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The electronic MCP is a new way to survey, manage and create a Maintenance Control Program for all units under your control. Using a web-based maintenance management system, data such as age, use and environment is gathered from your specific unit and analyzed to automatically generate an annual MCP.
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TOSHIBA SHIFTS FOCUS FROM SPEED TO CAPACITY
With elevators theoretically reaching their maximum possible speeds, Toshiba Elevator is shifting its focus to capacity, the Nikkei Asian Review reports. From 2004 until this year, Toshiba held the world's fastest elevator title with a pair of 1,010-mpm elevators in Taipei 101. Toshiba has already developed a lift with a 75-person capacity that operates in the Izumi Garden Tower in Tokyo. It aims to develop units capable of carrying 100 people. R&D will be conducted at Toshiba's western Tokyo facility.
CIBSE LIFTS GROUP ANNUAL SEMINAR PLANNED NOVEMBER 2
The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Lifts Group Annual Seminar is planned on November 2 at CIBSE headquarters, 222 Balham High Road, London. The exhibition opens at noon, registration is at 1 and the seminar runs from 1:30-5. Speakers include Jonathan Beebe; Dominic Dawson; Phil Harley, Celia Harrison and Paul Stoneman of the London Underground; Peter Sumner of WSP Group U.K. and John Trett of CE Electronics. Topics include escalator safety, evacuation, the Internet of Things, Lift Operations and Lift Equipment Regulations and hearing loops.
INDIAN CITY GREENLIGHTS ELEVATORS FOR LOWRISE HOUSING
Responding to residents' demands, authorities in Noida, India, have OK'd elevators in older housing complexes shorter than 15 m, including three-story buildings, The Hindu reports. As long as at least 50% of residents approve, there is space for the lift, no objection from the fire department and a structural safety permit is obtained, building owners may proceed with installation. The move is expected to benefit approximately 40,000 residents of 35 complexes built in the 1980s and 1990s.
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