Crane Conditioning Monitoring   3

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.