Modern construction cranes are highly optimised. They’re designed to lift as much as possible, as far or as high as possible, while being able to fit into tight spaces when needed. To work safely and efficiently, they need to spread the weight of the load, and the crane, down to the ground they stand on, evenly and predictably.

A lift planner calculates how best to do this with the equipment available within the site constraints. Once, lift planners would work with two-dimensional drawings (or computerised tools) to map how a crane and its load would move through a job site. And they’d need to refer to a ‘load chart’ to check the crane’s capacity at each of these points.

But paper is unwieldy, so a new tool has been developed to make lifting calculations easier and quicker.

Guests

Wolfgang Boos, Product Manager, Liebherr

Andrew Lloyd, Lead Lifting Engineer, Select Plant Hire

Christoph Mai, Crane Planner Product Manager, Liebherr

Partner

The Liebherr Group is a family-run technology company with a broadly diversified product portfolio, which includes a total of 13 product segments. It is the global market leader for mobile and crawler cranes. 

Resources

For more information on Crane Planner 2.0, click here

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