Industry Dialogue
“Is There Even More?”
3D printing in elevator manufacturing Your author, Undine Stricker-Berghoff (USB), recently talked to Oliver Simmonds (OS), graduate engineer (University of Applied Science) in mechanical engineering and principal engineer at Schindler...
Meeting Demands, Rising to Challenges
A look at the U.K. and Nordics VT markets and beyond Otis Market Group Lead U.K. and Nordics and Managing Director U.K. Andy Bierer (AB) is ultimately in charge of...
“The Next Generation Secures Our Future Life”
Otis lead discusses the technical, economic and human future. In December, Udo Hoffmann (UH), Central Europe Market Group lead and chairman of the Management Board of Otis Germany, based in...
The State of the Shaft
A discussion about a sometimes-overlooked component of elevator maintenance For more than 46 years, Patrick Morrissey (PM) has led ConSpec Associates Inc., based out of his home in East Haven,...
Reaching Goals
A quick chat with Titan Elevators’ newly qualified NVQ3 engineer, Gary McSweeney by Ellie Snee Titan Elevators Engineer Gary McSweeney is now a newly qualified (National Vocational Qualification) NVQ3 engineer...
A Common Lift Act for India
Amit Gossain (AG), managing director (MD), KONE Elevators — India and South Asia, shares insights with your author (SSP) on the need for a Common Lift Act (CLA) in India....
“Solving Exciting Tasks Together”
Your author interviews the new German face in elevator standardization. Your author (SB) recently had the opportunity to talk with Eberhard Vogler (EV), chief engineer, Codes & Standards, at TK...
10 Questions (Plus a Bonus) With Maritza Carire of ESI
Elevator Systems’ vice president of operations takes some time to answer your author’s questions. by Matt Jackson I believe it was my comrade in arms, Kaija Wilkinson from ELEVATOR WORLD,...
DC to AC Migration
A conversation with KONE Americas Vertical Market Business Director Dan Walsh KONE announced in September 2022 it would retire its ReSolve with Unity drive, effective immediately. No longer modernizing older...
A Family Affair
Your author speaks with the father/daughter team behind Doppler. Doppler Lift Manufacturers S.A. was founded by Stavros Stavropoulos (SS) in 2000 and now has 20-plus years of operation in the...
