How to Collaboratively Design Electrical Overhead Traveling Crane through SOLIDWORKS

          The overhead crane, commonly called bridge crane, is a type of equipment most commonly found in all industries used for handling heavy machinery and structures. Here we designed Electrical overhead traveling crane embedded with a lot of safety features and more ergonomic to ensure the worker's safety, as well as material they handle and this model, is designed by using solid Works collaborative environment which handles both mechanical and electrical design seamlessly without any repeated chores.

          This EOT Crane is driven by 3 Electrical Synchronous Brake Motors and one specialized Electric Motor with advanced features. In addition to that, it is loaded with a lot of sensors for efficient working with real-time feedback which makes the machine more consistent & precise and capable of carrying heavy loads. For a like, limit switch used to interrupt motor power to prevent hook over travel and hazardous condition such as chain kink. This whole crane is controlled by both wireless radio remote and pendant depends on the working environment.

SOLIDWORKS Mechanical 3D Design:

          SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD allows you to create models based on parametric and features. Which reduces design cycle time and improving quality with a rich graphical representation.

• Automate your design process makes manual works eliminated and design more precise and reliable.
  
• Easily incorporate late design changes.
• Test and evaluate  your designs to reduce costs from quality problems.
• Automatic Bills of Materials.
• More effective internal design reviews.
• Create marketing content in parallel with design development using PhotoView 360.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematics:

       We designed crane control and power circuit by using SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematics. Schematic software is quite powerful while coming to electrical system design and the schematic user interface is more colourful, enables users to easily access to tools. Schematic is loaded with more than 500000 manufactured parts with an electrical content portal which makes the design process quick and detailed. We can manipulate previous design data by employing macros to save the project process time.

Benefits:

• Reducing Development Costs
• Improving Quality and Increasing Innovation
• Automated terminal drawing creation
• Automated contact cross-referencing
• Avoid time-to-market delays
• Bill of Material and report creation delivers a comprehensive detail.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D:

          Electrical 3D software enables users to convert 2D electrical system to 3D electrical system it includes Enclosure design, general arrangement, connectors, wires, and cable routing and wire harness. It has a capability of connecting bi-directional link between Mechanical CAD & Electrical CAD which makes software more powerful and unique from other CAD software in the market. Therefore, both mechanical engineer and electrical engineer will work collaboratively without any interruption. While coming to cabinet design, it employs drag and drop manufacture 3D part to the software without downloading the part file from their website. Routing wires and cables are one of the major features in electrical 3D, So that we can visualize the whole routing system moreover this would reflect in precise wiring and workmanship on end of the product.

Benefits:

• Easy and correct placement of components
• Wire and Cable length calculation
• Auto Route functionality
• Create a 3D general arrangement drawings based on the electrical schematic
• Harness development