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Ref: ME 14/T- 48, 61, 68, Date: 16-09-2013
71 & 74

Cranes, Lifting Chains and Related Equipment Sectional Committee, MED 14

TO:
a) The interested members of Mechanical Engineering Division Council, MEDC
b) All members of Cranes, Lifting Chains and Related Equipment Sectional Committee, MED 14
c) All others interested

Dear Sirs,

Please find enclosed the following documents:

Doc. No. TITLE

Doc: ME 14(1142)C Draft Indian Standard Cranes - Vocabulary: Part 1 General [Superseding IS 13473(Part 1):1992]
(Adoption of ISO 4306-1:2007)
Doc: ME 14(1143)C Draft Indian Standard Cranes -- Classification : Part 2 Mobile cranes [Supersedng IS 13834(Part
2) :1993] (Adoption o ISO 4301-2 :2009)
Doc: ME 14(1144)C Draft Indian Standard Cranes - Test code and procedures (Superseding IS 14470:1997) (Adoption of
ISO 4310:2009)
Doc: ME 14(1265)C Draft Indian Standard Chain slings assembled by methods other than welding - Grade T(8) (Adoption
of ISO 7593:1986)
Doc: ME 14(1267)C Draft Indian Standard Cranes - Inspections: Part 1 General [Superseding IS 14473(Part 1):1997]
(Adoption of ISO 9927-1:2013)

Kindly examine the Draft Documents and forward your views stating any difficulties which you are likely to experience in
your business or profession, if this is finally adopted.

Last date for receipt of comments: 15-11-2013. .

Comments, if any, may please be made in the format as given overleaf and mailed to the undersigned at the
above address.

In case no comments are received or comments received are of editorial nature, you will kindly permit us to presume your approval
for the above document as finalized. However, in case of comments of technical in nature are received then it may be finalized either
in consultation with the Chairman, Sectional Committee or referred to the Sectional committee for further necessary action if so
desired by the Chairman, Sectional Committee.

These documents are also hosted on BIS website www.bis.org.in.

Thanking you,
Yours faithfully

(T. V. Singh)
Encl: As above Scientist F & Head (Mech Engg)

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 IS/ISO 9927-1:2013
Doc: MED 14(1267)c

Draft Indian Standard

Cranes -- Inspections -- Part 1: General
(Adoption of ISO 9927-1: 2013)

ICS 53.020.20

Not to be reproduced without the permission of Last date for receipt of

BIS or used as a STANDARD comments is: 15-11-2013

NATIONAL FOREWORD

(Adoption clause to be added later on).

This standard supersedes IS 14473 (Pt 1): 1997 Cranes -- Inspections -- Part 1: General.

This standard has two parts under General Crane - Inspections. Other part of this standard
is as follows: Part 3 Tower crane.

In the adopted standard certain terminology and conventions are not identical with those
used in Indian Standards; attention is drawn specially to the following:

a) Wherever the words International Standard appear, referring to this

standard, they should be read as Indian Standard.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards
the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.

In this adopted standard, reference appears to certain International Standards for which
Indian Standard also exists. The corresponding Indian Standard which are to be substituted
in their respective places are listed below along with their degree of equivalence for the
edition indicated:

International Standard Corresponding Indian Standard Degree of

Equivalence

ISO 4306-1 Cranes - IS/ISO 4306-1 Cranes - Identical

Vocabulary Part 1 Vocabulary Part 1 General (under
General Wide circulation)

ISO 12482-1 Cranes - IS 14475(PT 1):1997 /ISO 12482- Identical

Condition monitoring 1:1995 Cranes - Condition
Part 1 General monitoring Part 1 General
The technical committee has reviewed the provisions of the following International
Standards referred in this adopted standard and has decided that they are acceptable for
use in conjunction with this standard:

International Standard Title

ISO 12480-1:1997 Cranes -- Safe use -- Part 1: General

ISO 23814 Cranes -- Competency requirements for crane inspectors

For the purpose of deciding whether a particular requirement of this standard is complied
with, the final value, observed or calculated, expressing the result of a test or analysis
shall be rounded off in accordance with IS 2:1960 Rules for rounding off numerical
values (revised). The number of significant places retained in the rounded off value
should be the same as that of the specified value in this standard.

FOR COMPLETE TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT, KINDLY REFER ISO 9927: 2013

For obtaining a hard copy of the complete document please contact/write to:

Scientist F & Head

Mechanical Engineering Department
Bureau of Indian Standards
Manak Bhavan, 9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg,
New Delhi 110 002
Email : med@bis.org.in
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