Site efficiency: controlling construction cranes with Brick and Pail industrial radio remote controls

Site efficiency: controlling construction cranes with Brick and Pail industrial radio remote controls

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In the construction sector, lifting management via construction cranes requires a perfect blend of mechanical power and precision. Whether dealing with large tower structures or self-erecting models, the safety radio remote control is the indispensable tool that allows the operator to govern the load with maximum freedom of movement and total protection within the job site.

The Lifting Landscape: From Towers to Urban Construction Sites

To understand the importance of reliable control, it is necessary to look at the different machines that can be used on construction sites:

  • Tower Cranes: They represent the most recognizable element of urban skylines. They combine great height with a constant lifting capacity along the entire horizontal jib, covering the entire work area of a growing building.
  • Luffing Jib Cranes: They are distinguished by the ability to raise the jib upwards, almost vertically. This allows operation in extremely narrow spaces or between very close buildings, preventing the rotating structure from hitting obstacles or invading neighboring airspace.
  • Mobile Cranes: They offer superior versatility, being mounted on wheeled vehicles with hydraulic stabilizers. They guarantee a fundamental movement speed for rapid interventions at different points of a very extensive construction site.

The REMdevice Response: Born for the Construction Site

REMdevice developed the Brick and Pail solutions starting from a real analysis of the field: difficult environments where work is constantly carried out amidst dirt, dust, and liquids, often exposed to extreme temperatures and bad weather.

Highly Resistant Materials: The Nylon Housing

To withstand these conditions, the housing of every pushbutton station and manipulator is made of glass-fiber reinforced nylon.

This material guarantees:

  • Extreme Thermal Resistance: Designed to operate with precision in a critical temperature range, from -20°C to +70°C.
  • Maximum Impact Protection: The rigid casing and internal electronics are developed to withstand accidental falls and mechanical stress. The IP65 protection rating guarantees a radio remote control resistant to dust, water, oils, and acids.
  • Ergonomics and Precision with Gloves: The surface design is shaped and specifically studied to offer clear tactile feedback even when wearing work gloves.

REMdevice Innovation: Total Protection of Electronics

Unlike most products on the market, REMdevice systems feature a unique structure: they do not use external replacement batteries.

This design choice eliminates the presence of openable battery compartments or exposed electrical contacts. The result is a completely sealed safety radio remote control, where the internal electronics remain constantly protected from infiltrations of moisture, dust, or cement residue, guaranteeing a long service life for the product over time.

Tailor-made Technology: Brick and Pail

The Brick Pushbutton System: Compactness and Agility

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The light and manageable, yet resistant, transmitting unit is easily programmable and boasts a record operating duration without the need for recharging: up to 35 hours of work. Being the first and only one featuring a patented induction charging system, it is completely isolated from dust and moisture. The pushbutton system is configurable for the most demanding applications, ideal for continuous work without fear of machine downtime.

The Pail Manipulator: Maximum Control

Pail is a reliable and efficient manipulator in the field of safety radio remote controls for cranes. This induction charging system console is manageable and easy to use even with gloves and is completely isolated from dust and moisture. This manipulator is configured with extreme ease to respond to the needs of every application, being able to house from 2 to 5 joysticks, in addition to selectors, potentiometers, displays, and data feedback systems.

Long-lasting Energy: Induction Charging System

The absence of external batteries is made possible by the induction charging system. This technology eliminates potential oxidation problems of exposed metal contacts, offering high energy performance:

  • Standard Autonomy: With only 5 hours of charging, the radio remote controls can work for up to 35 hours of continuous operation.
  • Emergency Charge: Only 20 minutes of charge are needed to cover an entire working day.

Conclusions

The adoption of Brick and Pail systems guarantees reliable and precise remote control in various working contexts on the construction site. Thanks to its concept and high-resistance materials, REMdevice solutions offer operators a product resistant to impacts and wear, capable of working in very difficult contexts.

Find out more about the Brick pushbutton system and the Pail manipulator.

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Recycling sector: product traceability, use of data and intelligent systems.

Recycling sector: product traceability, use of data and intelligent systems.

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New solutions and opportunities in the recycling sector to encourage the recovery of materials.

Digital transformation is also involving the waste recycling industry and parts of sector in which waste often represent a disposal problem. The use of this technological solutions can bring significant opportunity for the economy employment and also reduce the request of raw materials.

This change is already bringing concrete improvements. In future these technological solutions could affect different aspects including the management systems and the current equipment.

Among the most interesting aspects, those that will receive a substantial and more significant change will be:

  • Waste collection systems in general
  • Solutions for transport logistics
  • Cloud computing systems

In the future, the use of data and intelligent solutions, will allow to increase and promote a significant transformation. The recycle of materials and its awareness, will be more concrete in all the different sectors and along the entire supply chain. We will be “called” to work and contribute continuously to this transformation. All of us will be asked to have an active role for the implementation and design of new solutions from the beginning. Users also will be included.

DIGITAL SOLUTIONS AND COLLABORATION IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

Different technology like IoT, could help to optimize and increase the capacity and operation of waste management systems. This could help to consolidate the relationship with customers in a solid way.

The main aspects that have to be considered are:

  • The use of technology and sensors to monitor levels and material
  • The spread of applications and software to collect data
  • Re-use material database
  • Collaboration of the whole chain and crowdsourcing solutions

TOWARDS THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY; A FOCUS ON THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR

In the construction sector for example, several wastes are produced.

The improvement and recovery of waste materials also arise from proposals and solutions from different stakeholders, with the aim of a circular model for disposal. This allows to limit, where possible, the quantity of material that is sent directly to landfills for final disposal.

For several years already, the use of machineries to reuse the deconstruction material and manage the waste material within the sites themselves has been a reality. Among these realities the use of mobile screens and shredders is growing. These machines are able to crush and reduce into smaller units, materials that can be reused in the same site for new constructions like foundations or parts of building. This intervention allows to burden economic impact on the company itself, because of the material is reused instead of purchased.

This attention could also be extended to other demolition/construction materials and excavation and processing activities. The aim is to enlarge the consideration also to in other production sectors reducing costs and material request.

NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND NEW PROFESSIONALS

In other to increase and make the whole supply chain more sustainable and collaborative some activities could be useful such as:

  • The possibility to review projects 
  • The creation of a material list as a database

This direction would certainly allow the creation of a new constitution with the aim to promote the interests of the sector and to start a dialogue with authorities and institutions.

New economic activities and new professions such as special advisor and deconstruction companies are needed in order to finalized these projects.

A CHANGE THAT AFFECTS THE WHOLE SUPPLY CHAIN

Data management, digital and implementation of solutions, properly integrated, can bring excellent results. Global improvements in management of the entire supply chain are real business opportunity. This results in an important change that requires targeted and organized interventions along the entire supply chain and which could also be extended to other sectors.

The all territory could benefit, not only concerning social and economic tissue (work, employment and opportunities), but also the environmental system (safeguarding, respect and conservation).

If you are directly interested or if you work on recycling sector, you will find here the ideal product to control the different machines and equipment.

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Lifting sector: connectivity, accessibility and remote management

Lifting sector: connectivity, accessibility and remote management

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Connectivity, accessibility and remote management. The use of data to monitor the status of the machine and for predictive maintenance.
How programs and connections can improve the comfort and operability of machines in a future optic.

THE CONNECTIVITY OF THE TOOLS

In the lifting sector, digitalization is taking on a significant weight and is making very important improvements in the whole sector. This push translates into innovation in the sector which in coming years will be more concrete thanks to the attention of the institutions to digitalization and to the  entire supply chain. In fact, many manufacturers have been able to find a significant and important tax opportunity that is more inclusive and also careful to sustainability. This support also for investments, the digitalization of production processes, the training of adequate skills and the development of new products and processes.

An important and often decisive topic of connectivity in the negotiations for the sales of the machinery and which has also brought concrete technical and comfort advantages for the operators. The last aspect represents a considerable advantage especially to those who work with the machines every day, transforming themselves into an improvement and control of the state of the machine.

In fact, connectivity allows, especially with the data and machine status control and monitoring functions, to bring advantages for all those involved in the supply chain, from the manufacturers to the end users of the machines. An advantage not only in the short term but also as a basis for future developments and improvements thanks to the use of data.

THE USE OF DATA AS A SOURCE OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

The importance of the accessibility to information and its use, represent a system that allows you to keep the functionality, components and health of the vehicle under control. This becomes a useful tool that can guarantee and improve the reliability of the machines during their life cycle and beyond.

Thinking specifically, especially how this can limit breakages and/or problems arising thanks to this system. The conservation and use of data can represent that aspect that if used and enhanced, can be a great help during the “life” of the machine to know the actual state and also for future developments, ensuring the optimization of the choices of the new machinery. Machinery that can therefore be designed with new functions and new systems that can further increase efficiency, effectiveness and performance.

A DEEP AND PREDICTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF MACHINE’S STATE

Knowing the actual conditions of the machine is an aspect that allows you to intervene on the processes and make them effective and become an additional advantage for the manufacturer, especially for optimizing the functions and performance of the same. In fact, the manufacturer can perform an online diagnosis of the state of the machine, intervene upstream or perform any targeted intervention after identified the problem remotely, directly on site. Diagnostic can further intervene as breakage prevention, becoming so an advantage for the manufacturer in the case of component replacement. This is an important advantage as replacements usually occur after a breakdown or once the break has occurred, effectively representing a limitation towards machine downtime.

AN IMPROVEMENT FOR ALL SECTORS

The growing attention and the increase in standard to increase above all safety, have led to a substantial increase in the use of electronics. Electrification, as we have seen, is bringing and making concrete comforts and functions to make the machines more efficient and productive. An incidence that is touching many aspects, in the systems, in the complex communication lines and the control units, with the use of increasingly advanced and increasingly precise sensors. In this direction, the manufacturers began to increase the use of the software and some functions that already existed in the machines, among them the anti-overturning.

In this direction, manufacturer have started to equip the machines with important parameters and functions with advantages not only for workers but also for the environment.

Among the most important:

  • Know exactly where the load and operator are located, in order to improve manoeuvring times in particular.
  • Limit the area where the machine works for a safety speech and to avoid obstacles could endanger the safety of the operators.
  • Use of tools capable of levelling the machine via sensors, especially on uneven ground.
  • Start/stop function that allow to improve the consumption and the duration of the battery autonomy
  • The ability to move the load and lift in a defined trajectory.

AN INCREASINGLY “CONTROLLABLE” FUTURE

All these functions will therefore improve the world and comfort of the operators who work with the machines every day. A direction that will see machines increasingly connected and more intelligently monitored so ad to save time, improve work comfort while preserving costs and environmental impact.

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The digital today

The digital today

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An opportunity for growth and an improvement tool.
How digital is changing and transforming different sectors in a profound way starting from inside.

A CHANGE IN FRONT OF EVERYONE’S EYES.

The advent of digital and electronics applicable to systems and processes, is redesigning the shape of many sectors. A substantial and profound change that has never happened in history and that in facts, is leading to revisit many sectors and methodologies and the creations of new professionals.

The targeted use of data, new materials, programs and structured calculation software, new application technologies and diagnostic tools, are significantly changing many aspects, bringing solutions that until few years ago seemed unthinkable.

Improvements in techniques and processes, combined with the attention and the use of materials in optics to circular economy, are some aspects that will significantly interest all sectors and that different players will have to consider to guide business choices.

These are the sectors that will be most affected in a change that is already underway:

  • In the lifting sector, for example, the great incidence of electronics in systems is increasingly affirming and characterized by versatility and completeness, by the use of complex communication and control units, sensors, with an electronic increasingly sophisticated and advanced. Manufacturers have increasingly begun to use remote controls and parametrize with software, functions that were already present in lifting machines, including anti-overturning, levelling and stabilization of the machine. Lifting machines increasingly enriched with autonomous and/or semi-autonomous functions that will allow to increase safety of the operator, increase production efficiency and energy savings up to comfort. An evolution that as we can see, will bring a significant improvement in several aspects.
  • The use of wireless solutions is also spreading in the agroforestry sector with machines and transport systems to overcome the difficulties of construction sites heavily influenced by slopes and impervious logging routes where is often difficult installing construction sites and accessing them. To overcome this problem, the use of mini-crawlers radio-controlled capable of moving on uneven and rough terrain is growing. A combination of mechanical components that make this machine versatile and suitable for various operations even very complicated (cutting, logging complete etc.). To ensure operator safety, the radio remote control is specially designed and equipped with sensors that immediately stop the work of the machine in case that the operator loses control. Radio controls that can also be used to control machines and winches to hoist and transport trunks and plants from upstream to downstream by a rope and hook systems.
  • Construction sector is entering in a new phase, characterized by a path of reconfiguration and structural transformation with particular attention to materials and the environment. The main drivers that will drive change: the digitalization of products and processes, the automation, integration of home control devices, sustainability, and the use of the prefabricated solutions with optics to enhancement and recovery. All of this, will see a strong synergy and collaboration between the various stakeholder and the use of models to support the processes in the management of the buildings from the project phase, which will make it possible to improve the assessments significantly reducing the high cost of the error.
  • In the world of transport and logistics, digitalization is receiving great attention too, especially in the naval sector. In fact, digital maritime technologies can significantly impact the functioning of administrative, logistic and naval operations. Procedures that can improve and make the processes in the logistics chain more fluid, in supervising and controlling the supply chain, helping in the navigation and maintenance of ships for diagnostics, up to the port coordination and interface operations.
  • In the recycling sector, waste management is undergoing a change in its management systems, dictated above all by the growing attention to the environment through customer relations; partnerships and collaboration with IT companies and start-up that will further enhance product and method innovation. Among the most significant trends, the possibility of controlling waste sorting in machines via devices and mobile applications to guarantee operator safety. Particular attention will have the traceability of waste data which includes RFID technology and filling sensors to detect levels and monitor all reused and recycled materials produced, the development and adoption of digital solutions such as smart bins, smart trucks, sorting and robotics. To this, are added the analytical tools and optimization software that collect and process data for improvements and future implementations.

Sectors are changing very quickly, driven by this transitional movement that digital is making and which will involve all players in the supply chain from managers, designers, builders to end customers.

To continue growing and remain active protagonists in all this, it is important to immediately start a process of renewal of the company’s internal methods with digital propensity, remembering that the component of synergy and cooperation between the various protagonists of the process will be the component important for future decisions. This step will allow to significantly improve company results by helping to reduce the environmental impact.

If you are interested in a solution for your company, here you can find the ideal product for your needs.

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Why you have to use a wireless solution?

Why you have to use a wireless solution?

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To grant safety, comfort and reliability in a context of change where the human component remains the absolute protagonist.

FROM WIRED SOLUTIONS TO WIRELESS SYSTEMS

The use of cable control has accompanied the operation of most of the work with machinery since its inception. These solutions, not really suitable to possible interruptions due to local factors such as walls, floors, doors etc., are very reliable with a greater connection than wireless. However, the wired solution has always represented a significant cost and a physical limit of operability in situations and construction sites that are difficult to reach.

With the use of functional safety standards for the creation of command and control systems, the impulse to use wireless systems has received an important push compared to wired solutions.

This push initially led to a great availability of devices from all over the world on the market, with increasingly competitive costs. Those who had to choose a radio control on the market, however, found themselves confronted with an offer that offered devices very different from each other in price and characteristics, which theoretically offered equivalent characteristics but then in practice they were distant in terms of circuits and component quality.

The lack of an ad hoc regulation thus led to an offer on the market of very different radio controls in terms of components and performance, with repercussions on both the operation of the machine and the intrinsic safety of the device itself.

A LEGISLATION TO ALIGN THE SECTOR

To improve such an unclear situation, the intervention of the major organs responsible for the implementation of technical standards in the electronic, electrical and telecommunications fields has given clarity and improved the sector.

There are several rules which have followed one another and which have led to greater protection for all concerned, thus allowing better and safer products to be “found” on the market. Companies have therefore started to produce devices equipped with buttons and controls capable of meeting the various needs and capable of guaranteeing operator safety.

The spread of wireless radio controls has thus received significant growth in the domestic and industrial fields after channel regulation. From the application sectors such as crane lifting and overhead cranes where the use has developed more immediately, it has subsequently expanded to very different sectors such as cable transport, heavy industry, logistics to touch the agro-forestry sector just to name a few some.

A further facilitated push over time up to the present day has been given above all by the lower cost over the years of the devices, by the ever greater applicability of the devices in the most diverse fields, by the improvement of the weight and the components, by the possibility of creating devices tailored to the different applications / sectors and the improvement of operating comfort (distance-safety).

 

COMFORT, RELIABILITY AND SAFETY

Limits of visibility and maneuver, intrinsic risk of the activity and the difficult to reach the work areas, can represent a significant problem with wich workers have to deal every day both in outdoor construction sites and inside factories and warehouse. In this activities, a human-machine interaction is still a central component ad it is important to find solutions that can improve reliability and safety to preserve the operator’s safety, guaranteeing greater visibility , room for maneuver and operating comfort.

Digitalization and smart solutions: an ongoing transformation

The advent of the digital technology is transforming and affecting many aspects of every day. This change is also profoundly redesigning the architecture and management systems within the markets. Materials, software, connections and technologies, combined with the greater interest in the environment, are transforming and modifying methodologies and timelines by redesigning and establishing profound changes within the various sectors. Innovation, digitalization and use of data, in addition to the attention of the environment matters, today represent a minimum common denominator.

A LOOK TOWARDS THE HORIZON

The digitalization of processes and control, the safety and protection of people and the circular economy are some of the most important and interesting points that various sectors from here onwards, companies will have to take into consideration to improve the performance of machinery and processes in the reference work environment with projection towards the future to respond to the market.

The directions are traced, human will still do his part by combining his skills, his experience and his creativity with the support of the machines in a mix that will thus allow to speed up the processes and further increase safety and performance in the various sectors.

It will therefore be essential to share and involve all the stakeholders in the entire value chain in order to be able to guarantee and best respond to needs in order to minimize the impact both in the environment and in the processes.

A HUMAN-SIZED SOLUTION THAT MARRIES THE CHANGE TAKING PLACE

In a so fast moving context characterized by the advent of digital, the radio control sector has also undergone some changes. An evolution that has received a boost especially in recent years where new technologies have further improved its applicability.

From the first large, bulky devices with few functions characterized at times by poor communication stability, we have moved on to lighter, more comfortable devices with many functions, designed for the numerous applications and for the different needs of the operators.

In this context, the constant at the base has always remained the human component; a component that has characterized Remdevice’s corporate choices since the beginning, aimed in providing products and solutions capable of creating a continuum between man and machine.

Search through the different solutions that we have designed, the ideal one for your sector.

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