Focus Topics
Methodologies for Designing and Developing New Concepts in Vertical Transportation
Escalator design, models and methodologies are a few of the key points in this article. by Juan David Cano-Moreno, José MarÃa Cabanellas Becerra, Jesús Félez Mindán and Carlos Labajo Tirado...
Maintaining Elevators and Escalators in the Transit Environment, Part 1
An overview of the equipment and standards of escalators and elevators in transit systems Mass transit found in many major metropolitan cities is an intermodal network connecting bus, rail, automobile...
Optimizing Maintenance and Repair Cost Reduction
Adopting intelligent lift-system sensors with intelligent evaluation algorithms can facilitate permanent monitoring. This paper was presented at USA 2012, the ÂInternational Congress on Vertical Transportation ÂTechnologies and first published in...
Creating a Written Maintenance Control Program Document
The process of creating and using a Maintenance Control Program is explained. Beginning with the publication of the ASME A17.1-2000 Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators, a written Maintenance Control...
Advanced Elevator Maintenance Network during a Major Seismic Disaster
Maintenance network systems that support the restoration of elevators damaged during earthquakes by Motoyoshi Nakamura, Yasuhiro Shibata and Kouzou Mabuchi - Hitachi Building Systems Co., Ltd., Japan This paper was...
Remote Monitoring and Supervision System
A system to control hundreds of lifts over TCP/IP network is presented and detailed. André Guerra, Rui Pinheiro and António Garrido This paper was presented at USA 2012, the ÂInternational...
The Value of QEI Certification
Defining the term certification, and a look at the necessity for certification of elevator inspectors With the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)’s recent announcement stating it will cease accrediting...
A17.7/B44.7 Builds Bridges between North America and Europe
Choosing an additional certification procedure based on ASME A17.7/CSA B44.7 can allow companies to deviate from the stipulations under ASME A17.1/CSA B44. Lift manufacturers increasingly choose an additional certification procedure...
NAEC’s CET and CAT Certification Programs
A look at the National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) Certified Elevator Technician (CET®) program and Certified Accessibility and Private Residence Lift Techni-cian (CAT®) certification programs The elevator industry is...
Global Elevator Certification
A global overview of various elevator regulations Elevator inspections and certifications are performed in different ways around the world. With the globalization of the elevator market, challenges arise when local...
