Technology
Rope Application, Installation and Maintenance
The challenge of maintaining elevator ropes is best met by a step-by-step process. The performance (life or service time) of elevator ropes is a very significant maintenance concern for elevator-maintenance...
Providing Secondary Protection from Traction Elevator Brake Slippage
One of the most dangerous things that can happen with traction elevators is shearing due to a brake slip. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most difficult to prevent,...
Integrated Control Solution Provides Many Advantages
Elevator control technology has come a long way since the days of the earliest Ward Leonard control system. The lift engineer’s work has only become more complicated as attention is...
Schindler Has High Hopes for New Solar Elevator
Schindler officials hope that a solar-powered elevator inspired by the much-ballyhooed, zero-fuel Solar Impulse plane on which it is a partner (ELEVATOR WORLD, September 2011) will become popular among customers...
Customized Displays Heighten User Experience
Just over a decade ago, lifts had seven basic position indicators, where one had to really focus to read the lift position. Then came the era of dot-matrix displays with...
Schindler Presents PORT to Argentina
Schindler gathered a group of the country’s building-industry professionals to punctuate the launch of its new product there. The presentation of Schindler’s Personal Occupant Requirement Terminal (PORT) technology in Argentina...
Articulated Funiculator: The Sky Subway
by Fritz King, Mats Lundström, Sirpa Salovaara and Peter Severin As building heights increase, so do the number of lifts, lift shafts, associated energy usage and passenger wait and travel...
The Development of an AMD for Elevators
by Liu Yingjie, Wu Xingjun, Wang Weixiong, Wang Xinhua, Lin Chuanglu and Song Yuechao Elevator safety is drawing more and more attention from elevator technicians. Devices to monitor the state...
Intelligent Transit in Modern Buildings
Modern buildings impact the balance of an urban environment and represent one of the most important mediums in drawing public attention and epitomizing citizens’ pride in their cities. They represent...
Relationship between Escalator Accident Frequency and Commuter Pattern
by William Wing-hong Lam and Eric Wai-ming, Lee This paper was presented at USA 2012, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology...
