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Design
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SIMOCRANE Crane Management System
System overview
Installation sites and environment
The drive and control technology and the CMS station are loca-
ted in the electrical room.
An industry-standard Rack PC or a Panel PC can be used as
hardware platform. It is recommended that the embedded hard-
ware of the new generation of Rack PC or Panel PC is used, i.e.
with no moveable parts such as fan or hard drive, using a SSD
card instead. In this way high availability of the hardware com-
ponents can be achieved.
The user group mainly consists of service and maintenance
technicians. It is possible to call up detailed diagnostic informa-
tion here, by accessing documentation, circuit diagrams,
S7 programmable data blocks, etc. Also the service and main-
tenance personnel can perform Replay/Playback actions at
CMS in the electrical room.
The CMS operator panel in the crane driver cabin is preferably
a Touch PC and primarily supports the crane driver in his work.
The crane driver receives information on the fault messages, the
operating states and operating data, as well as readily under-
standable diagnostic information. It is only possible to set the
operating mode for the crane from the crane driver cabin; and
this also applies to activation and deactivation of the technologi-
cal functions, such as sway control or truck positioning.
The maintenance and system technicians are based here on
standby. They require remote access to the CMS systems of the
cranes. This requires a standard PC which, as web client, can
call up diagnostics and other information from every crane in the
terminal. From maintenance building the Replay function can be
activated and used on the CMS system.
Remote control of cranes can also be performed from the main-
tenance building as well.
In the case of a network of several cranes and a central data
server for long-term archiving and consolidated evaluation, the
RCMS server is located here and any further RCMS operator sta-
tions with remote access to the cranes.
Administrators, the plant operator, as well as maintenance and
service technicians or crane drivers with remote control desks
work here. The Replay function can be used via remote station,
in web environment, in order to visualize the information from the
past.
From an RCMS operator station, the terminal operator has a
complete overview of the crane terminal and can quickly access
an individual crane without the need to be physically on the
crane.
Electrical room
Crane driver cabin
Maintenance building/remote
crane access
Control center/control room
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