{"id":8658,"date":"2025-07-03T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/cranes-speed-up-grain-planter-production\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:09:03","slug":"cranes-speed-up-grain-planter-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/cranes-speed-up-grain-planter-production\/","title":{"rendered":"CRANES SPEED UP GRAIN-PLANTER PRODUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"BB Cranes has completed the installation and commissioning of five overhead cranes at Rovic\u2019s new agricultural machinery factory in Blackheath, Cape Town.\r\n
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Rovic\u2019s new factory in Blackheath, Cape Town, with the overhead cranes manufactured by BB Cranes installed and commissioned.<\/p><\/div>\r\nManufactured by BB at the company\u2019s works in Rivergate Industrial Park, Rovic ordered the cranes as an essential part of workflow re-engineering to achieve shorter assembly times and improved staff safety. These changes will increase production of the company\u2019s large and small-grain planters.\r\n\r\nBB manager Jan Nel explained that the design of the cranes for Rovic simplifies planter manufacture, allowing simultaneous assembly of individual machines at multiple points.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe achieved this by fitting twelve independently operated hoists to each of two identical double-girder overhead cranes that we made for Rovic,\u201d Nel said.\r\n

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Jan Nel, manager at BB Cranes.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\u201cThere are six hoists on each crane. They work to assemble multiple planters without having to move the cranes themselves.\u201d\r\n\r\nRovic\u2019s improved assembly sequence replaces the use of forklifts, which in a separate factory used to move components on an as-and-when-required basis to individual planter assembly points serviced by fixed gantries.\r\n\r\nIn the new assembly sequence, operators position the cranes over planter assembly points arranged in rows across the factory floor. The hoists work independently to service these points, picking and delivering planter chassis components and up to 53 identical planting units for fitting to each machine. There are no fixed gantries to obstruct factory movement.\r\n\r\nThe six hoists fitted to each of the twin double-girder overhead cranes comprise two 3,2-ton crab-mounted units for the chassis components, and four underslung 1-ton hoists fitted two to each girder for the planting units. All hoists work independently, the girders themselves being spaced at a wider-than-normal 2,5 metres to allow the dedicated chassis hoists to adjust component positions, again without any need to move the cranes.\r\n\r\nAll hoists are fitted with Optidrive variable-speed drives supplied by iTek.\r\n\r\nA third BB overhead crane, a 20-tonner, moves completed planters out of the factory for shipping.\r\n\r\nThere are two additional 2-ton single-girder BB cranes in the Rovic factory, bringing the total to five.\r\n

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Rovic\u2019s new factory in Blackheath, Cape Town, with the overhead cranes manufactured by BB Cranes installed and commissioned.<\/p><\/div>\r\nRovic manufactures a range of agricultural machinery marketed to customers worldwide under the Syncro brand. Products include large and small-grain planters, mist blowers, spreaders and tillage equipment.\r\n\r\nBB Cranes is a subsidiary of South African crane and hoist manufacturer Condra.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BB Cranes has completed the installation and commissioning of five overhead cranes at Rovic\u2019s new agricultural machinery factory in Blackheath, Cape Town. Manufactured by BB at the company\u2019s works in Rivergate Industrial Park, Rovic ordered the cranes as an essential…","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-53","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condra.co.za\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}