CUSTOMER: MINE OPERATOR
SCENARIO: CUSTOMER TOOK OVER AN OLD MINING OPERATION AND NEEDED TO MOVE PEOPLE AND EQUIPMENT ON THE SAME MINE SHAFT ELEVATOR IN ORDER TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY.
- The shaft was currently 400ft deep, but they needed it as deep as 650ft
- New mine shaft elevator winch needed to lift/lower people and equipment down the 650ft mineshaft
- They did not have enough compressed air to run a pneumatic winch
SOLUTION: CUSTOM MAN RIDER™
- Our engineering team designed a custom man-rider™ FE5i-MR winch with VFD (variable frequency drive)
- Encoder on the motor to read out speed
- Push-button controls on the panel
- With freezing temperatures in the winter, the engineers decided to pursue electric over pneumatic controls
