Focus Topics
Digitalization and the User-Consumer
In this Readers’ Platform, your author outlines the keys to keeping customers happy in a rapidly changing world. Digitalization and connected elevators have been top of mind for many elevator...
Better Buildings, Better Lives
Your author explains the significance of technology for real estate and VT. Since the 1990s, new, innovative construction technologies adopted by the real estate industry have made the construction of...
Advanced Technology in Elevator Engineering
In this Industry Dialogue, Shashi Kant Mishra (SKM), an engineer and lift consultant, shares perspectives with your author (SSP). SSP: Tell me about yourself. Shashi Kant Mishra SKM: I am...
Upgraded MRL
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric has launched the NEXIEZ-MRL Version 2 machine-room-less (MRL) elevator, which comes with a new door operating system and offers optional health, safety and convenience features, the company...
A Diverse Approach to Lifts: Cabin Design
Elevator design is determined according to the capacity, the number of people, expectations of the times, the target audience and the country. For elevator manufacturers that export to several places...
Walls and Interior Design in Elevator Cabins
Being the only component that the passengers see, aesthetics of elevator cabins are important. Cabins can be manufactured of various types and materials. Nevertheless, the material and the decorative structure...
Old Stairs, “New” Steps
If your vintage escalator’s parts are unavailable, there is still a way to get replacements. ES Escalator & Elevator Parts Co., Ltd., founded in 2013, focuses on the supply of...
Research Into Real-Time Video Monitoring and Remote-Control System of Escalators
In this Engineering article, your author explores means to improve safety. Keywords: video monitoring; detection; functional safety; remote control Abstract: Escalators are safety-related, heavy-duty special equipment. It is a challenge...
Historical Buildings, Modern VT
In this Project Spotlight, DOPPLER designs modern VT for historical buildings, upgrading the ride experience while respecting the local heritage. by Konstantina Parisi Elevators and escalators are part of a...
Construction of Poincare Space Map and Phase Plan Map for Escalators with Mechanical Fault, Part 3
Your author constructs his maps for an escalator suffering from mechanical failure. Abstract In this study, we will construct the Phase plan map (Poincare section) and the Poincare space map...
