignment of working areas per crane possible
• Comfortable user-interface for parameterisation
• Unlimited numbers of working lines