Predictive Maintenance for Elevator Mechanics with KONE

KONE helps more than 1 billion people move in and between buildings daily, in the smoothest and safest way. KONE’s global maintenance base of around 1.3 million units is crucial for cities and buildings to enable people and businesses live their daily lives.  

KONE’s customers include construction companies, builders and developers. The customers, as well as the end-users increasingly expect safety, transparency and predictability from their equipment. In addition, continued urbanization and rapid change in technology generates opportunities to develop cutting edge solutions to ensure efficient flow of urban life. 

The key to succeed in exceeding the rising expectations and demands is to improve the customer experience and reduce wear and tear, before bigger problems develop. Do you have a solution that helps us to improve the customer experience and analysis of our elevators? Keep reading below for more information.

The smooth and safe movement of elevator cabins is enabled by elevator mechanics. KONE elevators are made to  measure and include hundreds of different mechanical parts designed to bear strain and use. These elevator mechanics, such as rotating pulleys with bearings, sliding elements for guiding the elevator cabin and reeved steel rope enabling the hoisting of the elevator cabin, are usually located in the elevator shaft or machine room, hidden from the end-users.

Regular maintenance visits by professional KONE mechanics are at an utmost importance for the safety and longevity of our customer’s equipment. We are looking for partners that help us improve the experience, through mechanical component fault detection and dysfunction. This can be achieved e.g. by predicting the lifetime and service need of our elevator mechanical components with a solution that combines both hardware and software. However, the solution is not restricted to any certain technology. You can find a few examples below.