Cranes Technology Committee Meeting

5 May 2025 • Music City Center, Room 101E • Nashville, TN, US

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  1. Chair’s opening remarks          <Noon>  
  2. Appoint minute-taker
  3. Antitrust guidelines
  4. Membership and attendance
  5. Review minutes of previous meeting
  6. AIST Staff Announcements
  7. Main agenda items
    • Review Cranes TC Mission Statement
      • To develop specifications for safe and dependable cranes that can be properly designed, installed and maintained; and to promote new technologies and communicate more efficient operational and maintenance practices through networking for the continuous improvement of heavy industrial overhead cranes.
  • Develop committee objectives for next year
    • Meeting Locations
    • Technical Topic to be discussed and possible presenters
  • Cranes Symposiums
    • 2025 – Indianapolis
      • Review
  • 2026
    • Date
    • Location
  • Elect New Officers
    • Chair – Steve Lubeck
    • Vice Chair – Possible options from CMC that need to be approached first / Dave Burkhart 
    • Young Professional Chair – Roland Najbar
    • Decarb Chair – Tad Dunville
    • Digital Transformation Subcommittee – Ed La Bruna 
    • Symposium Chair – Tom Berringer
  • Present Chair Plaque to Russ Walters
  1. Discussion items
  • Technical Report Status per minutes of last meeting:
  • TR 1, 1A - D/C, A/C motors
    • The decision was to achieve this with no changes planned.
  • TR 4 – Alloy Sling Chains
    • The decision was to achieve this with no changes planned.   
  • TR 6 – Spec. for EOH Cranes 
    • Report of 18 February meeting
  1. Good meeting yesterday, mainly with regard to electrical session
  2. Structural/Mechanical sections still need to be worked on
  3. A number of additions are suggested
    • Power Limit Switches was given as an example
  4. Another meeting this month to go over all the changes that need to be made
  5. Full meeting at AISTech
  • TR 7 – Ladle Hooks
    • Last printed in 2020 and available, no further action.
  • TR 8 – Insulated Conductors for Mill Motors
    • Report of 18 February meeting
    • Zoom meeting last Friday, was supposed to have a meeting in person here
    • Continue to set up a monthly 1 hour meeting to take care of this, bit at a time
  • TR 11 – Mill Motor Brakes
    • Report of 18 February meeting
    • Good working group yesterday
    • Re-lining and edits complete
    • Finishing final document to send Ken
  • TR 13 – Guide for the Design and Construction of Mill Buildings
    • Report of online meetings
    • No new activity this meeting
    • Zoom call happened last week
    • Debates on standards for Crane Rail Survey
      • Specs for Crane Rail when first installed
      • Specs for previous installations
    • Load testing against existing standards at time of installation
    • Additional meetings needed still
  • Maint, Insp and Repair Guide 
    • Last printed in 2017 and available
    • No further action required at this time.
  • Crane Safety and Training Technical Report
    • Report of 18 February meeting
    • We went through a huge number of topics
    • Outlines for certain topics that should be turned into a list of guidelines
    • Direction for the report/guidelines decided
    • Next meeting at AISTech 2025
    • Reference Documents uploaded for the topics and comments made yesterday
    • Keeping in mind that it’s not a procedure, there is an emphasis on making it easy to digest, and how much reference documentation needs to be inserted in the end result
  1. Next meeting
  • 9 June 2025
  • Indianapolis, IN
  1. Chair conclusion
  2. Adjourn            <1:30pm>