Operations that handle complex loads need solutions built to fit their products, workflow, and space constraints. Simmers’ customized material handling systems are designed to match your lifting requirements, ensuring large, delicate, and non-uniform objects can be safely transferred between loading docks, storage areas, and production lines.
Turnkey Engineering and Design
Unlike standard equipment suppliers, Simmers Crane Design & Services offers lifting devices with specifications based on the size, shape, and weight of your products and materials. Our in-house team combines mechanical, electrical, and structural engineering techniques to create systems that move materials efficiently, without extensive and time-consuming rigging.
Engineered Material Handling Capabilities
We design, manufacture, and install specialized material handling systems that lift and move oversized, irregular, and fragile loads with minimal setup and preparation. Rather than supply off-the-shelf solutions, our engineers create devices and attachments that integrate seamlessly with your existing equipment in order to prevent inventory damage, improve operator safety, and accelerate production in major industries.
Simmers offers a wide range of tools that make it possible to raise, lower, and transport objects securely, regardless of their size, weight, or configuration.
- Spreader Beams
- Coil Hooks
- Pallet Lifters
- Tongs
- Magnetic Lifters
- Vacuum Lifters
- Gripper Manipulators
Built for Safety and Compliance
Every lifting device is rigorously tested to ensure it meets industry standards for safety, performance, and reliability. Each test is conducted by an engineer with extensive experience designing and evaluating lifting devices. Before being deployed in the field, every system we produce is subject to:
- Proof Testing. Measures a device’s performance under intense conditions, often above its specified operational rating, to lower the risk of equipment failure, dropped loads, injuries, and downtime.
- Capacity Verification. Confirms your lifting device is strong enough to handle its rated load without deformation or failure and makes sure all its components match their specified grades and strengths.
- Functional Testing. Examines the device’s mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, magnetic, or vacuum components under normal operation conditions to ensure they can lift and control their expected loads.
Ready to Upgrade Your Material Flow?
Maintaining steady work cycles requires cranes built to address your operational requirements. For facilities dealing with complex, asymmetric, and non-uniform objects, relying on pre-fabricated solutions forces workers to adopt lengthy and demanding rigging procedures to secure their loads, leading to production bottlenecks, damaged products, and lower throughput.
Customization standardizes the rigging process, simplifying day-to-day operations and reducing variability between operators and shifts. Designed around your lifting needs, Simmers material handling systems shorten work cycles, allowing you to move material more efficiently, with less risk of falls, dents, scratches, and deformations.
FAQs
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How do you ensure new material handling equipment integrates with our existing cranes?
Assessing your cranes and facility allows Simmers engineers to create below-the-hook devices that match your standard loads and are compatible with your existing equipment.
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Can you automate our existing manual material handling processes?
Yes, our engineers offer a wide range of automated systems that enable you to transfer objects with greater precision and minimal effort.
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How do I know the custom design will safely handle my specific load?
Our customized devices undergo extensive testing prior to installation, to ensure they’re capable of handling your intended load.
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Who maintains and inspects the custom lifting equipment after installation?
Simmers provides full support for all our products — before, during, and after installation. Our service teams conduct annual and monthly inspections to ensure your cranes and equipment are functioning properly, replacing worn and damaged parts before they cause problems that could disrupt your business.
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Why should I partner with a single-source provider for material handling?
Entrusting your project to a single-source provider like Simmers Crane Design & Services ensures every aspect of your project is managed with the same level of quality, eliminating delays and miscommunications that can occur when design, fabrication, and construction are split between multiple providers.
