Overhead crane designs: I beam crane design vs. Box girder crane design

As one of the most established enterprise, Dongqi Overhead Crane is always seeking the solutions to meet the diversity demands of clients. Through years of communications with different kinds of clients, Dongqi Overhead Crane generally understand what is the client’s real needs and what they care. At the beginning, Dongqi Overhead Crane only provide the Chinese traditional cranes, recent years, Dongqi Overhead Crane invested mush on studying European style cranes and during the communications with clients, Dongqi Overhead Crane also found more and more crane designs: single girder / double girder overhead crane design, and these crane designs are more and more popular among clients; As a crane buyer, the most important is not factory scale and productivity, not price, but it is the most suitable crane design solution.

Considering the diversity demands, after some successful cases with clients, Dongqi Overhead Crane makes summary to emphasize on overhead crane diversities.

Crane Diversities here doesn’t mean customized cranes according to dimensions only, DONGQI provides crane designs according to the workshop site working demands and also the investment on the crane purchasing and buying, quality and site working requirements, etc. Take single Overhead Crane Girder: overhead crane for example:

Classical single Overhead Crane Girder: overhead crane design

Generally, the girder of single girde overhead crane is I-beam, and the lifting mechanism of which is Chinese traditional wire rope hoist, like below pictures. The advantages of Chinese traditional crane has are as follow: mature crane design, high safety standards, it is China’s historical heritage with thousands of practice, most clients prefer this crane design, because they believe in Chinese mature technology.

In order to reach diversity demands from clients, DONGQI provide the following more combinations for your options:

Overhead Crane Configuration Option 1:

• Overhead Crane Girder: box type,
• Lifting hoist: European style wire rope hoist

Box girder overhead crane with Euroepan wire rope hoist

This overhead crane design has advantage of less maintenance, light weight, compact structure, save much construction cost and future maintenance cost, in addition, three-in-one driving systems make the whole set of overhead crane in good performance.

Box girder overhead crane and FEM wire rope electric hoist

Overhead Crane Configuration Option 2:

• Overhead Crane Girder: box type,
• Hoist: Chinese traditional low headroom wire rope hoist

Overhead crane withChinese traditional low headroom wire rope hoist

This type of crane is developed on the basis of traditional type, it is designed to improve the lifting height, used in the workshop with limit height space, and the most important is that this type can not only meet the height requirements, make full use of space, but also the price is between traditional and European type, it is with the advantages of the above two.

Box girder overhead crane and low headroom hoist

Overhead Crane Configuration Option 3:

• Overhead Crane Girder: box type
• Crane Hoist : Special design wire rope hoist

Box girder overhead crane and electric hoist

This overhead crane and electric hoist combination make good use of the joint between crane hoist and overhead crane girder to improve the whole performance of overhead crane, of course the crane price is lower than European style and above the traditional type; this crane design demands is increasing now.

Overhead crane with customized electric hoist

Overhead Crane Configuration Option 4:

• Overhead Crane Girder: I-beam
• Crane Hoist: electric chain hoist

Overhead crane with electric chain hoist

The crane design has same performance with traditional crane design. Some clients prefer use electric chain hoist for it is good-looking and makes the workshop clean and tidy due to the chain bag design, which can put away the chains when it is not used. Whereas, the low headroom type can improve the lifting height.

Note: The overhead crane and electric hoist combinations are suitable for single girder gantry crane.

Dongqi Crane meets your working requirements and meets your price budget. No matter what you want, Dongqi Crane will find custom crane solutions for you.

• If you care much on crane price, traditional type overhead crane is your priority.
• If you want less noise, less maintenance, good performance, European overhead crane is here for you.
• If you care more on crane price, but want high performance crane, Dongqi Crane will send to you other 3 crane design options.

Dongqi Crane will continue to summarize and research more crane designs and solutions to meet different demands, and also welcome all the advices from worldwide. If you have any idea, please leave us a message