Intelligent solutions save time and personnel

Products, especially components in the lift, are subject to constantly changing market circumstances. The changed market needs bring interesting new solutions to the market.

The new features and projects, which improve assembly, operation and troubleshooting in components, can be found across all suppliers.

The lift market is undergoing change. The headlong development of electronic components in the complete system lift offers a fascinating insight into the future. Intelligent components are increasingly assuming the status evaluation of lifts and providing more and more accurate predictions on the failure probability of individual components.

Maintenance intervals are decreasing and deployments on the lifts are triggered by the lift itself. This represents an opportunity for maintenance companies to counteract the shortage of skilled labour and take care of more lifts with the same personnel.

Usability will be decisive

This is because the shortage of personnel shows that it is becoming increasingly important to save time in assembly and start-up in order to be able to process the flood of orders. Experience in support also shows that ever more lateral entrants are working in the sector. This makes it clear that plug and play, just like usability, will increasingly become a decisive criterion in products or components.

"Meiller Aufzugtüren, like other component manufacturers, is in the same boat and constantly analyses the market to make products even more customer-friendly," explained the company from Munich. "A product already exists with all of the characteristics for continuous improvements in the form of the MiDrive door controller."

Start-up: procedure eliminated

Operation via a smartphone app provides flexibility for future expansions and the option to adopt new features directly in the controller. Updates can be drawn directly from the Meiller server via the Internet connection available in the smartphone and in this way all improvements transferred to the existing devices.

Start-up of a new door requires a lot of time and knowledge on the part of fitters. Meiller wants to simplify start-up for personnel by creating an appropriate configuration for the doors upon ordering. It is available on site via a glued-on QR code.

The configuration is already saved before delivery in the memory of the drive motor to ensure that merely a lengthy push of the button on the controller suffices to supply the doors with all product-specific parameters. As a result, the start-up procedure is eliminated in new doors and the lift can be assembled faster.

Monitoring of running characteristics

Providing support employees with data from the controller is possible via the remote support function in the operating app of the MiDrive. This makes targeted analysis of fault conditions possible, which saves time in correcting the faults. Thanks to an optimal CANopen Lift connection, sporadic conditions can even be assigned to individual floors.

In addition, CANopen Lift permits reading out and analysing door-specific data. Consequently, the running characteristics of the individual car and landing doors can be monitored and transmitted directly to the operator or maintenance company via gateways. This facilitates reacting faster, which is often possible before a lift breaks down, since deteriorations usually occur gradually.

Results

"All of these measures have a very positive effect in practice," according to the observations of Meiller. The number of support requests was continuously declining, support deployments on site were hardly necessary anymore and problems in the lift were corrected faster and more efficiently, according to the door manufacturer. "Measures to simplify operation and save time have been eagerly accepted on the market and help companies to work more efficiently."

More information: meiller-aufzugtueren.de