As an important lifting and conveying tool, steel lines are high-risk components and are considered lifelong in many sectors. For a long time the safety of steel wire ropes has often remained blind spots due to the lack of scientific and reliable test equipment. Today, however, real-time safety monitoring systems are used and maximum safety is ensured in all systems and equipment using steel rope.

With the various technologies used today, many defects in steel ropes such as broken wires, wear, corrosion fatigue, diameter reduction and cross-sectional area loss can be detected at a high rate. In this way, efficiency losses in steel ropes in terms of hidden danger, waste and low inefficiency are successfully detected.

Businesses must always have safety checks on steel ropes. In this way, it increases the utilization rate of the equipment effectively. In order to increase the service life of steel ropes and reduce the cost of steel rope usage, periodic inspections and inspections should not be interrupted.

The services provided by the competent authorities in this direction are based on non-destructive testing methods. In this way, without damaging the steel ropes, defects and performance values ​​are revealed.

The safety of operations and systems in elevators, ropeways, ferries, lifting devices, bridges, container cranes and many other areas where steel ropes are used depends on the results of regular control.

In non-destructive testing, special equipment developed for this purpose is used. These equipment are particularly suitable for the inspection of high-value steel ropes.

The standards that are taken as basis in the control and inspection works carried out by the competent authorities are as follows:

• TS EN 12385 Steel wire ropes - Safety

• TS EN 13411 Terminators for steel wire ropes

• TS EN 13414 Steel wire rope slings - Safety

• TS EN 10264 Steel wire and wire products - Steel wire for ropes