About us
Our know-how
- Helping you to control your lifting and handling equipment
- Improve the safety of people and the integrity of your equipment
- Evaluate the residual life of your equipment
As the French leader in fatigue diagnosis by special assessment Aquass offers you its skills for a global offer to assist you in controlling your equipment.
Our fields of intervention
We can work on your equipment:
Lifting equipment
- Port gantries
- Rail cranes
- Boat lifts
- Offshore cranes
- Overhead and gantry cranes
- Mobile cranes
- Specific accessories
Continuous handling
- Ship loaders/unloaders
- Bucket elevators/extractors
- Reclaimers
- Belt conveyors
- Screw conveyors
Mechanicals
- Structures
- Moving walkways
- Lock and dry dock doors
- Mechanisms
Our activities
Your equipment is strategic for your production, it handles dangerous and/or high added value loads with a high cost of ownership.
For your equipment, you need to :
- Check their integrity according to their past, present and future operations
- Evaluate their residual life
- Perform risk-based predictive maintenance
- Define appropriate maintenance and inspection plans
- Analyse the causes of damage and malfunctions
- Be supported in your equipment acquisition, renovation and repair projects
Ageing - Expertise
We have been working for more than 20 years on fatigue problems and the risks of failure in service due to the phenomenon of ageing. Based on the method recommended by the CETMEF, we have exercised our skills on more than 300 machines, both in ports and in industry. We have also developed our know-how in the search for the causes of accidents, damage or malfunctions. Our assignments can include detailed inspections, calculation checks (including modelling), recommendations to remedy problems, etc.
Assistance to project managers
Our team is at your disposal for all your major maintenance, revamping, new or second-hand purchase projects. We can help you in the various phases of your project: preliminary project, consultation, design, manufacture, assembly, testing and acceptance, operation, dismantling.
Digilife
Our Digilife system is designed to measure and record the parameters of your lifting equipment to:
- Determine its degree of fatigue
- Enable faster troubleshooting
- Carry out investigations in the event of a major failure
It also performs direct calculations of:
- Ageing levels of structures and drive trains as a whole
- The main fatigue parameters on structural elements, allowing fatigue calculations of these elements based on modelling
Our expertise
Engineering
Calculations
Modelling
Our Team
Philippe CAMY
Philippe CAMY
Nicolas CHRISOSTOME
Nicolas CHRISOSTOME
Laïd EDDOUIAISSI
Laïd EDDOUIAISSI
Carole LARTIGAU
Carole LARTIGAU
Michel PEYPOUDAT
Michel PEYPOUDAT
Why choose
Aquass?
Full support
Experts in heavy lifting equipment, port, industrial, or other, Aquass masters the design, technology, risks and regulations.
Assistance for all phases of the equipment life cycle, from the analysis of the need to its dismantling.
The reference in terms of fatigue diagnosis
Aquass has been performing fatigue diagnostics on lifting equipment since the risk was first identified.
Our methodolgy for analysing and calculating residual service lift is unrivalled, enabling the durability of a machine to be controlled by optimised overhaul.
A relevant and pragmatic opinion
Aquass knows the problems of operators (availability, deadlines, costs, ...).
Our recommendations are technically relevant and pragmatic with regard to your constraints.