Syngineering Designs Vacuum Pipe Lifter – 40tonne WLL
Written on September 15, 2013
Syngineering has worked with a Queensland manufacturer to develop a vacuum pipe lifter used to lift 10tonne pipes from the hull of a ship and move the pipes to a waiting truck. The pipes range in diameter up to 450mm and up to 14m in length.
The team of engineers, draftsman and tradesman at Syngineering were heavily involved throughout the project from not initial concept stages through manufacturing and ultimately, preparing as built drawings to record the changes made during the final manufacturing of the vacuum lifters.
The Syngineering engineers made extensive use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) throughout the design. This allowed the engineers to optimise the weight of the vacuum lifter.
Syngineering have designed the vacuum lifter to be entirely self contained with on board vacuum tanks and control systems. The lifters also included fork tine slots to allow the lifter to be safely moved around the dock yard using a 16tonne forklift.
The Syngineering team also included certified lifting lugs to allow the vacuum lifter to moved around the dock yard.
Syngineering not only provided manufacturing drawings but 3D models, DXF files for laser cutting of components but also rendered images for marketing brochures and RPEQ certification for the project.
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