Modernisation Of Crane Scales

Since 1 January 2012, EN ISO 13849 has been the only standard in force for control functions of relevance to safety. All new cranes and major modernisation projects have had to be designed in line with this standard since this date. Put simply, this standard stipulates that through an appropriate choice of hardware and software, overload protection in cranes must be designed such that the failure of one component in the measuring chain does not result in subsequent overload events not being detected or reported.

Reliable overload control and unbalance load detection that is state-of-the-art