Preparing for Elevator Installation
Know Your Elevator Series 11 Preparing for Elevator Installation Elevator installation is often perceived as a straightforward task. However, it is, in fact, a comprehensive project that requires meticulous preparation. In this blog, we discuss the critical prerequisites on the civil and electrical fronts that set the stage for smooth elevator installation. These preparatory works, […]
Home Elevators
Know Your Elevator Series 10 Home Elevators In our earlier blogs, we delved into various facets of elevators, including safety features, components, and the significance of meticulous elevator planning. This edition shifts the focus to Home Elevators, a niche category with distinctive features and applications compared to standard elevators. Let’s explore what sets them apart. […]
Understanding Building Types and Their Elevator Needs
Know Your Elevator Series 9 Understanding Building Types and Their Elevator Needs In Series 8, we discussed key design considerations for elevator systems. However, a crucial precursor to this is understanding the types of buildings and their unique elevator requirements. Below is a brief overview: Office Buildings In office buildings, peak traffic occurs just before […]
Key Factors Impacting Elevator System Design
Know Your Elevator Series 8 Key Factors Impacting Elevator System Design In our previous posts, we explored the fundamentals of traffic analysis and how the evolution of buildings reaching for the skies has shaped elevator design. In this series, we’ll focus on the critical design considerations that come into play when planning an elevator system. […]
Strategic Planning
Driving Innovation through effecting management blog Series 5 Strategic planning Strategic planning is a process undertaken by organizations to define their direction and make decisions on allocating resources to pursue their objectives effectively. It is important for any organization to have a 3 – 5 year strategy plan in place, which can be called a […]
Traffic Analysis
Know Your Elevator Series 7 Traffic Analysis This series we will cover the subject of traffic analysis which has a single-point agenda of optimizing the operation of a group of elevators installed in a commercial or residential building, In the early eighties the concept of group operation had just started in India in commercial buildings. […]
Inner Leadership
Series 4 Inner Leadership Let me start with a story about a lecture I had to deliver at a well-known Management School in Mumbai to a batch of final-year management students. It so happened, that they had attended and heard a renowned inspirational person Jaggi Vasudeo, whose philosophy of Inner Engineering is quite known to […]
Types of electric traction elevators
Know Your Elevator Series 6 Types of electric traction elevators Know Your Elevator Series 6 Types of electric traction elevators In this blog, we will give you information on types of electric traction elevators, their capacities & speeds, applications, etc The main two types of elevators are machine room less and machine room elevators. Comparison […]
Impact of a bad boss on an organisation
Series 3 Impact of a bad boss on an organisation It is a known fact that 50% of attrition in any organisation is due to the boss. A bad boss can wreak havoc on people and businesses. Each one can cost us our health and happiness, as well as the company he or she works […]
Brain of the Elevator!!! The Controller
Know Your Elevator Series 5 Brain of the Elevator!!! The Controller This blog is dedicated to what I can call the brain of an elevator, and this is the controller. Controller must be designed to handle all aspects of the elevator, like safety, operation, levelling accuracy, ride quality etc Here’s an overview of their functions: […]
