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A Traditional Classroom May Not Be Necessary
In this Reader’s Platform, your author makes the case for the effectiveness of distance learning.
Arched Escalators at the Elbe Philharmonic Hall
[…] spot. Additionally, the sectional drives (with special drive wheels and sensors), step chains, base and controller unit were custom made. Other components were part of normal serial production. Before installation of the arched escalators, a 1:1 model was created in 2008 to clarify the practicality of the design details, including the step chains and […]
Messaging Systems for Escalators and Moving Walks
[…] Sound View Electronics has been making automated messaging systems and improving escalator safety for more than 15 years. The Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, company strives to provide a product that delivers messages that are crisp and easy to understand, even in cavernous areas. They have to be resistant to heavy vibration, dirt and grime, and […]
Art in Motion
[…] Lifting equipment in the early 19th century was viewed purely for its utility, and, for the most part, it was a dirty business, with heavy machinery lifting product and freight. Passengers, along with their safety, comfort and feelings about the journey were not a consideration. Then, the industrial revolution created a new social class, […]
The Evolution of Elevator Cab Design
[…] equipment.” Such technological advancements can yield a multiplier effect, with future advances built upon previous improvements. For instance, Columbia would have been unable to develop its LamiCan® product line without the foundational advancements of its InstaFast technology. LamiCan is Columbia’s term for its laminated “can,” or steel-shell car. The LamiCan process involves the application […]
Turning Escalators into Profit Centers while Enhancing Safety
ADRailUSA has licensed a product that creates revenue for escalator maintenance companies and their customers. That’s because the company frequently hires escalator maintenance agencies to adjust the escalators, and often hires them to install ADRail film on escalator handrails at venues such as O’Hare International Airport in Chicago and Boston Logan International Airport. ADRailUSA […]
A Houser Horizontal Hydraulic Elevator Engine, Part Two
[…] the E.W. Houser Elevator Manufactory. Advertisements published in the Syracuse Daily Journal reveal that by February 1886, he was able to offer customers a wide range of products that included hydraulic passenger and freight elevators, steam- and hand-powered freight elevators, sidewalk hoists, and dumbwaiters. Houser proposed that his “elevators and hoisting machinery” were suitable […]
Columbia Elevator’s New Facility
[…] fabricating our entrances and shipping them to the jobsite. Rather, we’re bringing in materials from the OEM’s factories all over the world, [combining] them with our own products, staging the job and shipping it to the site ‘on the jump,’ a few floors at a time, as needed.” Columbia started occupying the building two […]
Elevator Seismic Numerical Analysis
FEA modeling of MRL elevator behavior under seismic conditions following EN 81-77
Mount Tianping Cliff Elevator, China
[…] was caused by temperature fluctuations. To guarantee the precision of future guide-rail erection, they established pairs of reference plumb lines for morning, noon and afternoon temperatures. Such attention to detail resulted in the exceptional ride comfort of the finished product. Work related to 18 inspection doors and a passenger-evacuation ladder continued several months into 2014.