Many overhead crane and hoist inspection providers will provide you with a simple checklist of the issues that found with your cranes. A CRANE 1 InSpec TM Inspection program goes much deeper and provides a host of added value to your organization.
CRANE 1 leverages the skills of our highly trained and experienced overhead crane inspectors with the technology of our proprietary InSpec TM software to provide a customized inspection incorporating a full equipment assessment that helps you plan for future repairs and equipment replacement.
InSpec TM
CRANE 1 continues to develop improvements with InSpec, our custom crane inspection, and field automation solution. InSpec provides our Inspection clients with 24 hours or faster turnaround of professional, easy to read periodic and frequent inspection reports of crane and hoisting equipment. We also offer customized reporting solutions for larger accounts requiring specialized reporting.
Instant Scheduling and Remote Dispatch
After agreeing with our customer on a date for the inspection, our coordinator schedules one of our qualified Inspectors and attaches the necessary inspection forms for the equipment and inspection type within the InSpec application for the customer’s site. The Inspector then receives the assignment and required forms for the inspection on their field device. Past inspection reports can be accessed for review of prior conditions.
Accurate Equipment Information
Out of the gate we will be able to inspect cranes, hoist, jibs, below the hook devices as well as slings on InSpec. Our on-site Inspector can update customer information as well as the attributes of the crane or hoist while performing the inspection. They can also add additional crane and hoist units or update units that were removed from service as inactive. We also have the option of using barcodes identification for crane units so that a unit can be pulled up by scanning the bar code label. We can even use a customer’s existing barcode or asset tracking tag currently in use by the customer.
Seeing is believing!
Inspection checkpoints are customized depending on the type of equipment so that Inspector can do a more thorough and accurate job and the report is simpler to read and understand. Any problem areas found can be documented with multiple images, so that the severity and nature of the problem can be conveyed easily.
InSpec assists the CRANE 1 Inspector to provide a superior quality inspection
Our Inspectors have access to standardized dropdowns on many inspection points for common inspection defects or deficiencies. Many of these will reference the applicable OSHA or ANSI code of the violation. Also, many of the inspection points are backed up with help aids and reference materials that our Inspectors can check on site to verify or back up the condition and how the code or standard applies.
Equipment Assessments
InSpec software assists our inspectors to determine and note conditions of your crane or hoist that may deteriorate in the future and require repair planning. Our repair and lifecycle analysis capabilities assist or Inspectors and Field Management team to identify equipment that over time will require repairs that trigger the option to replace the component, upgrade to new technology or replace the equipment item all together.
Repairs fast and easy
InSpec is linked to our centralized estimating software that allows CRANE 1 to turn repair deficiencies found on the inspection report into a repair proposal for your review as soon as one day after we have received parts pricing from the crane vendor or parts supplier. The speed of the finished report as well as the efficiency of our estimating process can shave weeks off the time formerly required to get your crane defects corrected.
Service Reports and Project Management
InSpec is not just for inspections. CRANE 1 has all our field technicians operating from the InSpec application. Our field technicians are dispatched on service calls through the application and document their findings with photos. Our salespeople eventually will use the application to enter requests into estimating and our Project Managers will use the application to better manage installations, start-ups, and testing of new cranes and modernization projects. Our lifter rebuild group uses the application to document the condition of a lifter from teardown to completion of the refurbishment.
CRANE 1 is excited with this leap in technology, better service, and quality that we are brought to the market in early 2018. Give us a call to see how CRANE 1 and InSpec can better service your crane maintenance and inspection needs.