PROGRAMME FOR PROVIDING MINING EQUIPMENT ATTACHMENTS.
In 2011, KRANEKS developed and introduced a programme for providing mining equipment attachments.
The programme is aimed at businesses operating heavy mining excavators with buckets of 4 - 25 cubic metre capacity from overseas manufacturers.
The purpose of the programme is import substitution (localizing production of heavy equipment buckets in Russia).
This results in shorter delivery times and more customer friendly prices than with ordering abroad.
KRANEKS’S Engineering Centre designs attachments for overseas equipment to customer assignment, taking into account specific features of operation in Russian conditions.
The main goal of this Programme is to localize production of excavator attachments in Russia, giving users an opportunity to acquire quality equipment within a shorter period and at more reasonable prices than with ordering abroad.
Within the framework of this programme, KRANEKS Machinery Group’s production division, together with its process engineers have worked on expanding their bucket manufacturing facility and corresponding preparation for production. Special assembly jigs and welding positioners have been installed at welding stations, and ultrasonic weld inspection introduced.
SSH-27- PROJECT: BASIC MACHINE FOR MOUNTING DRILLING RIGSИ
In 2016. KRANEKS Machinery Group built a prototype basic machine (self-propelled crawler undercarriage) intended for mounting a drilling rig.
The machine is based on the most sought after of KRANEKS excavators, the EK 270LC. Its design has been thoroughly modernized for the required integration with drilling rigs.
The basic machine is intended to mount a drilling rig with a kelly-bar and casing drilling oscillator.
The drilling rig with such specifications was developed and built by engineers from GEOMASH. It is intended for drilling wells, and foundation work at industrial construction and civil engineering sites.
The drilling rig’s design facilitates the following:
- Drilling in unstable, waterlogged soils under the protection of casing, immersed and retrieved using a rotary head, or a casing oscillator for work in difficult geological conditions;
- Building retaining walls by erecting a row of secant piles.
EK 270SL AND EK 400SL WITH SUPER LONG ATTACHMENTS
In 2012, KRANEKS developed modernized versions of its EK 270LC and EK 400 excavators equipped with super long attachments (SLA), in response to accumulated operating experience and customer wishes.
Prior to modernization, SLAs were mounted on standard excavators, the design of which is optimized for standard size attachments.
Following modernization the machine has become a model in its own right, with the SL (Super Long) designation – EK 270SL and EK 400SL, optimally designed for super long attachments, while retaining the possibility of mounting standard ends.
EK 270SL and EK 400SL machines are distinguished from standard excavators by reinforced metal structures able to withstand the increased loads resulting from work with super long attachments.
EK 270SL and EK 400SL excavators normally mount three types of buckets – rectangular, grading and ditching, with up to 18 m digging radius and 15 m digging depth.
EK 270SL and EK 400SL excavators have been developed for construction and land improvement jobs requiring long reach bucket positioning – removing sediment from river and reservoir beds, levelling road slopes for road building.
Judging by the response of users, EK 270SL and EK 400SL excavators fully meet their requirements, since their specifications match those of similar class foreign models available on the Russian and CIS markets, while operating and maintenance costs are significantly lower.
ELECTRONIC KRANEKS (E-KRANEKS)
Electronic KRANEKS. In 2012, our Machinery Group’s IT division completed the introduction of a new version of our Corporate Information System’s Production Planning Module.
The Production Planning Module was developed by our Group’s programmers as an extension of IC У ПП (manufacturing enterprise management). It enables PCs to be used in all KRANEKS Group’s production divisions, including its metal cutting and blanking, forging and press, foundry, machining, welding and assembly operations.
Following introduction of the new Production Planning Module, all production staff and managers can automatically receive information on actual fulfilment of planned targets in any period of time relating to each of the 17 000 parts included in the information system’s database.
With regard to monthly production plans, this means that production department staff may give exact answers regarding each part or assembly being produced:
- Planned quantity,
- Actually produced quantity,
- Location of unfinished parts and assemblies
- Planned and actual current workplace capacity (in working hours) ,
- Rubles earned by each employee at the time of the report
- etcetera
The system presents information both in physical terms and working hours.
Working hour reports within a set planning timeframe of 12 months enable the Personnel Management Department, jointly with the relevant production division’s management to plan availability of the required workforce for the planned volume of production in advance.
The E-KRANEKS CORPORATE INFORMATION SYSTEM embraces all business activities – from production to sales and after-sales warranty servicing, includes all divisions and workplaces without exception (workers and engineering staff) and enables all 16 legal entities comprising the Company to function within a unified information environment.
KRANEKS COMPANY AND SWEDISH FIRM SSAB CONTINUE THEIR COLLABORATION
In the absence of similar class Russian products, KRANEKS Company has for more than 15 years been using HARDOX and WELDOX in the manufacture of buckets and other attachments.
On 6 March 2014, KRANEKS and SSAB signed an agreement for a new term regarding use of the HARDOX IN MY BODY trademark on corresponding KRANEKS products.
HARDOX steel possesses unique properties for excavator bucket application: exceptional wear resistance combined with hardness and strength, also good weldability.
Buckets featuring SSAB steel have a significantly longer service life than products made from other steel and retain their shape, thus simplifying replacement of worn parts.
All KRANEKS products made with HARDOX steel have 8-digit identification markings confirming the use of HARDOX steel in their manufacture.
40-TON BASIC MACHINE FOR IMPACT AND DRILLING EQUIPMENT
KRANEKS and ROPAT began their collaboration in 2007, though it reached a new level only in 2013.
Using an EK 400 excavator produced by KRANEKS Group as the basic machine has resulted in record traction characteristics among impact devices, good manoeuvrability and high travel speed.
This basic machine fully meets modern pile driving equipment requirements regarding weight and size data, quality and reliability.
Combining the specifications of our 40-ton machine with one of the world’s most efficient pile hammers (РОПАТ МГ5ш) has created a versatile mobile system for pile driving work in the most diverse conditions.
This example confirms the ability of the Russian engineering industry to fully design and manufacture competitive equipment incorporating units produced in-house and without stipulations regarding quality-price ratio.
KRANEKS Machinery Group’s Engineering Centre is currently fulfilling yet another project of this kind, namely, developing a new versatile basic machine for special equipment with variable track gauge undercarriage - the EK 400VT.
In addition to ROPAT impact equipment, the EK 400 VT can serve as a basic machine for any other special equipment requiring hydraulic drive and a 40-ton crawler undercarriage.
If requested, variable gauge crawlers may be mounted on regular production KRANEKS excavators (EK 400, EK 450FS and EK 400SL).
Using variable track gauge permits observance of shipping clearances, and thus more convenient transportation, while stability of excavators and special equipment is increased with tracks in their working position.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN KRANEKS AND NORWEGIAN COMPANY KVX
An agreement on collaboration has been executed in 2017 between Norwegian company KVX LLC and KRANEKS Machinery Group, giving KRANEKS OEM status in the production of attachments featuring GET systems (earthmoving and cutting tools and components) manufactured by KVX, Norway.
The OEM status envisages purchase of components at prices lower than those for spare parts, namely, at prices for components used in production.
KVX, a subsidiary of KOMATSU Group, is one of the leading suppliers of cutting tools for earthmoving equipment on the world market.
The KVX system was developed over a period of more than 130 years and continues its technical development in close collaboration with mining companies and mines and quarries located worldwide.
The KVX system today offers:
- Cutting edges.
- Double ended self-sharpening bucket teeth and detachable blades.
- Lip and wing shrouds.
- Bucket and cutting edge heels.
Advantages of GET systems from KVX
- Absence of problems connected with welding processes.
- Reduces overall thickness of cutting edge systems, resulting in deeper bucket penetration in soil and significantly higher labour efficiency.
- Service requirements are minimal, thus reducing downtime and labour costs.