We bring our long history of design experience and automated computer analysis to quickly and efficiently review the proposed designs of equipment suppliers and show you definitively where, how and why a submitted design does or does not meet your requirements.  If asked, we can also suggest cost effective modifications to help the supplier comply.

As professional engineers, our first love is original design for an owner or OEM client.  From past years we have competent experience in that subject.  However, the crane industry has matured to the level where OEM's rarely need design assistance and buyers are not interested in tendering a pre‑engineered crane.

A complete OEM design of a new custom crane consists of several hundred drawings and several thousand pages of computer output.  Mistakes, omissions, and internal conflicts are inevitable no matter how competent the OEM's engineers are.  Most mistakes are of no consequence or are caught later during construction; but serious mistakes do occur that lead to structural failures, premature failure of mechanical components, and electrical malfunctions.

A competent peer review is statistically, without question, the most effective and most economical way to minimize serious engineering mistakes.

An entirely different issue is dishonest design to gain a competitive advantage when negotiating a tender.  Few buyers have the expertise to catch deliberate under‑design.  Again, a competent peer review is the best and perhaps the only way for a Buyer to counter dishonest design.

Simply looking for arithmetic mistakes in the OEM's calculations is not a competent peer review.  A competent peer review should start with looking at the individual construction drawings and then, as much as practical, create independent calculations and independent reality checks to find deficiencies.  These are the engineering deficiencies that matter most because, if not caught, they may become final product deficiencies.