Studying an approach for processing the balance beams of 200 tons gantry crane on the CNC boring machine

Abstract

   Gantry crane comes in many different sizes which can be used in many different types of industries. 200 tons gantry cranes are used to manufacture and fix ships. These cranes have two legs that are shaped in an Aframe. Each leg is joined on to two balance beams that have wheels. The balance beams of 200 tons gantry cranes are very complex and big. Therefore, it is very difficult to gain the technical requirements with the traditional processing methods. The paper presents an approach for processing the balance beams of 200 tons gantry crane on Wotan Rapid 4 CNC boring machine by establishing a processing program on the Inventor CAM software. The result shows that, the offered approach helps to reduce time and improve the accuracy level because of the holes of the balance beams being processed by fixing only once.