Crane designer is a Crane Design , quote automation and design optimization software .It automates your design process and quotation process nearly 100% .It can also help to optimize the designs by helping you reduce weight and improve the performance of the cranes.

1. Crane Designer
Crane manufacturers face tremendous competitive
pressures each day. They innovate continuously to
keep themselves ahead of competition .Crane
Designer is a Design, Optimization and Quoting
automation system which helps crane manufactures
reduce their design and quoting efforts radically
and helps optimize their designs. The following text
describes the benefits of implementing Crane
Designer.
•••• Reduce quoting and design time between 60-
90% :
Implementing Crane Designer results in almost
complete elimination of manual efforts for
submitting quotation for an enquiry and designing
the crane as per the industry specifications along
with Fabrication Drawings, Calculation reports,
detailed BOM, Cost data, 3D Model assemblies and
part models till the last bolt used in the crane. Each
and every detail of the cranes is captured in the
process of development. Advantages of such system
are reduction in time to reply for quotes from hours
or days to few minutes. Crane designer can work on
the company Local Area Network or over the Wide
Area Network, which helps in responding the
enquiries anywhere in the world anytime of the day
(or night) 24*7. Once the order is finalized, the same
quote details can be used as a basis to design the
crane automatically reducing the design time from
days or weeks to few hours.
•••• Design optimization (reduce weight between
10-30%) :
With Crane Designer users are able to optimize on
the designs for weight, reducing the capacity of
motors required and improves the performance of
the designs. One can design for various design
scenarios like lowest cost or best performance
without deviating from the standards. The system
will warn if any parameter falls outside the industry
standard specifications. Crane Designer allows
optimization due to its ability to perform thousands
of design calculations in few minutes for the given
design parameters and delivers the design in
matters of hours. This flexibility to try different
design combinations helps designers to reduce cost
and improve the designs drastically. Crane Designer
can be interfaced with Industry Standard Finite
Element Method (FEM) software and results from
the FEM software can be entered in Crane Designer
to further optimize the designs.
• Improves productivity.
• Increases the bottom line.
• Quick response to the customer
enquiry.
• Improves customer satisfaction.
• Creates company-wide knowledge
base of design.
Benefits of Crane Designer:
• Helps reduce the crane weight.
• Drastic reduction in designing time.
• Create industry standard compliant
designs.
• Error free designs.
• Automates design process.
• Reduces manual intervention in the
The most intelligent crane design software

2. •••• Improve the quality of designs :
Crane Designer will not miss out on accounting single
component in your design. Since Crane Designer
delivers solid models, designs will always have exact
weight of the part being designed .This will help
companies meet their cost targets as the designs they
have quoted will always match with the ones being
designed.
•••• De-skilling the design :
Crane Designer captures all the possible combinations
of your design variations and its user friendly interface
can be customized to suit design input workflows.
Hence, even a designer without the knowledge of CAD
software is able to use it and get the desired output.
This enables companies to de-skill the design process.
Even sales engineers can use the system with little
training and generate quotes reducing the overheads
on Quoting department substantially.
•••• Improving customer satisfaction :
Crane Designer can generate instant quotes any time
anywhere if one has internet connection and device
like laptop, Smartphone to key-in inputs. The front-end
interfaces with the back-end server to generate the
quote instantly. Sales representatives can provide
quotes across the table with all details like cost data,
GA drawings etc. This can go a long way to improve
customer interaction and help build confidence. “
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•••• Reducing errors in the design :
Even after a lot of diligence errors do occur in
designs. Errors result in delays related to rework on
design, correction time, delayed inspection
schedule, missed cost targets, and delayed design
delivery. With Crane Designer the design process is
automated, hence the errors related to drawing
generation, missing parts from BOM, missing details
and views from the drawings and models are
completely eliminated.
•••• Helps create company-wide knowledge-base :
Crane Designer captures design rules, logic,
formulas etc. This is nothing but the knowledge of
the design process accumulated over the years. By
capturing this knowledge it forms a back-bone of
design data for further reuse and modify.
•••• Training new engineers :
Companies spend a lot of time training new
engineers. With Crane Designer new engineers can
be trained easily to use the system reducing the
training overheads and period required for training.
•••• Improved bottom-line :
All the above factors contribute to the increased
profitability for the companies deploying Crane
Designer.