Crane Conditioning Monitoring

The Strategic Systems Programs issued a sole source contract to

Imes, Inc. for the Advanced Technical Support of critical production and

processing cranes. The principal elements of this procurement are

operation, maintenance, grooming of installed Crane Condition Monitoring

(CCM) system; interpretation and analysis of data acquired by site-specific

customized CCM; performing risk analysis of evaluated cranes; and

recommending, designing, and performing specific, detailed crane

investigations based on crane condition and customer approval. These

elements require intimate knowledge of the installed CCM system to

include complete understanding of the system architecture,

characterization of the components of the system, and necessary offsets

and balance of components to achieve accurate system performance.

Additionally, and more particularly, these principal elements require (1)

demonstrated capability of acoustic emission (AE) structural analysis of the

crane structural components which is required for detailed analyses

resulting from CCM indications and (2) detailed, practiced expertise in risk

analysis as required in the SSP SWS environment. AE extant

characterization of cranes is the baseline for these analyses. Imes, Inc. is

the only business offering these services with existing application to the

current contract requirement.