Talk:Overhead crane

History
*See the Hoists Manufacturers Institute site[4] for true life calculation witch is based on load and hours used. In today's modern world for the North American market there are a few governing bodies for the industry. The Overhead Alliance is a group that represents Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA), Hoist Manufacturers Institute (HMI), and Monorail Manufacturers Association (MMA). These product counsels of the Material Handling Industry of America have joined forces to create promotional materials to raise the awareness of the benefits to overhead lifting. The members of this group are marketing representatives of the member companies.


 * Not a part of history. Undue attention to North American market.92.252.9.230 (talk) 14:27, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

First Crane company in Germany
I've marked the article as for undue attention to Demag Cranes; an early crane manufacturer in the Ruhr. By means of ample illustration, it seems that the company now makes overhead cranes but this was not the case in the early years. The illustration of a company product in the cited source clearly shows a jib crane. WP:UNDUE and WP:TOPIC seem to apply. Capitalization as in original, BTW. --Old Moonraker (talk) 18:34, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * User:Ronz has trimmed some of the over-ample illustration—thanks. The relevance of the early operations of Demag, and its jib-crane manufacturing predecessors, still seems doubtful. --Old Moonraker (talk) 18:52, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Re-write help needed
I've marked this article as needing a rewrite. I seems to have become disjointed and I feel it can be simplified and made universally understandable. I think we have some good facts and pictures, but the article simply needs some organization and conciseness. --Restocking (talk) 12:44, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Is that an offer? My own keenness to deal with this page has been irretrievably blunted by a reluctance of some readers to accept deletions of COI, SOAP and inaccurate material. Good luck! --Old Moonraker (talk) 13:00, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It is, but I could use some help! A discussion of a particular COI instance is here. --Restocking (talk) 13:56, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

I created a brief summary at the beginning to help less-technical readers get an idea of what an overhead crane is. I think it could be a bit more concise, so feel free to help there. I also tried to begin establishing structure, which still seems a bit awkward and needs more content.

There is some good information already contained in the article, so I hate to delete the overly technical sections, but some of them are pretty technical. I'd appreciate another set of objective eyes on the article as a whole, which I do not believe needs to be overly in-depth. Thoughts? --Restocking (talk) 13:40, 25 October 2011 (UTC)