On-demand webinar – 34 minutes
When the crane stops,
the plant stops.
■ Signal present
Sensor asleep, 2 to 6 weeks
■ Failure
How steel mills are catching hoist and long travel faults weeks before they take the shift down.
A working conversation on why crane condition monitoring goes quiet at exactly the moment a fault signature is strongest, and what a prescription looks like when it replaces an alert.
- Why battery-powered sensors that wake three to five times a day leave a blind spot before a failure that should have surfaced on the dashboard weeks earlier
- The gap between “vibration trending high” and a work order that names the component, the fault mode, the evidence and the deadline
- A field case where a main hoist motor fault was flagged 12 days early, turning a mid-shift stoppage into a scheduled repair
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Chaiitanya Bulusu
Senior Vice President & Head Americas Partnerships, Infinite Uptime
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Maximiliano Scarano
Regional Marketing Manager, Infinite Uptime
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What you will take away
Four things the session leaves you with, whether or not a crane is on your capex list this year.
The blind spot
Three sensing failures that stack
Sleep-cycle sensors that miss the peak-stress window, adhesive mounts that degrade under foundry heat and dust, and silence that gets read as health rather than absence.
The architecture
Sensing, AI and a human in the loop
Always-on hardwired IP68 sensing rated to 180 °C, edge-level RPM-gated FFT that fires only inside the stable speed band, and Category III and IV experts who validate every prescription before release.
The coverage
19 fault modes, five clusters
Mechanical, bearing and rotor fault modes mapped across the main hoist, the drive train and the long travel wheel systems, including the looseness that quietly fatigues everything around it.
The commitment
What deployment costs in access
One day of planned crane stoppage, live within three days, with no dependency on your VFDs, your SCADA or your crane management system.
MostLive poll response
Not confident. It could surprise us.
How the majority of attendees answered when asked whether they would catch their most critical crane’s next major fault before it failed.
Answered live in the session
Questions came from maintenance and reliability teams across three continents.
01
Does this work on older cranes, or only on new installations?
02
We already run a CMMS. Does this replace it?
03
Do we need a vibration analyst or an extra headcount to act on the output?
04
On a 100-ton EOT crane, how do you read bearing health through VFD pulsating torque and cross signals from the girder in long travel mode?
Bring your own crane to the conversation.
Thirty minutes with Infinite Uptime’s reliability team, on the assets you would least like to lose mid-shift.