How can we improve efficiency, production quality, turnaround, and customer retention while simultaneously maintaining excellent safety conditions and reasonable time off for staff?

As an operations manager or manufacturing engineer, improving the operations at your workplace is your primary task. One massive part of that task is choosing the right equipment. Managers and engineers looking for new lifting equipment have many variables to consider. When it comes to electric hoists, you will be confronted with the critical decision of whether to use an electric chain hoist or an electric wire rope hoist. Both pieces of machinery are excellent for their intended uses and can be helpful in various operations.

Factors to Determine Which Hoist Is Best

There are five considerations that managers and engineers should consider when deciding between electrical wire rope hoists and electric chain hoists. Having thorough information about these factors will help clarify the choice of a suitable hoist. The first and most important variable when choosing a hoist is capacity. Assuring the hoist you select can handle the load capacity is critical. Using a hoist to lift a load heavier than the stated capacity or duty rating is unsafe. Not only is it dangerous for your workforce, but the equipment could also break, and you will incur additional expenses from replacement, repair, breakdown, and maintenance. Often, capacity alone can dictate the use of a chain hoist or wire rope hoist.Additional factors to consider include the following:

• Lifting speed required
• Lifting distance required
• Voltage available
• Environment of operation

Once you thoroughly understand the nature of the lifting you require, it’s time to look at the specifications of the two different lifts.

Electric Wire Rope Hoists – Heavy-Duty Lifting

As the name suggests, electric wire rope hoists run on electricity. These hoists lift heavy items with the help of a drum wrapped with wire rope. Electric write rope hoists can lift the heaviest loads. Benefits of wire rope hoists include that they are

• Suitable for use in applications from general purpose to heavy-duty
• Well-equipped to handle lifts that are more frequent, faster, or longer operating
• Flexible where heavier or longer lifts and repetitive operations are required
• Tidy; wire rope hoists store the wire rope on a grooved drum, eliminating the trailing chain common to electric chain hoists.

Electric Chain Hoists: Powerful Efficiency

Like its wire rope counterpart, a chain hoist is a piece of equipment used to lift and lower heavy loads. Characterized by their heavy-duty chain, these hoists are found in various diverse workspaces such as factories, plants, construction areas, and warehouses. Other attractive features of chain hoists include:

• A compact, lightweight, structure for general use in machine shops, fabrication, maintenance works, and construction areas
• Versatile and adaptable sizes and applications
• They are easily understood and operated
• Chain hoists are excellent replacements for manual lifting on assembly lines or material handling areas
• They provide true vertical lift
• These machines are more forgiving to side pulls than wire rope hoists
• Generally, chain hoists have lower maintenance and repair costs
• These hoists use a link chain, which is suitable for all hoisting jobs

T&M Cranes – The Best Electrical Chain and

Wire Rope Hoists

No matter your material handling needs, T&M Cranes can design, manufacture, install, and service a complete system that meets your requirements. So whether you’re looking for an electric wire rope hoist for continuous heavy-duty lifting or a more versatile and compact electric chain hoist, we can deliver the perfect equipment. Contact us today for more information about our equipment.