OCH magazine

I spoke in the last issue about how battening down the hatches and waiting for the storm to pass could do far more damage to your business than looking beyond the economic gloom.  Plan now to gain later, I said.

The trouble with forensic market forecasts and visuals charting cyclical patterns and processes, is that folk can be lulled into a passive sense of security, thinking that everything ebbs and flows at its own pace and industries cannot be influenced or affected by the companies that work within them.

Chris Gilfilen, of US Crane, Inc., gives his take on crane inspection and maintenance.

The issues involving crane inspection and preventative maintenance are very numerous and very complex.  The qualifications of inspectors and the frequency of inspections seem to be the most difficult ones to tackle.

Plant and facility managers across the USA, Mexico and Canada are jeopardizing safety, wasting money and hampering productivity.  End users need to be given a better picture of the materials handling movement within their plants.