Focus Topics

Full Steam Ahead

Gustavo Paredes (GP), Schindler senior vice president, U.S. Area South, shares an in-depth look at the dynamic and growing region with your author (KW). Gustavo Paredes KW: Please provide a...

50 Years Focused on Service

PTL Equipment president discusses how the company’s strategic move to Georgia decades ago opened them up to new markets and so much more. With 436-plus combined years of service and...

Thinking “Outside the Box”

With challenging modernization in the Florida panhandle, the Cavinder family legacy continues. Tapped by Commercial Elevator Consultants, LLC (CEC), Senior Consultant Jim Van Deusen to bid an elevator modernization in...

Rock Solid

Alabama-based Bagby Elevator has steadily grown into a Southeastern powerhouse. The Birmingham headquarters now(l-r) Southern Division Vice President Todd Sharpe, based in Mobile, presents a “Golden Eagle” solid gold coin...

The Sunny Side

Resilient, vibrant and growing, the region is treating VT companies well. Before the pandemic, TK Elevator’s (TKE) MAX cloud-based predictive-maintenance tool used data from more than 85,000 connected elevators throughout...

VFD Braking Resistor Protection

In this Product Spotlight, your author introduces a new safety feature allowing elevator drives to monitor for braking failures. KEB has introduced a new safety feature that allows the F5...

Touch-free Elevator control Technology for Public Health

In this Product Spotlight, NZT’s HoverTap keeps VT users safe from pandemic dangers. by Dr. Nima Ziraknejad, Pranav Saxena and Shaun Harper The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented constraints on...

Smart Devices in the Elevator Car

The 2N® LiftGate offers critical infrastructure for connections in this Product Spotlight. by Jan Kapička and Robert Urbanek These days, very few modern buildings can be found without a large...

Remote Monitoring: Risks and Rewards

In this Readers’ Platform, your author addresses industrial safety in light of digital transformation. More and more safety components are supplied with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that communicate with sensors...

IoT: Magic or Myth?

A review of available Internet of Things products and their solutions for lift companies. This article was first presented by the Online Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies, September 23-25,...