Assisting The Gas Industry: The Benefits Of Gantries
The gas industry is one of the most complex and challenging industries in the world today. It requires absolute precision in all aspects of operations. At the same time, it must achieve and maintain the highest standards of safety, operational efficiency and sustainability. Here is a quick guide to how rotating gantries are helping the gas industry meet its goals.
The Basics Of Rotating Gantries
The SHEARFORCE gantry delivers the traditional benefits of a gantry structure plus additional flexibility. Essentially, the rotating head means the bases can be offset from each other. This means it’s much easier to work around obstacles and/or in confined spaces.
SHEARFORCE rotational gantries come in both steel and aluminium. They offer the same level of functionality but have their own distinct qualities. Steel tends to be the default choice in most situations due to its robustness. If, however, a business needs a highly portable gantry, then aluminium is likely to be the better choice due to its lightness.
The Benefits Of The SHEARFORCE Gantry In The Gas Industry
The SHEARFORCE gantries have many benefits within the gas industry and help to manage some of the following key challenges:
- Safety
SHEARFORCE offer two gantries which offer similar performance. This allows COMAH sites to choose a product that offers performance but in a material that does not conflict with other materials onsite for example, an aluminium gantry on a corroded steel structure could result in a spark, which is not desirable. Therefore, choosing a steel gantry with a similar performance would be more suitable.
- Stability
The gantries are designed with stability in mind that prevents toppling.
- Enhanced access to equipment for maintenance
Due to the performance of the SHEARFORCE gantry, it allows all the placements of a chain block above items to be lifted in plantrooms which have concrete plinths and piers which need to be negotiated.
- Minimising manual handling
The fact that rotating gantries can be used in places where it would be impractical to use regular gantries means that they can minimise the need for unassisted manual handling. This reduces the physical demands on workers. It therefore reduces their vulnerability to both injury and fatigue. Moreover reducing fatigue reduces the potential for human errors that might compromise safety.
- Operational efficiency
The SHEARFORCE gantries also offer three main efficiency benefits over regular gantries.
5.1 Reduction in downtime
By enabling quick and precise positioning of equipment, the rotational gantry helps minimise downtime during maintenance and repairs. The ability to swiftly access, lift, and rotate machinery ensures that necessary maintenance tasks are completed promptly, allowing production to resume without prolonged interruptions.
5.2 Optimised space utilisation
The SHEARFORCE rotational gantry helps to maximise the use of available space within production/plant facilities. Their uniqueness allows for better access to loads that require lifting and moving.
5.3 Sustainability & Maximum Productivity
The sustainability benefit of rotating gantries essentially derives from their robustness and time-efficient features. The SHEARFORCE gantry enables the gas industry to reach maximum productivity with minimal resources. This is the most sustainable way of operating in any industry.
Moreover, by lightening the burden on human workers, rotating gantries make working in the gas industry a more sustainable occupation for people at the front line of production.
For example, by reducing the need for manual handling, SHEARFORCE gantries reduce the wear and tear on workers’ joints and muscles. This protects them from both short-term injury and long-term, chronic issues.
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