Emphasis on safety at Ron StageMaster demo
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Eilon, a family business, was established over 40 years ago and their safety monitoring systems are used in diverse applications including entertainment stages, aerospace with sales to NASA, wind turbines and shipment weighing to mention a few.
“The Eilon Ron StageMaster concept is very simple,” said Ilan Bahar. “When you hang equipment above people, you have to know the load of every point because there are limitations, such as the limitations of a roof. You have to make sure that you don’t cross those limitations and that is what the load cell does. It measures the load at every point, sends the data to the receiver and then you have it on a display where you can continually monitor the status.
“Before people used the load monitor, they would make calculations, but even if you are in a position where everything is stable, once you hit the controller, everything changes. The Ron StageMaster system helps to verify the plan and is also a second defence layer: First is the load calculation plan, and second is a realtime verification that the calculated loads are similar to the measured load. Both layers are necessary in order to provide an effective overload protection.”
For Duncan Riley of DWR, the load cell demo was an eye-opener. “We were very proud to introduce Ron StageMaster to South Africa for the first time and Ilan was down to earth and built good relationships with our clients. This was an educational experience and it actually makes you scared to rig above people’s head without actually knowing weights.”
(Jim Evans)
