Elevator modernization ensures safety, reliability

October, 2012 – Cape and Plymouth Business – by Curt McClay

Elevators are such a common piece of technology in our day-to-day life that we hardly even notice them anymore. Many of the elevators we use every day have been in service for decades. This doesn’t seem unusual until you think about how far technology has advanced in just the last 20 years. In 1992, the Internet was still an experiment being used by only a select few. Your cell phone couldn’t send text messages. And in 1992, your elevator controller was using relay logic instead of microprocessors and DC motor generators instead of AC variable voltage variable frequency motors. (read more)

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