Maintenance

A Discussion About Preventive-Maintenance Practices

Observations from a consultant Since 2008, your author has investigated elevator, escalator, VRC (vertical reciprocating conveyor), A10.4 personnel hoist, and even home-built elevator injury incidents, observing the conditions and causes...

Right Way Elevator Opens Office in Bonita Springs

Right Way Elevator Maintenance, Inc., an American Elevator Group (AEG) company that specializes in the maintenance, modernization and repair of elevator equipment, announced the expansion of its service footprint with...

Ontario’s ATTA Elevators Expands into B.C. With Acquisition

ATTA Elevators, headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, has expanded into British Columbia with the acquisition of Metro Elevator, based in Vancouver, ATTA announced on June 28. Metro will become a...

Jackson Lift Group Adds Escalators to Maintenance Contract

The Jackson Lift Group Manchester team recently won a maintenance contract for the escalators at the four-story Princes Quay Shopping Centre in Hull, the company announced on LinkedIn in April....

Maintenance Ahead

Reliability centered maintenance of elevators – an introduction by Lakshmanan Raja Value: 1 contact hour (0.1 CEU) This article is approved for Continuing Education by NAEC for CET® and CAT®....

Sheridan Lifts Grants Maintenance Contract to Hospice

Manchester-based Sheridan Lifts has granted existing customer Bolton Hospice an on-site lift maintenance contract free of charge, committing to regularly review the company’s six lifts. Sheridan Lifts says the contract...

Vertical Sliding Door Maintenance

A guide to maintaining this Peelle equipment Value: 1 contact hour (0.1 CEU) This article is approved for Continuing Education by NAEC for CET® and CAT®. EW Continuing Education is...

Albuquerque Looks to Axe Elevator Inspection Program

Tim Keller, mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, sent legislation to the City Council that would axe the city’s US$167,000 elevator maintenance program, Albuquerque Journal reports. A city planning department spokesman observes that...

Oracle Elevator Announces New Parent Company Name

Oracle Elevator announced in July that its parent company has rebranded to Elevated Facility Services Group (EFS). In addition to Oracle, EFS supports several leading regional brands in the elevator...

Elevator Issues Close Texas Monument Observation Deck

The elevator and observation floor for the San Jacinto Monument, a 567.31-ft-high obelisk near Houston that looms over the battlefield where Sam Houston’s Texian army won Texas its independence back...