Question Are the requirements of the Lift Directive being met? Answer Use LIFTpro®.
As an installer who has purchased a ready made kit from a
“design and ship” supplier you adopt the design when you put on the CE
marking. How do you know the calculations in the box are correct?
As a consultant how do you check the installer´s design calculations?
Many installers and consultants will have spreadsheets and computer
programs, which carry out the validation. Tedious isn´t it. Entering
all the data several times. And if you “borrowed” the software you
wonder whether it is correct. Then you have a Quality Assurance visit and must show provenance.
Now you can put all this behind you. Use LIFTpro®
developed by and for examiners to validate, commission and test lifts
to Annex XIII of Lift Directive (Schedule 12 of the Lifts Regulations:
1997). Not only this, but full documentation is generated for the
Technical Dossier.
Register and download a trial copy of the software and the manual that goes with it from this website.
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 THE design,
validation and testing program for the installation of lifts to satisfy the European
Lift Directive and the UK Lifts Regulations: 1997
The annexes to the Lift Directive (95/16/EC) give details of the
processes required when lifts are to be put into service. A lift complying with the European standards
EN 81-1: 1998 or EN 81-2: 1998 is deemed to meet the Essential Health and
Safety Requirements (EHSRs) of the Lift Directive.
Technical compliance
to these criteria has opened up an innovative market. This has lead to a
multitude of solutions that are subject to varying evaluations. In order to
support these endeavours and to create uniform criteria, LIFTpro has been created that supports the common goals of the lift
industry, which is to:
- produce high quality lifts, free of defects, before putting them into service
- provide an integrated, reliable system
- guarantee compliance with the Lift Directive
- increase customer satisfaction
- strengthen the company’s reputation in comparison to its competitors
- lower costs and improve time efficiency
allows lift installers, who have an approved quality assurance
system (and thus satisfying Annex XIII of the Lift Directive) to place their
lifts onto the market and self certify their compliance to the EHSRs of the
Lift Directive.
LIFTpro also allows inspectors, consultants and others to check and
certify lift designs.
- assures that
each test is carried out in a standardized, comparable and reproducible way and
records comprehensive data of the results, which are easily accessible.
- supports the lift
installer during the design phase with calculations of the overall mechanical design,
equipment dimensions, final inspection proformas and the compilation of all the
necessary documentation.
- examines lifts that require individual testing in accordance with Annex
X of the Lift Directive (Schedule 9 of
the Lift Regulations) and
type-approved lifts that require a final inspection in accordance with Annex VI
of the Lift Directive (Schedule 6 of the Lift
Regulations).
- processes and
performs calculations for lifts with both traction and hydraulic drives.
LIFTpro contains has many databases that integrate the necessary data of all
safety-relevant and other components. It allows for additional data to be added
and keeps the input data ready for access at all times. In addition, the system
can automatically recognize the data.
LIFTpro
is designed as an independent Windows program and can be used by a single user
or by multiple users in a network environment. The software is
modular in structure.
The
initial module checks if all relevant lift safety components and building
safety components are properly specified. The checks and calculations apply to
both the mechanical and electrical components. The necessary quality documents
are generated automatically and can be accessed without further processing. An inspection
module provides lists containing all the necessary data from the design, test
instructions and test stages. These documents
can be completed on site and compared with the data in the program. LIFTpro then compiles the final acceptance report, and provided the inspection
reveals no problems, a certificate of conformity or a final acceptance
certificate is generated. The results
from the mechanical and electrical preliminary tests, the final inspection, the
operator and manufacturer data and the EC certificate of conformity, or final
acceptance certificate, are generated automatically and require no further inputs. The Final Report (in PAS 32 format) can then be
automatically issued and completed without any further action.
The UK market can benefit from the
use of this program with cost reduction, increased profits, efficient lift
testing and substantial time savings, as the result of a standardised test
procedure and reporting structure.
LIFTpro “Software for Examination and Verification Testing
of Lifts”
was founded in mid-2003 by Dipl.-Ing. Wolf-Ruediger Ehry to produce the most
comprehensive testing program for the placing of lifts on the market. The
extremely high standard of the content and user-friendliness of this product is
the result of specialized knowledge gained by the proprietor through more than
20 years as a tester and software developer.
LIFTpro, Software for Examination, Verification and Testing
of Lifts, Wiesenweg 24, 29323 Wietze, Germany, www.liftpro.eu
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