Focus Topics
Keep Your Elevators Running with Door Operation Upgrades
This article discusses the performance benefits of upgrading elevator door equipment. The average elevator door opens and closes more than 200,000 times a year. No wonder the majority – more...
Sematic Elevator Door Equipment: Energy Conservation in the Elevator Industry
An in-depth look at Sematic’s energy-efficient door-drive controllers Energy conservation is a current hot topic and one of the main challenges for the 21st century. Lowering and optimizing power consumption...
Freight Elevator Door Control: An Opportunity for Wireless Technology
A comparison between hard-wired freight elevator door-control systems and wireless systems by Steven Reynolds, P. Eng and Henry E. Peelle, III, DM Introduction To date, wireless technologies have found only...
Door Protection from Formula Systems
An overview of the company’s recently launched Vision series In September 2011, Formula Systems launched its new Vision series, offering a variety of features designed to inspire passenger confidence and...
GAL Spectral-Lites
Used in conjunction with the GALaxy controller, Spectral-Lite is a push-button lamping system that eliminates the need to physically alter button illumination. GAL Manufacturing Corp.’s Spectral-Lite is a push-button lamping...
Steve Romnes, President of VMI
The Vertitron Midwest, Inc. leader weighs in on the economy, his company’s future and why boxing helps his perspective. Steve Romnes, president of Vertitron Midwest, Inc. (VMI), a designer and...
Monitor Fixtures
This overview details two fixture products offered by Monitor Elevator Products LLC. Recently separated from Janus Elevator Products, Inc. (ELEVATOR WORLD, December 2011), Monitor Elevator Products LLC focuses on elevator...
Scheduled Maintenance – A Waste of Money
Can the industry make more money by selling elevator up time instead of service visits? The elevator industry earns most of its living from maintenance contracts. You can presumably make...
Maintenance Support Tools for Elevator Equipments that use Cellular Phones
This paper was presented at Lucerne 2010, the ÂInternational Congress on Vertical Transportation ÂTechnologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 18, edited by A. Lustig. It is a...
The Use of Cameras to Evacuate People in Elevators
by John Trett and Charles Simpkins This paper was presented at Lucerne 2010, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 18, edited...
