Considering a lifting industry, employees working in it have to undergo various lifting, rigging and hoisting processes using different industrial equipment. Maintaining the industrial equipment is equally important as using them properly. Wire ropes are one of the widely used equipment in the lifting industry. They have to undergo rigorous loads under extreme harsh conditions. So timely inspection and preventive maintenance is must to ensure a long service life of wire ropes. Industrial equipment has predefined set of limit beyond which it can’t tolerate the load. Always make sure to use the load within predefined limits.

Handling the wire ropes

• Handling cables is a tricky task as contact can cause damage which is invisible to the naked eye. One must avoid contact between wire and metal through the use of lift items
• Wire ropes must be stored indoor in dry, cold and clean areas. Operator should ensure the wire rope is kept elevated using blocks or any such item. Wire ropes should be protected against dirt, moisture and corrosion in case of outdoor storage.
• The ideal way to unwind steel wire ropes involves the use of an unreeling stand for a reel and turntable for coil.

How to know your wire rope needs replacement?

Often there comes a time when you keep on fixing your equipment but it really needs to be changed. Well! It happens with most of us, we try to fix our equipment (here wire rope and steel wire rope) but it badly needs to be changed. Below given are some of the parameters based on which you would know the time has come to change it.

• Variations in diameter
• Broken wire
• Deformed Strands
• Changes in normal appearance

Apart from these parameters you can keep a check on regular basis and find insights related to the status of the wire ropes. Inspection should always be done by trained and qualified professional.

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