Weihua provides comprehensive intelligent material handling solutions for different scenarios in the steel industry (such as steel coils, slabs, wire rods, rebar, and scrap steel). Its independently developed warehouse management system works in close coordination with various production processes, enabling data exchange and efficient operation. This allows production workshops to better control the work pace and significantly improve operational efficiency.

Product Features

• The AICrane software system draws the upper computer interface based on the actual layout of the storage area, restoring the on-site situation to the greatest extent.
• Real-time display of material status in storage locations, inventory management, stock level warning, and report statistics.
• Communicates with the PLC systems of ground control systems such as rollers or walking beams to achieve interlocking control.
• Optimizes crane dispatching based on intelligent algorithms combined with production plans. Automatically avoids danger zones, monitors positions in real time, and provides intelligent anti-collision for multiple cranes.
• Automatically allocates lifting storage locations according to process requirements and stacking principles, optimizes paths, reduces reverse handling, improves production efficiency, and reduces crane load.

Application Scenarios

Throughout the entire steel production process, this intelligent crane proves highly useful:

• Raw Material & Finished Product Warehouses: Intelligently handles and stacks large steel coils, optimizing storage space.
• Steelmaking & Continuous Casting Workshops: Precisely transports hot metal ladles and molten steel ladles, or participates in the automatic withdrawal and handling of continuous casting slabs.
• Scrap Steel Yards: Utilizes intelligent identification and grabbing systems for efficient sorting, grabbing, and loading of scrap steel materials into charging boxes.
• Equipment Installation & Maintenance: Enables high-precision and safe assembly operations during the maintenance of heavy equipment such as large rollers and mill housings.

Use Cases

Product Features

• Graphical real-time display of operation information, including yard crane distribution, truck queue, instruction queue, container distribution information by bay, target position, OCR status, and ASC information;
• Graphical real-time display of RMG information, including trolley position and speed, hoist position and speed, spreader travel path, twist lock status, and spreader dimensions;
• Real-time display of operation steps, prompting the next work status;
• Real-time display of the status of each subsystem in the remote control system;
• Data interaction with identification systems, vehicle guidance signs, and other equipment to achieve interlocking control.
• Optimizes crane dispatching based on intelligent algorithms combined with the TOS system logistics management plan.

Application Scenarios

Weihua intelligent port cranes have been widely used in various domestic and international port terminals and major engineering projects:

• Sea Port Container Hub Terminals: Such as supporting ports for Shanghai Yangshan Port and Ningbo Zhoushan Port, used for loading/unloading large container ships and efficient yard transfer.
• Inland River Ports & Multi-Purpose Terminals: Suitable for ports along the Yangtze River and inland river basins, handling containers, bulk cargo, and general cargo.
• Large-Scale Port-Adjacent Industrial Projects: Serves dedicated terminals of large enterprises like petrochemical and shipbuilding industries, such as the Zhejiang Petrochemical Project’s automated quayside container cranes.
• “Belt and Road” & Overseas Ports: Products have been exported to countries like Indonesia, supporting port infrastructure construction in countries along the “Belt and Road”.
• Fully Automated, Unmanned Terminals: Core equipment for building fully intelligent, unmanned container terminals such as Jiangsu Tongzhou Bay Lvsi Port.

Weihua’s AICrane system proposes a series of solutions to address difficulties in unmanned crane application scenarios in the cement industry, such as material chute blockage, material accumulation, and poor real-time accuracy of height recognition. It continuously optimizes multi-mechanism联动 to improve operational efficiency and precise control of four-rope grabs to enhance the filling rate, ensuring the high-intensity production rhythm requirements of cement manufacturing.

Product Features

• The system has four operation modes: fully automatic, semi-automatic, remote manual, and on-site manual. Under normal working conditions, it operates in fully automatic mode. Shift tasks (various batching amounts required during the shift period) are entered into the remote control center (manually or via the factory MES system), and the crane automatically completes the tasks.
• Operational tasks are divided into: feeding, material transfer, and leveling the stockpile. The system automatically assigns the crane to perform corresponding operations based on production task conditions.
• Features a semi-automatic function: manually set the grabbing point (area) and discharge point (area) along with the number of cycles, and initiate the dispatch task with one click.
• The interface represents material height through color depth based on backend data, updating height data in real-time via laser scanning, providing a clear overview of inventory status.

Application Scenarios

This solution is specifically designed to serve industrial fields requiring the handling of large volumes of bulk materials:

• Core Application: Cement & Building Materials Industry
  • Raw Material Preparation: Stacking and reclaiming of raw materials such as limestone, clay, and sandstone.
  • Clinker Calcination: Handling and cooling of raw meal fed into the kiln and clinker discharged from the kiln.
  • Cement Grinding & Dispatch: Warehousing, re-warehousing, and truck loading of finished cement, mineral powder, and other materials.
• Extended Application Fields
  • Thermal Power Generation: Used for stacking and reclaiming coal in coal yards, and ash handling.
  • Metallurgy & Mining: Transfer of raw materials such as ore, concentrate powder, and coke.
  • Port Logistics: Ship loading/unloading and yard operations for bulk grain, fertilizer, ore, and other goods.

Use Cases

Weihua intelligent waste treatment crane, often referred to as a waste grab bridge crane or fully automatic waste crane, is intelligent lifting equipment specifically designed for harsh working conditions such as waste-to-energy plants. Located above the waste storage pit, it undertakes tasks such as feeding, handling, mixing, grabbing, and weighing waste, making it core equipment for ensuring the efficient and stable operation of waste incineration lines.

Product Features

• Automatically identifies the highest point of stacked waste in each area, automatically grabs waste from the highest point, and automatically discharges material at the lowest point in the corresponding area;
• Automatically performs material transfer, mixing, and feeding, and automatically counts the amount of material fed and actually incinerated at any time.
• Real-time monitoring of waste crane operating status, with functions for archiving operational information and querying historical data;
• Task preview function, allowing viewing of basic task data such as task status, starting coordinates, target coordinates, and distance.

Application Scenarios

This product is mainly used in the following fields, with potential for expansion into other industries:

Use Cases

Product Features

Combining the needs of the brewing industry with Weihua’s general technologies, the advantages of this type of intelligent brewing crane are mainly reflected in:

• Efficient and Clean Operation: Replaces traditional manual labor with a large single-load capacity. The automatic cleaning device enables quick and thorough cleaning of spent grain pits, reducing residue and labor costs.
• High-Precision and Intelligent Operation: Utilizes Weihua’s high-speed, high-precision distributed control system, offering high operational speed and positioning accuracy (control精度可达 millimeter level). It uses AI vision to identify materials, enabling automatic grabbing and handling.
• Safe and Reliable: Equipped with a dual anti-sway system (mechanical and electronic control) to ensure smooth lifting operations. Additionally, its digital management platform enables remote monitoring and fault warning for the equipment, effectively preventing safety incidents.
• Strong Adaptability and Space Saving: The low headroom design is particularly suitable for brewing workshops with limited plant height. Furthermore, the “New Chinese Style” design results in low deadweight and low wheel load, reducing requirements for the plant structure.

Application Scenarios

This type of crane is specialized equipment for the brewing (liquor, rice wine, etc.) production industry.
It is mainly used in the following processes during brewing production:

• Removal and cleaning of spent grain from pits: Automates the digging, cleaning, and transfer of spent grain from fermentation pits.
• Handling of brewing raw materials: Transports raw materials such as grain and starter cultures.
• Material transfer and warehousing: Automates the transfer and stacking of semi-finished or finished products between brewing workshops and storage areas.