Six years ago, our plant was faced with the challenges of old equipment: around 60% of our production cranes are over 40 years old, which led to major crane alignment problems, resulting in squeaky wheels. Overall, we used to have a lot of plant-wide crane issues, and we were constantly changing wheels, cables and bearings. When the cranes went down, we stopped moving. Konecranes technicians performed a RailQ runway survey, which showed us graphs of the railway alignment. That’s when we found out that the wheels weren’t the problem. We used to replace crane wheels fairly frequently, but RailQ showed that we needed to replace the crane rail in several bays and adjust the elevation. Since then, we haven’t needed to replace any wheels. As long as annual inspections continu

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