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Photo: © Meiller Aufzugtüren

News | September 2020

Inclined lift doors: new solution

Meiller has developed a new solution for the landing doors of inclined lifts: the so-called “active” landing door.

Photo: © Hundt Consult

News | September 2020

Wüllner moving to Hundt Consult

The qualified industrial engineer Alexander Wüllner has been a member of the management board at Hundt Consult for some time.

Photo: © BlueKit

News | September 2020

When is fail-safe really fail-safe?

Fail-safe systems exist in many industrial sectors. However, there are no suitable standards in shaft smoke extraction. If there is a power failure, the ventilation flap has to open. But there are also other error sources…

Photo: © Ziehl-Abegg

News | September 2020

CANopen Lift car drive units

If you design lifts using devices from different manufacturers, interoperability is essential. This keeps effort low when integrating third-party products. Especially, standardized interfaces for car drive units would help.

Photo: © Ulrike Lotze

News | September 2020

Euro-Lift postponed

Euro-Lift 2020 has now also postponed its event date. The elevator trade fair was originally scheduled to take place in Kielce, Poland, from October 14 to 15.

Photo: © Otis GmbH & Co. OHG

News | September 2020

“Enhance safety with innovations”

It all began with the invention of the crash-safe lift. Ever since the foundation of Otis in 1853, safety has come first.

Photo: © Arnolds

News | August 2020

Arnolds to retire

Klaus Arnolds is retiring. The first technician of the Westdeutsche Runfunk broadcaster was one of the co-founders of the LIFTjournal and was a member of its advisory board from the start.

News | August 2020

CiA board of directors re-elected

The members of the nonprofit international CAN in Automation (CiA) users’ and manufacturers’ association re-elected the board of directors as well as the members of the CiA business committee and the CiA technical committee.