SPECIALISED TRANSPORT Ӏ SECTOR REPORT
Cometto's Eco1000 proves popular for moving steel parts in Germany
Rosslauer shipyard moving Kranbau Köthen’s large crane beam
Tii Scheuerle's Power-Hoss SPMT models are available with two, four and now six axle lines, offering 80, 180 and 330 tonnes of payload respectively
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its complete SPMT series. The PowerHoss models are available with two, four and, now, six axle lines and offer up to 80, 180 and 330 tonnes of payload respectively.
INTELLIGENT TELEMATICS
At the show Tii Scheuerle also launched a telematics system for use on its SPMTs. The system, called TII Connect, facilitates predictive service management, the company claims, with the vehicle automatically reporting the need for any servicing. Dispatchers therefore have sufficient time to direct the vehicle to the workshop and at a time when it least disrupts daily work procedures. Any possible damage is also reduced, Tii Scheuerle adds.
In addition to predictive service management, TII Connect has options for data analysis and process comparisons (business intelligence) along with equipment condition monitoring. The trade show also provided
the opportunity for Tii Scheuerle to start celebrating the 40th anniversary of the SPMT. In 1983, Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik – Tii Scheuerle's original name – introduced the modular platform transporter with a container width of 2,430 millimetres for long-time customer Mammoet. For a country so rich in
opportunities as the USA it’s no wonder that European equipment manufacturers are ensuring that the market’s unique requirements are being so well met.
Cometto’s Eco1000 self-propelled, electronically steered, compact modular vehicle is fi nding popularity with end users moving steel parts in Germany. The Rosslauer shipyard near the city of Dessau, for
example, has been using a four-axle Cometto’s Eco1000 to transport steel loads. One job was to move a 140 tonne crane beam belonging to Kranbau Köthen. The beam was 58.6 metres. This meant it protruded beyond the Eco1000’s Long Frame loading platform by 21.78 metres on one side and 25.17 metres on the other. “Due to the high centre of gravity and the payload capacity of the Cometto self-propelled vehicle attention had to be paid to the transverse inclination of the Eco1000 during the journey,” said Cometto's sales manager Joachim Kolb. “The driver, Thomas Bräuer, was helped by the automatic level control, allowing him to take a more relaxed approach to the whole thing." And in Plauen, Plauen Stahl Technologie – which specialises in the planning, manufacture, logistics and assembly of steel structures for bridges, for structural and plant engineering and for hydraulic steel construction – used its new four-axle Eco1000 to deliver bridge sections and position them on their elephant feet. The modular vehicle’s electronic 90-degree steering enabled it to drive transversely between the support blocks. As the vehicle was being used on public roads
Cometto equipped it with bumpers and lighting systems. It also ensured that necessary TUV certifi cation was obtained for road use in advance of delivery so that there were no delays.
Plauen Stahl Technologie delivering bridge sections
Tii Scheuerle is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the SPMT
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