A new look at the training of engineering personnel in the field of lifting and transport engineering

Abstract

The issue of reviving the school of design of lifting equipment is being resolved, the main trends in the development of which are:

- creation of qualitatively new types of lifting and transport machines and mechanisms, as well as extensive modernization of existing machines and installations to ensure mechanization and automation of loading and unloading, transport and storage operations in all areas of transport construction;

- increase in the carrying capacity and reliability of machines with a simultaneous significant reduction in their metal intensity due to the use of new kinematic schemes, more advanced calculation methods, the use of rational lightweight profiles of rolled products, new materials (alloy steels, light alloys and plastics), as well as advanced engineering technology (new methods of heat treatment, application of strengthening coatings, etc.);

- increase in the productivity of equipment due to the use of wide regulation of the speed of mechanisms, automatic, semi-automatic and remote-control using microprocessor and computer technology, both for controlling the operation of machines and for calculations and design;

- creation of special gripping and other lifting units, as well as ensuring comfortable working conditions for the crane operator.

To ensure these indicators, it is necessary to train specialists in the field of designing competitive lifting machines.