Elevator Maintenance – Ensuring Long-term Efficiency and Safety
Know Your Elevator Series 12 Elevator Maintenance – Ensuring Long-term Efficiency and Safety While we’ve explored every aspect of elevators and their installation, maintenance is the key to ensuring the longevity, safety, and smooth operation of your elevator system. Just like any critical system in life, regular upkeep is not a luxury but a necessity. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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: […]
If Stuck in Elevator
Know Your Elevator Series 4 If Stuck in Elevator Till now, we covered the myths of elevator safeties, the door, door systems and basic safeties of an elevator. In this blog we will understand on other parts of the elevator and their functions. In this blog we will understand, when a passenger gets stuck in […]
Basic Safety in Elevators
Know Your Elevator Series 3 Basic Safety in Elevators In the introduction blog, we spoke on myths or perceptions of fear one may have when travelling in an elevator. Why not have some understanding on the basic safeties included in a typical elevator? Electromechanical safety comes into action whenever one of the elevator ropes slackens […]
