Cantilever Jib Crane

Project summary & impacts

Info

Designed, analyzed, procured and installed a 1-ton wall-mounted cantilever jib crane to eliminate a manual heavy-lifting hazard on the personnel elevator/stairs — including column steel-modification FEA and supporting hand calculations.

~$4,500 Component costs

1 Ton Rated capacity

FEA + PM Analysis & communication

Adding to old industrial buildings.

Ideas and content drawn from real meetings with the shaft crew and tradespeople, then turned into a designed, analyzed and installed solution.

Initial proposition

Final iteration

How I did the project

Software & skills

Software

Autodesk InventorModeled the crane and its column mounting, and ran supporting FEA.
ExcelStructural sizing sheet driven by the hand-calculation variables.
AutoCADAccessed the production-headframe seed model to design the mount in context.
NavisworksReviewed and coordinated the crane against the federated model.

Technical & soft skills

Structural Analysis
Finite Element Analysis
Project Management
Procurement
Mechanical Engineering Drafting

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Adding to old industrial buildings.

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