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director of SWF Krantechnik, with his colleague Karlheinz Schäfer, product manager for Wire Rope Hoists, can tell us more. “Currently SWF Krantechnik is working on the gradual modernization of all of its electrical components,” they explain. “We are laying the foundation for the development towards Industry 4.0. and preparing for the new digital and interconnected working environment. To this end we are currently developing a hardware platform for monitoring single hoists and cranes up to sophisticated installations that consist of several cranes.” In other words, your lifting system does
not have to be huge or high-capacity to become automated. As we have said,
even little hoists can join this brave new world. “The new SWF hardware platform is fully scalable. The Nova Silverline electric wire rope hoist series is designed for loads from 500kg up to 80t and the complete series can be designed as automated process cranes.” How does it all work? “The hardware
platform is supplemented by further electrical components which will be launched step by step. The complete package includes firstly a new hardware for hoist monitoring. Our original ‘NovaMaster’ hoist monitoring system will be replaced by the digitally networked successor called OMNI control. Going forward, OMNI control will be a cornerstone for digitally optimized work
processes and will open doors towards all digital network technology of the future to ensure hoist management in perfection.” Digital control works best on frequency
inverter motors. “SWF has a new generation of frequency inverters, the VARIO control series” say Feldhinckel and Schäfer. “It works on the CANbus network, which means that it is already equipped for the future. The VARIO control frequency inverter is configured by using a Bluetooth dongle connecting to a smartphone app.” (Observe here the ubiquity of the smartphone, otherwise known to computer-heads as the digital- human interface. It looks like becoming an integral part of Industry 4.0.) “Going forward” they say, “the advantages
R The OMNI control and VARIO control systems from SWF
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