Safety Components

Schmersal Group Names Ramji Singh As Managing Director

The Schmersal Group has appointed Ramji Singh as the new managing director of its subsidiary Schmersal India Pvt. Ltd. The takeover of the management comes into force with immediate effect....

AiO Speed Watcher

Your author attends the highly anticipated launch of a new safety product. Atwell International launched its new product, the AiOâ„¢ speed watcher, during a customer day at the specialist training...

Winchester’s Star Illuminated

Light-filled Stannah passenger lift inspires visitors. submitted by Stannah; images by Nick Cox Architects Winchester Cathedral, a place of worship for more than 900 years, has been brought up to...

Vision Plus

This Product Spotlight showcases an elevator door safety solution that offers installation efficiency. submitted by Formula Systems Elevate your expectations with the Vision Plus elevator door safety solution, an American...

Toward Smart Elevators – the KLEEMANN Experience

With Four Innovations: Passenger Emergency Detection (PED), Electronic Shaft Measurement (ESM), G-Braille Elevator Assistance System for Visually Impaired People and Information on Safe Environment (ISE) by Dr. Giorgos Georgiadis This...

Pit Safety System

This Product Spotlight focuses on a system designed to mitigate the top three causes of pit accidents. submitted by ECI America ECI America offers a complete pit safety system appropriately...

Change for the Better

In this Readers’ Platform, your author talks about how safer pit ladders are coming due to 2022 A17.1-B44 code. by Margaret Lourenço The ASME A17.1-2022/CSA B44:22 Safety Code for Elevators...

A Balancing Act

The Conflicts Between Cybersecurity and Functional Safety by Tijmen Molema This paper was presented at the 2023 International Elevator & Escalator Symposium in Edinburgh, Scotland. In the rapidly evolving landscape...

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...

222 Broadway; photo © John W. Cahill for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

TEI Group Repositions Elevators for Major NYC Conversion

ARCHI-TREAD RELOCATING FROM N.J. TO FLORIDA

Archi-Tread Relocating From N.J. to Florida

Entrance to the Victoria Building, which was built in 1945; photo by SnowyBadger for Wikipedia

Halifax Hospital to Get Elevator Replacement, Upgrades

Stationslift Storingen, a website for reporting broken elevators, was created in response to the structural problem by wheelchair user Kasrt Lovers; image courtesy of X.

Out-of-Order Lifts at Dutch Train Stations Leave Wheelchair Users Stranded

FUJITEC EXPLAINS NEW STRATEGY CENTERED AROUND DIGITAL TWIN CONCEPT

Fujitec Explains New Strategy Centered Around Digital Twin Concept