Award for smarter cabin

The Smarter Cabin was designed in close cooperation with the cargo equipment manufacturer’s key customers to provide crane operators with an ergonomic and comfortable work place, with improved visibility of the work area. In addition to high standard design, the evaluation criteria included usability, environmental and social responsibility and impact on business.

“When starting to plan the new cabin, we adopted a user-centred design approach, which included observing the operators and their activities during their work, says Johannes Tarkiainen, industrial design manager at Konecranes. “We also interviewed the operators to learn what improvements they desired for their work environment. The cabin design is therefore based on existing user needs.”

The new cabin can be used for many different applications across Konecranes’ product range, including rail mounted gantry (RMG) and rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes and straddle carriers, as well as for handling other kinds of loads with electric overhead cranes.