Technology
A Composite Future?
Newly formed entity Pronus is betting the lift industry will benefit from lightweight, strong, corrosion-resistant technology. Pronus, a Hong Kong-registered company, was formed this year by the owners of Sakura...
BIM Up Your Elevator
Building information modeling will reach all of us in the elevator industry in the near future. Building information modeling (BIM) is a method to optimize the planning, implementation and management...
Streamlined
Quality Elevator has gone paperless, and management, employees and customers couldn’t be happier. It’s no secret that elevator people, independents in particular, love paper – handwritten bills, work orders, etc....
IoT and Elevators
Four considerations for moving forward by Sanjay Kamani and Jonathan Tombes Technology buzzwords come and go. But every now and then, one sticks. Take the Internet of Things (IoT). Fifteen...
Wire Rope Tension
Importance, measurement and maintenance are addressed. Since the invention of elevators with multiple ropes, equal rope tension has always been important to the proper operation and safety of an elevator....
Let There Be Light
The evolution of Columbia’s elevator light curtain Virtually everyone who has ridden an elevator over the past several decades knows the feeling of his or her person, children, pets and/or...
The Articulated Funiculator: An Update
“Next-generation” system stands to decrease the total number of vertical-transportation units in tall buildings by 40%, is proposed for application in major projects. by Fritz King, Lars Hesselgren, Peter Severin,...
An Instrument for Testing Elevator Balance Coefficient without Load
A device to aid the quick and accurate inspection of elevators is detailed. by Lei Chen, Yihui Ruan, Yuandong Jiang and Qufei Zheng With the development of society, the elevator...
Fastest Elevator – A Competition in High Technology
How the speed and height races in the elevator and construction industries have contributed to the solutions of many problems and predetermined the mile-high building. During the past two decades,...
Wireless/Cellular Elevator Emergency Telephone Technology
Applying European technology can simplify a convoluted process that often causes headaches in the U.S. submitted by JSG Elevator Consultants In terms of service to elevators, the number of existing...
