Modernization underway for the Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF). EESF met for its Annual General Membership (AGM) meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Airport North in Atlanta on March 8. For the past year, EESF has been undergoing a “modernization” project of sorts. Old programs are being updated, the board is being realigned, new…
Read More
Furthering ideas on “How Fast Could the Fastest Elevators Be?” Elevators traveling over long vertical distances at high speeds must be considered impossible. This advantage has been reserved by the laws of nature for horizontal travel. Having read with interest the article “How Fast Could the Fastest Elevators Be?” by Dr. Albert So and Ricky…
Read More
China’s Ningbo Xinda Group builds on past major developments to continue bringing advanced products to the world. Elevator and escalator manufacturers in China have been confronted with unprecedented challenges due to the global economic slowdown, as well as the present restructuring and growth-maintaining stages in the nation’s economic development process. Competitive companies have been taking…
Read More
Wurtec uses input from mechanics and customers to continue to innovate new products and processes. Wurtec’s business concept – to provide tools and elevator products today and for the future – continues with more success and many new ideas, according to Wurtec founder Steve Wurth. Wurtec began in 1985 in Toledo, Ohio, when Wurth developed…
Read More
Training-program requirements and how to use NEII®’s matrices for OSHA’s general industry and construction standards A thorough employee training program is an essential element of every employer’s safety and health management system. First, OSHA’s standards are replete with mandatory employee training requirements. Failure to provide training required by OSHA’s construction or general industry standards exposes…
Read More
Otis’ parts supplier UNITEC has an extensive catalog of elevator/escalator replacement parts and recently introduced Safety-in-a-Bag, a kit for field mechanics. When a customer wanted to retain its sturdy, 1940s-era Otis ML escalator system, they knew who to call to make it happen: UNITEC Parts Co., which is the OEM supplier for all Otis parts.…
Read More
An introduction to the complex educational tool that has varied uses. In this first of a two-part series, we will consider the oscilloscope as an educational tool. It is a wonderful gateway into the world of electronics, and it seems there is no end to the multiple layers of elementary particle interaction it can reveal.…
Read More
Successful sixth International Elevator & Escalator (IEE) Expo indicates exciting times for industry. As an economy, India has one of the fastest growth rates (7.3%) in the world. Starting as an independent country heavily dependent on agriculture, India today boasts an industrial sector growing at 4.4% and financial, real-estate and professional services that grew at…
Read More
Despite slower growth, the world’s largest vertical-transportation market is still a land of opportunity. Rapid urbanization created explosive growth for the vertical-transportation market in China in 2003-2013. Although that growth is slower now, with the new-equipment market declining approximately 5% in 2015, the market remains the world’s largest for the elevator/escalator industry. Most of the…
Read More
Designer of Jeddah Tower elevators outlines technology and in-depth planning going into the elevatoring of the future world’s tallest. When it is completed in 2018, the mixed-use Jeddah Tower (formerly Kingdom Tower) will become the new world’s tallest tower. It will contain multiple, stacked mixed-use population zones, including subterranean parking, building entry/amenity/retail floors, office floors,…
Read More
