A crane that is looked at on a schedule comes down when you plan it. Brake wear, rope condition, drift in the travel gear and a loose terminal all announce themselves early. A planned visit finds them and closes them before they cost you a shift.
Periodic maintenance, also called preventive maintenance, is planned work on a schedule. Under a maintenance agreement your cranes are checked four times a year, on dates set around your production plan. Each visit ends with a written findings report. Original parts, priority response when a crane stops, and any brand: overhead, gantry, jib and process cranes, hoists, transfer cars and explosion-protected equipment.
The parts that decide whether a load stays up are measured to a figure. Wear is recorded visit by visit, so you see the trend long before a limit is reached.
Gear oil, couplings, wheels and rail contact. Misalignment wears wheels and rails quietly, and correcting it while it is still small costs little.
Terminal connections, contactors, festoon or conductor bar, limit switches, the overload switch and the load cell. Loose connections cause most intermittent faults.
Girder, end carriages, bolted connections and welds, by visual check. Every finding is written down with a photograph, so the crane's history exists on paper when someone asks.
On Explosion-protected cranes the visit also covers the protection itself: cable glands, seals, conduit runs and surface temperature.
Interval
Four visits a year is our standard, and our recommendation for a crane in normal industrial use: overhead, gantry, jib or process.
Duty class and environment move that figure. A crane that lifts twice a day and one that runs two shifts in a dusty plant are not the same machine to plan for. The duty class guide sets out how the class is decided.
More attention than standard
Where ABRA Crane Tracking is fitted, there is a usage record to plan against instead of an assumption.
Our intervals are structured with reference to ISO 9927-1 and to the manufacturer's instructions.
The agreement
Five steps, from the first look at your equipment to what happens between visits:
We see the cranes, their duty class, their environment and whatever history exists.
Which cranes, how many visits, what is covered and what is not. All of it written down before the first visit.
Four a year as standard, scheduled around your production plan.
Each visit ends with a written report. Work outside the agreed scope is quoted first, and nothing is done without your approval.
Priority response, and on-site cover within 48 hours anywhere in Türkiye.
| Under a maintenance agreement | Case by case | |
|---|---|---|
| Visit planning | Four scheduled visits a year, planned around your shutdowns | On request, subject to workload |
| Findings record | Written report and photo record per crane, kept over time | Per intervention only |
| Response when a crane stops | Priority response | Standard queue |
| Spare parts | Critical items identified in advance | Identified when the fault occurs |
| Inspection readiness | Crane kept in condition and prepared ahead of the inspection date | Arranged separately |
| Usage record | Available where ABRA Crane Tracking is fitted | Not applicable |
Crane data
A maintenance plan is only as good as what is known about the crane. ABRA Crane Tracking records how a machine is actually used: running hours, number of starts, load pattern and fault events.
A machine running well below its assumed duty and one running above it are not the same case. The record shows which one you have. Crane Tracking can be retrofitted to cranes built by other manufacturers, and it records use and condition, not location.
After-sales
FAQ
Yes. Service, spare parts, modernisation and Crane Tracking retrofit are all brand independent. On an older crane the first question is whether the remaining design working period still supports the duty being asked of it. The site review answers that.
Yes, and hoists, transfer cars and explosion-protected equipment with them. Visit content changes with the equipment. A jib crane takes far less time than a double girder process crane, and explosion-protected equipment adds the protection checks. One agreement can cover every lifting machine on a site.
No. In Türkiye the statutory periodic inspection of lifting equipment is carried out by an authorised inspection body, and the report comes from them. Our half of the job is keeping the crane in condition, preparing it for the inspection date, and closing out the findings that come back.
It goes into the written report with a recommendation and a priority. Anything affecting safe operation is reported to you on the spot. Work and parts outside the agreed scope are quoted first, so a visit ends without surprises.
The number and type of machines, their duty class, the environment, the site location, and how much falls inside the covered scope. We price it after the site review, because a price set without seeing the cranes changes later.
Get a maintenance plan
Tell us what you run and where. We will look at the equipment and its condition, and come back with a maintenance plan you can price against.
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Designed to EN 15011, the EN 13001 series and EN 14492-2, with FEM 9.511 as a complementary reference · CE marked under 2006/42/EC · duty class and standards guide → duty class guide
