Jaap Wijsman, Senior Technical Inspector at Allseas, shared his experience regarding DROMEC:
“DROMEC responds promptly and actively engages in problem-solving when presented with a question, leveraging their knowledge and extensive experience.
Moreover, they adopt a flexible and customer-oriented approach when translating ideas into a high-quality product, harnessing the power of simplicity. As a customer, you have ample freedom to incorporate your ideas into the design.
One of the remarkable aspects of Dromec is that they have everything in-house, including the entire control system. In addition to precise design, they also strictly adhere to the agreed-upon delivery date, followed by a comprehensive Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) in the presence of Allseas.
Lastly, they provide highly detailed documentation, allowing us as customer to look back on this process with satisfaction.”
DROMEC winches is a leader in the field of winches. With a strong team of engineers, DROMEC winches develops various customerspecific projects per week. A committed family business that can realize a system from application to end product in a short period of time. In this context, DROMEC winches works together with highquality partners.
In the field of hydraulic, compact winches, Dinamic Oil is a reliable supplier. DROMEC winches has a large stock, so that we can help the customer quickly and accurately in case of malfunction and damage. This small functional ‘liftingmate’ is also often used in newbuild projects.
Application
The Dinamic Oil winch is used in various sectors as Inland shipping as a car crane winch, but also on trucks and compact cranes. The jib equipped with a winch is widely used on telehandlers, maritime- and offshore cranes. But also for agricultural mechanization, forestry and tree nurseries, the winch is a popular. At DROMEC winches, the service technicians also think along with you about the necessary accessories such as safety hooks, lifting blocks or cable that has been spooled under the right pres-tension.
Constant Tension; that’s the power of this windingmachine. This system was recently commissioning at EFG Equipment. DROMEC winches builds this machine in series for on- and offshore.
With this system, a cable is rinse up and down under continuously adjustable load. In any sector where cables, ropes or umbilicals are winded with great precision, these machines are an efficient solution. Due to the precise and easy operation, the customer saves a lot of time and damage.
Bas Broekman of EFG Equipment: ‘We should have done this ten years earlier, which saved us a lot of time. We now change a wire from a drilling rig in 20 minutes instead of a few hours.’
Power and control
DROMEC winches builds the Constant Tension windingmachine from 1.5 to 250 tons. The pulling force increases from 500 kilos to 44 tons. This makes the system suitable for many segments.
Rigging, cranes, drilling and piling racks, winches and umbilicals are examples of markets and products that benefit from this machine. For accuracy, DROMEC winches builds the windingmachines with electric drive and control. In the context of sustainability, this is an advantage. For a specific application related to the machine, DROMEC winches engineers like to think along with the customer.
Development
Unique to this machine is the control. DROMEC’s own developed software platform, customer-specific wishes for the winding machine are realized. DROMEC winches engineers can watch worldwide in the event of a malfunction. With this platform, the system is able to recover energy. The application of active heave linked to the Constant Tension machine is also a development in which DROMEC winches excels!
Dromec and the Brazilian company Underwater Transmission start a collaboration!
Dromec further expands sales network to Brazil by starting a collaboration with company Underwater Transmission.
As Dromec we are very happy to report that Mr. Rodrigo Fonseca has become a member of the Dromec family. In his role as Application and Operations Manager, Rodrigo will be an extension for the Dromec organization in Brazil.
For all winch related issues, questions, RFQ’s, project etc. you can contact him on e-mail: rodrigo@underwatertransmission.com
We wish Rodrigo all the best and we look forward to a long-term cooperation.
In the field of spooling machines, Dromec already designed and built many different versions however, this EPW-750-400-KTPF was special again.
This so called “Electric Constant Tension System” can work in a forcerange between 7 and 17 mT and can handle a reelweight of 40 mT !
Via Dromec’s wired full color HMI, the operator has realtime information about adjusted and realtime speed and torque values on each specific cable layer.
This spooling machine will be applied on board of Deme’s Spartacus for rewinding the winches with new steel cables under the right pre-tension. Because of the special design, the cable can leave the machine at several locations so all ships winches can be reached while the machine itself can remain in 1 fixed location.