Liftinstituut sees how customers want to gain an overview of their customer data via remote monitoring. By Koos van Lindenberg and Joey Tienhooven Various parties in the lift industry collect lift use, maintenance and inspection data via remote-monitoring systems in a digital portal. There is also a development of organizing lift maintenance based on this…
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Texas-based Kings III describes the evolution of its ORM service. David Bryant (DB), vice president at Kings III Emergency Communications, took the time to talk with ELEVATOR WORLD (EW) about the company’s Online Remote Monitoring (ORM) performance monitoring and event notification service, which it describes as versatile and affordable. ORM’s Elevator Monitoring Interrogation Tool (EMIT)…
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Leveraging IoT in elevator maintenance by Dan Bryant, Johannes Guntsch, Kyle Hendren and Christopher Pearce Elevator downtime slows people and operations. Additionally, we find there is not enough information coming back about the current health of equipment in service. This creates daily inefficiencies for building owners and service providers. Increased operating costs and downtime affect…
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An examination of the necessary components for such elevator-related technology as VFDs Thomas Edison’s first electrical distribution systems starting in lower Manhattan, New York, were DC, but AC quickly gained market share and, before long, prevailed. Developed by Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, the AC format had some key advantages, which is why it has…
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Seventh Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies delivers event’s usual high level of interaction and information. photos by Peters Research Ltd. I opened my report in 2016 on the Sixth Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies with the statement, “I know I sound like a cracked record, but this event just gets better year by…
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Cab, entrance, door and operator manufacturer shifts focus to clients’ needs. On the cusp of a new year, Columbia Elevator Products Co. Inc. is emerging with an all-new mission: to operate with a customer-centric mindset and promote an overall culture built around best satisfying the concerns and needs of all its stakeholders (customers and employees…
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Delaware Elevator provides replica Prohibition-era unit for Seacrets Distillery in Ocean City, Maryland. The Seacrets Distilling Co. building may be new, but step into its elevator, and it’s easy to imagine it filled with cigar smoke and populated with the stylish flappers and bootleggers who were part of Ocean City, Maryland’s past. That’s by design:…
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NAEC defies hurricane to hold its 2017 convention and exposition in Atlantic City; cover photo courtesy of The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority. by Lee Freelandphotos by Lee Freeland and John Dimaio Hurricane Irma struck Orlando in the early morning hours of September 11, what had been scheduled as the first day of the 68th Annual…
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Many in the elevator industry are passionate about what they do and continue doing it long past typical retirement age. A perfect example is Larry L. “Poppy” Pummell. His son, Jim Pummell, general manager at Tri-State Drilling & Repair, Inc., headquartered in Arcadia, Florida, shared the following with ELEVATOR WORLD, including a picture of Poppy…
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With 27,225 lb. of lifting capacity and almost triple the floor area of other large hoists, Alimak Hek’s Mammoth Triplex is the world’s largest construction hoist. It was recently used in construction of the New York University Langone Kimmel Pavilion hospital in New York City, a US$1.2-billion expansion project scheduled for completion in 2018. Due…
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