17-09-2014, 05:00 PM
Abstracts: This project is aimed to meet two requirements of material handling process in any industry. First requirement is to transport materials on a factory floor and the second requirement is to load components on the machine bed. This design has a swinging boom which can slide in order to adopt two configurations to accomplish the two tasks. In the first configuration, crane can lift loads and move them. In this case, no counter weight is required to stabilize the crane. In the second configuration, the boom has to be slide and locked in its second position. here, counter weight is required as the center of gravity of load is outside the base area of crane. Thus the designed crane can pick and place loads up to 1 ton on machine bed as it does not have any front support.