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Crane Uprate & Modernization Services

PAR Systems offers DC control uprates and upgrades for any type of drive your crane may have. Modernize your crane for improved performance and long-term cost-savings.

PAR Systems has extensive experience in uprating and upgrading crane’s DC drives to modern controls. This method of modernizing your crane has many benefits including improving overall performance, lowering necessary crane maintenance and operational costs, and many more.

DC Control Upgrades for Any Type of Drive and Multiple Crane Types/Applications

  • Portal
  • Lumber
  • Steel
  • Shipyard
  • Pulp/Paper
  • Nuclear
  • Aerospace
  • Gas Turbine
  • Hydro-electric
  • Mining
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Crane lifting stainless steel coil and additional stainless steel coils.

Meet Growing Production Demands

Overhead cranes in industry are the critical material handling systems used by businesses to manufacture, position, locate, and/or transport their products within their facilities. As businesses grow, so do their production demands and their equipment availability and reliably needs. This same demand can apply to the material handling capabilities of their in-house overhead electric cranes.

Knowing When it’s Time to Upgrade

Our crane upgrades help you work smarter, not harder.

Aging overhead cranes built with dated DC control drive technologies may not be able to meet these increasing business performance requirements. Whether this is a result of excessive equipment repair down time, maintenance down time, or simply from the crane’s own operational performance inefficiencies, these are often the primary drivers when considering whether it is time to modernize your crane’s obsolescent DC controls. While the vast majority of new cranes manufactured today utilize AC drive technology, significant reasons still exist to modernize your crane with today’s state-of-the-art DC drive controls.

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The Benefits of Modernizing your Crane’s Drives

  • Cost-savings of as much as 6x what a full AC controls conversion would cost
  • Option to keep your existing crane control system components (vs. a replacement of these with a controls conversion upgrade to AC)
  • Significantly less engineering and installation labor costs needed
  • Time and ease of install
  • Increased performance
  • Availability & reliability
  • Immediate availability of spares
  • On-call tech drive support and maintenance personnel
  • Will fit within the framework and enclosure of your existing system
  • Conserves energy and reduces power costs

"Our capabilities to provide highly customized cranes is unique to the industry as our teams were built specifically to design and manufacture specialty, nuclear rated cranes."

Rob O.

Commercial Category Leader, Nuclear

Service & support that goes above & beyond

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