Focus Topics
Effective Management of Elevator/Escalator Maintenance Agreements
Ten important steps to follow as a manager of the ever-important maintenance agreement For those responsible for the management of elevator and escalator maintenance agreements, the task can become rather...
A New Way of Recordkeeping
In this Readers Platform, your author describes how GAL and Helios joined forces to create a mobile solution to facilitate the MCP process. Walking through the National Association of Elevator...
Digital World
Remote monitoring is bringing elevator reliability to new heights. Mobile technology is transforming the way elevator companies operate, and many are moving fast so they don’t get left behind. Technicians...
Comparison of Concepts for Evacuation Lifts
This paper was presented at Paris 2014, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 20, edited by A. Lustig. It is a...
Use of Elevators During Emergencies
This paper was presented at Paris 2014, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 20, edited by A. Lustig. It is a...
It Is Safety Awareness That Counts!
In this Readers Platform, Elevator World’s Chinese correspondent explores the safety concerns around accidents in China. By 2014, there were more than three million elevators and escalators in China. This...
Rope-Drive Elevators
Otis’ turn-of-the-20th-century designs for a unique elevator drive shaped the modern traction elevator. The invention of new elevator systems has often followed a distinct developmental trajectory: inventors pursue a main...
Hamad International Airport, Doha
ThyssenKrupp completes mammoth task at the world’s newest international hub. A total of 385 ThyssenKrupp Elevator elevators, escalators and moving walks transfer passengers comfortably through Hamad International Airport (HIA), located...
Simulation Solves Elevator Accident Mystery
Multiphysics simulation is used to investigate and determine how an elevator brake failed prematurely. by Dr. Stuart Brown, Dr. Nagi Elabbasi and Dr. Matthew Hancock In 2007, an elevator began...
So, You’re an HR Manager
This Readers Platform explains the job and growing importance of an HR professional. “Human Resources isn’t just a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business.”– Human Resources...
