Crane Maintenance
It pays to ensure that your cranes are maintained and serviced correctly to comply with Workplace Health and Safety. Changes to the Australian Standards relating to overhead cranes and hoists have resulted in more frequent general service inspections and additional in-depth inspections to be carried out at specific intervals during the working life of the overhead crane.
How can we help you?
Preventative maintenance
Inspections
Overhauls
Repairs
24 hour breakdown support
Modernisations
Major assessments/inspections
Shutdown support
Compliance/maintenance services
Reduce the total cost of ownership of your lifting equipment
Keep your cranes in safe operating condition
Improve availability of equipment
Regular inspections and advanced reporting extends the life of your equipment
Perform your repairs when it suits you, minimising costly downtime
Improve the return on your investment of your lifting equipment with a thorough maintenance regime
Routine inspections
Inspections will be carried out in conformance with the appropriate parts of AS2550.
Equipment specific inspection checklists
Trade qualified technicians
Technicians with the highest documented training
Instantaneous digital reporting including photos
Annual periodic third-party inspections
An annual periodic third-party inspection provides independent advice on whether the level of maintenance and repairs are in accordance with AS2550.1. As part of the proposed inspections, the maintenance records of the crane shall be reviewed prior to the inspection. The inspection has been designed to inspect equipment for deficiencies and violations.
Fully independent crane inspectors
Comprehensive report
Design Work Period (DWP) calculation completed
Major assessments
The major assessment will contain a theoretical part, where the remaining design life of each component of the crane is analysed based on the duty estimation, and a practical part, where physical inspections of all critical components and systems of the crane are inspected for integrity and functionality.
Checking the remaining life of the critical components,
RPEQ Crane Engineers
Identify components that have reached their design life
Comprehensive report provided with results and significant findings.
Requirements for any action to be completed before further use of the crane.
Recommendations for actions to be carried out within a given operational time.
Overhauls and refurbishments
Recertification of your crane and hoist extends working life and ensures their safe, productive and profitable operation.
Establish the most economical options: Major Assessment, Major Inspection or Replacement under the supervision of a RPEQ Crane Engineer
Hoist replacements
Non-destructive testing of structure
General overhaul
Upgrades and modernisations
Extend the life of your equipment
Extends the life of your equipment and improves efficiencies.
Pendant to radio control
Variable speed drives
Radio interface
Electrical upgrades
Busbar and power supply
Under hook lifting gear inspections
Onsite inspections
Chains, slings and lifting attachments
Height safety equipment
Colour coded tagging system
Comprehensive equipment register
Qualified technicians
24 hour breakdown support
NQCranes operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Our network of on-call technicians will respond swiftly in the event of a breakdown and will endeavour to remedy your problem immediately.
Call 1300 761 822
at any time of the day or night, for a prompt and effective response from one of our highly experienced, reliable crane technicians
Game changing innovation.
Improving our team.
NQCranes was established in Mackay in 1987 as a crane and hoist supplier and service provider, particularly for the shipping industry. Today it supplies customers all over the Australia and has a team of 100 staff servicing 15,000 items of equipment.
Stephen Goodson is the one-man-band IT manager; he is in charge of everything from network design to system administration. It was an approach that worked for years – but it was risky for him to take leave or get sick. Also Goodson can’t scale – he’s just one man.
To put the business on a better footing for the future Goodson proposed a rethink – move the systems to the cloud, partner with a trusted technology company and forge a strong alliance with a well credentialled partner.
Enter Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint Online, The Power Platform and Microsoft partner, apache.com.au
In partnership with Microsoft, NQCranes now saves valuable time with a transition to an all-in-one business management solution.