Robotics and automation help ECS boost efficiency, expand product lines and improve the customer experience. Elevator Cable Supply Corp. (ECS) embraces automation and robotic technology to improve its manufacturing process and provide better service for its customers. The company has seen many changes since its founding more than five decades ago, and with new ownership…
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In this Readers Platform, editor asks industry to take factory technology into the field. While the world of construction is in constant change, there are many more changes to come that will affect it in the future. Just a short list of the items to consider that could change the way we build: drones, action…
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Elevator innovation was a persistent theme in event’s 15th iteration.
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Third edition of fair brings large response, as 250 brands from Turkey and 10 other countries are displayed at CNREXPO Fair Center in Istanbul. he Eurasia Lift Fair, organized by Istanbul Fuarcılık, ASFED (Elevator Industrialists’ Federation), TASIAD(Turkey Elevator Industrialists and Businessmen Association) and the CNR Holding companies, took place on March 22-25 at the CNREXPO…
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Exiting the race to develop the world’s fastest elevator, Toshiba is focusing on greater capacity to fulfill growing demand from across Asia. Until being surpassed by the high-speed elevators in Shanghai Tower (ELEVATOR WORLD, July 2013), Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems’ two elevators in Taipei 101 had been the world’s fastest elevators in commercial operation,…
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Stockmann’s flagship store in downtown Helsinki, and its KONE VT system, have been welcoming shoppers since 1930. There was a time in the U.S. when large, multistory department stores, such as New Orleans’ D.H. Holmes, were king. Meeting under the D.H. Holmes clock on Canal Street was a tradition. It is here, in fact, where…
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Colley Elevator Co. of Bensenville, Illinois, featured this interesting installation, at 321 South Jefferson Street in Chicago, on its Twitter account. Colley’s Craig Zomchek explained the company encountered it when it recently needed its five-year full-load test. While Colley passed on the job, Zomchek said the unit “works just fine.” Noticing that its controller was…
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Updated Remote-Access Software KEB America has a new version, 8.0, of its COMBIVIS Connect software. Independently certified by ProtectEM, a security-auditing organization for the industrial and process automation industry, the product is a remote-access software solution for programmable logic controllers and human-machine interfaces. Using the software to connect to a remote or distributed installation allows…
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Demand for advanced technology and installation practices is rising as the size of cruise ships and ferries continues to grow and more services and attractions are added to them. Italy-based Schindler Marine’s solution is its Personal Occupant Requirement Terminal system, which it has been actively marketing to the passenger shipping sector. Passenger Ship Technology states…
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Hyundai Elevator has released details of its contract for Security Forces Medical City (SFMC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The US$30-million deal from the Saudi Arabian government is to outfit it with 284 elevators and 24 escalators. This includes seven geared elevators with capacities of at least 2000 kg, 10 gearless elevators and 78 machine-room-less elevators.…
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