• Danny Focquaert Engineering
  • DFE bvba
  • Crane engineering
  • Drive and control engineering
  • Drive and control project management
  • Hydraulic engineering
  • Calculations for electric and hydraulic drives
  • Cable calculations – grid design
  • Cable management concept for your projects

50t cape size grab ship unloader / semi auto grab ship unloader

My engineering job in this project

  • technical specification for electric, drive & control & software
  • drive calculations review
  • cable calculations and grid calculations and verifications
  • schematic design & verifications
  • software functional description
  • survey & inspection on manufacturing base
  • site management during installation, cabling pre commissioning and final commissioning
  • network testing & I/O testing
  • training of operators and technical staff
  • calculation for the 6kV MV supply
  • functional safety engineering and validation
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  • Danny Focquaert Engineering
  • DFE bvba
  • Crane engineering
  • Drive and control engineering
  • Drive and control project management
  • Hydraulic engineering
  • Calculations for electric and hydraulic drives
  • Cable calculations – grid design
  • Cable management concept for your projects

20t river barge grab ship unloader / semi auto grab ship unloader

My engineering job in this project

  • technical specification for electric, drive & control & software
  • drive calculations review
  • cable calculations and grid calculations and verifications
  • schematic design & verifications
  • software functional description
  • survey & inspection on manufacturing base
  • site management during installation, cabling pre commissioning and final commissioning
  • training of operators and technical staff
  • calculation for the 6kV MV supply
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  • Danny Focquaert Engineering
  • DFE bvba
  • Crane engineering
  • Drive and control engineering
  • Drive and control project management
  • Hydraulic engineering
  • Calculations for electric and hydraulic drives
  • Cable calculations – grid design
  • Cable management concept for your projects

DFE BVBA Danny Focquaert, Drive and control project management

A8 – 40t post panamax / semi auto GRAB SHIP UNLOADER

My engineering job in this project

  • technical specification for electric, drive & control
  • technical assistance for project procurement at ZPMC
  • follow up of ABB electric engineering & design
  • calculation of the 6kV supply – cable calculation & contact voltage calc
  • follow up during construction and commissioning
  • job site commissioning management
  • training of operators and technical staff

LK311N – 145t x 32m / semi auto SLAB PILE OVERHEAD TRAVELING CRANE

my engineering jobs in this project

  • technical specification for electric, drive & control
  • follow up of electric engineering & design
  • calculation of the 6kV supply – cable calculation & contact voltage calc
  • math model for the slab tong
  • software functional concept for automatic horizontal closing
  • follow up during construction, black assembly and pre commissioning
  • follow up during construction and commissioning
  • Job site commissioning management
  • training of operators and technical staff

Puma – 55t x 38m / Equilibrated Crane On Tri Track Crawler For Dam Building

my engineering jobs in this project

  • Crawler hydraulic
  • Electric engineering for the crawler electric
  • Engineering assistance of the hydraulic on the crawler
  • Engineering on the diesel engine revamp and electric revamp
  • Spare parts datasheets for hydraulic components
  • Site commissioning on the crane and the hydraulic installation of the block clamp
  • Training of operators and technical staff

LK144 – 170t / 6.3t Vessel Handling Overhead Traveling Crane in steel degasser

My engineering jobs in this project

  • Writing the technical specification for electric, drive and control
  • System & concept design for anti sway and semi auto traveling
  • System & concept design for auto centering vessel lifting
  • System & concept design for the dual remote control
  • project management and follow up during engineering, construction and factory acceptance and final commissioning
  • operator training

LK144 – 170t / 6.3t Vessel Handling Overhead Traveling Crane in steel degasser

My engineering jobs in this project

  • Writing the technical specification for electric, drive and control
  • System & concept design for anti sway and semi auto traveling
  • System & concept design for auto centering vessel lifting
  • System & concept design for the dual remote control
  • project management and follow up during engineering, construction and factory acceptance and final commissioning
  • operator training

LK144 – 170t / 6.3t Vessel Handling Overhead Traveling Crane in steel degasser

My engineering jobs in this project

  • Writing the technical specification for electric, drive and control
  • System & concept design for anti sway and semi auto traveling
  • System & concept design for auto centering vessel lifting
  • System & concept design for the dual remote control
  • project management and follow up during engineering, construction and factory acceptance and final commissioning
  • operator training

LK355 – 135t / electric Revamp automatic Slab Pile Overhead Traveling Crane

My engineering jobs in this project

  • System & concept design for anti sway systems of different brands
  • Basic design for electric revamp
  • Writing technical specification for electric drive & control
  • Writing the revamp schedules
  • Project survey during engineering, revamp and commissioning
  • Development of the math model for the automated mechanical (multiple) slab tong control ( horizontal open & close)

CINUSEK1 – 18t x 30.8m equilibrated crane for river barge unloading

my engineering jobs for this project

  • Calculation detailed design of the inverted cylinder concept for this equilibrated crane
  • Optimisation of the cilinder pin – pin positions
  • Detailed design of the full Hydraulic drive design
  • Technical specifications for the drive components
  • Software and control algorithms design
  • Piping routing design
  • Hydraulic + electric + software commissioning
  • Training of operators and technical staff

Commissioning – Water Treathment plant – sterilizing

My engineering jobs in this project

  • I/O tests & checks
  • Setting up to service for the steam control equipment and all controls and sensors
  • follow up during software implementation

Calculation & math solver concepts

Setting up solver algorithms finding optimum cylinder pin pin position

OCS Overload Control System for equilibrated cranes

Engineering:

Target was the the development of an overload installation able to survive hars environment from scrap handling cranes. An overload installation prevents overstress. The challenge was to take out the load cell and the cables, the solution has been indirect measurement of the crane parameters and calculating the actual load level.

  • Concept for hardware and software
  • Simulation programs
  • Mathematic algorithms for real time signal processing

Data logging on machines and cranes Using PC

My engineering jobs for this project

  • Real time data logging by PC
  • Online or offline logging concepts
  • Realtime display in different datasets for diagnostic trouble shooting
  • Export of logged data for calculation on data sets
  • Online or offline calculation on logged data
  • Diagnostic support for measured data & reporting together with your specialists

Machine house design – sound attenuated hydraulic powerpack

Equilibrated Crane 12t x 26m High Portal On Rail

My engineering jobs in this project

  • Detailed design from the power pack – sound attenuated housing and hydrotank
  • Installation layout
  • Hydrotank design

ALZEK6 – 55t x 43m slab handling Equilibrated Crane on gantry

My engineering jobs for this project

  • Detailed design & calculations for the electric & hydraulic installation including piping
  • Drive calculations for the gantry drive train
  • Functional analysis & design from all software algorithms including all simulation
  • Project follow for hydraulic piping & electric cable routing and installation
  • Project follow up for design of the hydraulic power pack
  • Project management for hydraulic, electric and software
  • Full project commissioning & I/O tests & start up
  • Operator training and service staff training

Stainless steel telescpoic ship loader for fertilizer

My engineering jobs in this project

  • Designing cable routings & assisting engineering updates of mechanical structures
  • BOM for all cable routings and fixation hardware
  • Cable length calculation – cable database & routing database
  • Project follow up during pre installation and machine cabling

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