Articles

The EFESME Articles are sectoral articles whose aim is to inform the reader, whether he/she is an expert in the sector or not, of the most recent changes in the lift sector.
Our articles are written by our experts and our members, in order to guarantee a high level of quality and deepening of the various issues.

SBS articles written by the EFESME experts

Some of these articles are one of the most important tasks that EFESME and our experts develop each year within the SBS Call. The topics covered in these articles range from very technical aspects to more political content, always within the scope of standardization, thanks to the collaboration with our partner SBS – Small Business Standards

2020 SBS Call

• January ’21 – Brexit and the new UKCA marking in the lift sector
• December – Workplace safety in the Italian lift industry – past, present and future
• December – Reflections on risk analysis in the lift sector
• November – The new standard ISO 8100-32:2020 – Planning and selection of passenger lifts to be installed in office, hotel and residential buildings
• July – Dealing with platforms not compliant with the Machinery Directive

2019 SBS Call

• December – Are “Lifting Platforms” becoming more and more popular, and can they still be safe?
• November – Standardisation, IoT, and the potentialities for the lift industry
• September – The ongoing revision of all CEN Safety Standards for lifts
• June – Development, regression and further evolution of lift safety standards
• April – The incoming new revision of EN 13015 and the essential requirements
• February – Harmonisation of European lifts standards: a rough process

2018 SBS Call

• December – Lifts and the Eco-design Directive: Second phase and Updates
• November – Implementing standards: Tracing systems for safety components monitoring
• October – Improving safety of existing lifts: prEN 81-80 is ready for formal vote
• June – Making Safety Standards for Lifts “Global”
• May – Standing point of the EC Mandate M/549 to CEN
• March – Lifts and the Eco-design Directive

2017 SBS Call

• December/January 2018 – IoT for lifts: ETSI Smart M2M and the benefits for the maintenance services
• December – The voice of lift SMEs in the standardisation bodies
• September – EN 81-20 and EN 81-50 become the only applicable standards for lift design
• July – Contribution of lifts to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions: a legal framework
• April – ETSI: an overview on the information and communication technologies standards
• February – The New Standardisation Request for Lifts

EFESME articles

Our experts writes technical and political articles to shed light on more general, important and complicated issues that are fundamental for the sector.

EFESME regularly writes articles for its official gazette, ELEVATOR WORLD Europe, and collaborates with its members to write on national magazines.

ANACAM

Sviluppo Impresa #1 – 2020 (in Italian)

https://www.anacam.it/news-ed-eventi/sviluppo-impresa-blog/1390-numero-1-2020.html

• SBS Expert Meeting: una nuova occasione per i nostri esperti per discutere di standardizzazione
• EFESME all’Assemblea VmA 2020

Sviluppo Impresa #2 – 2020 (in Italian)

https://www.anacam.it/news-ed-eventi/sviluppo-impresa-blog/1424-numero-2-2020.html

• COVID-19: EFESME ha sviluppato delle linee guida settoriali per intervenire in sicurezza sugli impianti
• EFESME Digital Working Group: digitalizzazione e COVID-19
• Efesme Expert Meeting, il primo incontro dell’anno online
• Prima sessione pubblica durante l’Assemblea Generale
   

Anacam Magazine #4 – 2020 (in Italian and English)

https://www.anacam.it/news-ed-eventi/anacam-magazine.html

• Digitalizzazione, la normazione a livello europeo e internazionale / Digitization, standardisation at European and international level
• Una grande opportunità per il settore ascensoristico / A great opportunity for the lift industry
• Il nuovo standard ISO 8100-32:2020 / The new standard ISO 8100-32:2020

ELECTROLOGOS 

Number 331 (in Greek)

https://www.electrologos.gr/#No-331-32

• The situation in the elevator industry, according to EFESME, the observatory of excellence of small and medium enterprises

ELEVATOR WORLD Europe 

https://elevatorworld.eu/magazine/

July – August 2020 issue
(in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish)

• EFESME and ANACAM Partner

January – February 2021 issue
(in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish)