Safety

Practical Strategies

Your author elaborates on the scope for elevating safety and efficiency by adopting technological advancements in elevator systems. Elevators help us navigate the tall buildings that characterize our modern cities,...

Innovating Elevator Technology

Advancements enhance safety, improve connectivity and revolutionize building designs. Elevators are becoming increasingly high-tech, intelligent and safe, pushing manufacturers to upgrade their technology and safety features. Inovance Technology Pvt. Ltd.’s...

Change, Change, Change

More than 100 changes are included in the 2022 edition of ASME A17.1/CSA B44. Here’s why AHJs should adopt these changes without modifications. by Kevin Brinkman The ASME A17.1-2022/CSA B44:22...

Compliance and Safety: How to determine if an elevator machine guarding is OSHA compliant

by Pierre-Luc Bourgeois There are several elevator equipment-guarding solutions available on the market in a wide range of prices, but why is that? Are they all equivalent? Of course not....

CEDES iDiscovery

Elevator Safety Supervisor System submitted by CEDES The advent of electrically activated safety gears, combined with electronic safety systems, supersedes the elevator’s mechanical safety systems, which have been used for...

Safety Components

by İbrahim Özçakır A lift is a design. Just like all regulations, the requirements of Annex I of the Lifts Directive should be taken into consideration to build this design....

Basics of Testing And Certification of Safety Components

(Door Locking Gear and Safety Gear) Lift safety components are identified in Annex III of the Lifts Directive (2014/33/EU). Safety components in lifts include landing (car) door locking gears, gears...

The Importance of Vocational Education for Lifts in the 21st Century

In the 21st century, lifts have come forward as vertical-transportation vehicles with an extremely wide range of use, manufactured for the purpose of transporting people and goods. In our country,...

Texas’ RICO Elevators Earns State Safety Award

RICO Elevators, Inc., headquartered in Dickinson, Texas, earned the Award of Safety Excellence 2022 from Texas Mutual Insurance Co. Texas Mutual recognizes policyholders like RICO that share its vision to...

IoT Safety Predictive Monitoring of Lift Operations, Shafts and Buildings

by Andrew Gorin, Paolo Riva This paper was first presented at the 13th Lift & Escalator Technologies Symposium in September 2022 and printed at the symposium website at liftsymposium.org. Keywords:...

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EW U.S. Office Closed for Fourth of July

Vasa

TKE Names Vasa Chief People Officer

Feenstra

Wittur Appoints Feenstra as CCO, President and GM EMEA

EFESME’S BOD AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY REVIEWS FUTURE OF EUROPEAN LIFT SMES

EFESME’s BoD and General Assembly Reviews Future of European Lift SMEs

Dr. Peter Lauer; image courtesy of VFA-Interlift

In Memoriam: Dr. Peter Lauer