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December 2018

SBS News

2019 sectoral approach

Following the decision of the

SBS Board of Directors on

September 26th, EFESME was

awarded the call for proposals

for the SBS sectoral approach

for the lift sector. For the third

year, our Federation will

undertake on behalf of SBS ad

hoc actions aimed at enforcing

the representation of lift SMEs

in the standardisation process,

as well as representing SBS in

the relevant technical groups

other than CEN and ISO.

With the 2019 proposal,

EFESME intends to consolidate

the positive work started in

2017, when the sectoral

approach on lifts has been

established. The whole SBS

project, including the sectoral

approach, has recently

received positive remarks on

occasion of the management

meeting held between the

consortium members and the

European Commission.

The Secretariat will keep you

informed on the activities

through the newsletter and the

publications on our webpage

and the social media.

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We wish you Happy Holidays

and a prosperous New Year!

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December 2018

European Lift Congress - Heilbronn

This year, the European Lift

Congress Heilbronn 2018

took place in Villingen,

Germany, on October 16th-

17th. Representing EFESME

was one of our experts, Mr

Giuseppe Iotti, author of the

summary below.

Elevators are progressively

becoming a part of the cities’

"logistics"- they are inside

the buildings, but they are

a l so co nne c t ed w i t h

horizontal and/or inclined

public mobility systems.

The issues dealt with during

this year's edition have

therefore been inter -

disciplinary, concerning both

the regulations and the most

advanced technologies. These

expert i ses a re today

particularly influenced by

digitization, by robotization

and its connections with the

"cloud" (also known as

Industry 4.0), and by the

growing connections between

interacting components

( In t e rne t o f Th i ngs ,

abbreviated in IoT).

The main topics, then, were

preventive maintenance,

control of passenger and

material flows to, inside and

from buildings, and the use

of virtual reality techniques.

These technologies are being

developed by elevators and

e l evat o r s componen t s

m a n u f a c t u r e r s , a n d ,

consequently, a large amount

of data must be processed.

We can see here the theme

of "big data" and their

problematic management -

Will such management of

data be as safe as traditional

technologies, and how will it

work? The attention to the

issue of information security

was one of the main topic of

the conference.

Coming to the specifically

elevator-building techniques,

during the conference new

plant traction philosophies

have been discussed, in

particular those that will not

use suspension means,

which, in one way or another,

have always been present

from the invention of Otis

until nowadays.

Hence, in this context

ThyssenKrupp Elevator seized

the opportunity to illustrate

both in theory and in practice

its innovative concept of

construction of light cabins;

these cabins can travel not

only in the vertical direction,

but also horizontal, thanks to

a magnetic field traction. This

concept has been shown in

practice during a whole

afternoon spent by the

congress participants in the

test tower built by the

German company in the

nearby city of Rottweil.

In add i t i on t o th i s

experimental installation, the

tower houses a series of

TWIN plants, which are

already a commercial reality.

(continues)

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*NB-L: Mr Luciano Faletto will participate to the Working Group Lifts on 22nd-23rd of January in Koln, Germany.

*ISO: Mr Luciano Faletto will partecipate to the Task Force Convergence of the ISO TC 178/WG4 on the 29th-31st January in Irvine, Califronia.

*CEN: Mr Luciano Faletto will partecipate to the AH of the CEN TC10 on the 29th-31st January in Irvine, Califronia.

*Lifts Working Group: Mr Luca Incoronato and Mr Giuseppe Iotti will partecipate to the WG meeting on the 1st of February.

*CEN: Mr Tiziano

Caresani will participate to the CEN/TC10/WG13 on the 12th-13th February.

*UNI: Mr Luciano Faletto and Mr Ivan Ferrarini will participate to the UNI meeting on the 28th of February, in Milan, Italy.

Upcoming

meetings 2019

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This solution consists, as

already known to the market,

in two cabins travelling

vertically in the same well,

suspended with ropes at two

different machines, one set

over the other.

These demonstrations took

p l ace i n a rea l i s t i c

environment, being the tower

245 meters high, thus

simulating a real skyscraper

from the point of view of

elevator motion and number

of stops.

Vlillingen proved to be a

welcoming place for congress

participants, who were

offered a perfect gala dinner,

and this was also a useful

moment to exchange

opinions and experiences

between the participants and

the speakers. Indeed, these

speakers represent the best

the elevator world offers

today for what concerns

experts in the field; they

work both in large companies

and in those realities dealing

with consultation and security

checks, as well as in the

associative world.

This latter sector includes

EFESME, which I had the

honour to represent in this

important pro fessiona l

environment.

Giuseppe Iotti

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The EFESME Secretariat will be on Christmas holiday from December 24th to

January 1st included.

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SBS Lift Forum on Digitalisation Lifts reaching the Cloud

On December 18th, EFESME

organised the SBS Lift Forum

on Digitalisation, in the

framework of the 2018 SBS

sectoral approach. Its’ also

the second forum of this

kind, after the successful first

edition last year, when the

agenda was focused on

standardisation itself. This

year event, moderated by Mr

Eugenio Quinteri from EBC -

E u r o p e a n B u i l d e r s

Confederation, gathered

experts, both from the

European Commission and

for the lift sector, national

stakeholders and members of

different organization.

After the welcoming address

by Mrs Christel Davidson,

SBS Director, and Mr

Massimo Bezzi, EFESME

President, the first of the two

sessions of the day, more

purely focused on the

Digitalisation, began with the

presentation of Mr Luis Carlos

Busquets, Policy Officer at

the European Commission,

DG CONNECT, Unit E3 (Cloud

and Software). Mr Busquets

presented the Cloud Policies

of the European Union,

underlining the importance

and potential of the free flow

of data and of the Cloud

s y s t e m i n r e s e a r c h

programmes.

The first session continued

with Mr Véronique Willems,

S M E U n i t e d S e c r e t a r y

General, who spoke about

the digital transformation for

SMEs, the challenges that

this process poses to small

and medium-sized European

companies, and which might

be the best approaches in

this regards. Mrs Willems

also made available to our

guests an valuable SMEUnites

position paper on digitization.

Fo l lowing SMEUni ted ’s

presentation, the forum went

more into details with Mr

Vesa Katajisto, Policy Officer

at the European Commission,

DG GROW, Un i t C3

(Advanced Engineering and

Manufacturing Systems).

equipment registration.

(continues)

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Mr Katajisto, who is the EC

contact point for SMEs for

what concerns the Lift

Directive and the Lift sector,

explained the Commission

Standardisation Request

M/549 to CEN, its and its

Annex.

The second session, on the

other hand, saw two

presentation, one from Mr

José María Compagni and the

other from Mr Luciano

Faletto.

Our first speaker, Mr

Compagni, is Academic

Director at Docensas,

associate professor at IE

University, as well as

Coordinator of FEPYMA, the

Spanish federation of SMEs of

elevators, has a long and

valuable experience in the lift

sector. He decided to focus

his presentation on the

Spanish national register,

introducing our guests to the

two Spanish lift registers: the

Public register of elevator

companies and the elevator

equipment registration. The

data concerning lifts available

in these registers are

submitted by electronic

means, hence underlining

again the growing importance

and potential of Digitalisation

for the lift sector.

Finally, Mr Luciano Faletto,

EFESME Secretary General

and ISO expert, showed the

importance of shared and

available instruction for use,

presenting as a poignant

example of the lack of shared

standards the disastrous

consequences of the 1904

Baltimore fire, which led to a

nation-wide standardisation

of firefighters equipment

around the United States.

This example served Mr

Faletto to introduce the topic,

and to underline the need of

instruction for use and how

to improve their availability.

After the end of the

presentations, which are

already available on the

EFESME website, the Q&A

session offered positive

inputs for reflection, which

were used by the speakers to

go more in detail on certain

topics.

EFESME and SBS thank all

speakers and participants

and invite all interested

people to the 2019 edition of

the SBS Lift Forum.

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