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Up peak analysis - assumes all people arrive at the ground floor, calculates handling capacity and interval |
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| Enhanced up peak analysis - like up peak, but you specify the target handling capacity |
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General analysis - people can arrive at any floor - calculate up peak, two way, basement service and more! |
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General analysis for double deck elevators – all traffic flows, but with double deck elevators |
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Simulation - models the whole process of people being transported by the elevators |
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Selection of control systems including conventional and destination dispatch |
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Use Elevate to implement, test and demonstrate your own dispatcher algorithms with simulation |
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Select Metric or U.S. (imperial) units |
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Building Data |
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Enter floor name and floor level, up to 100 floors served per group |
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Express zones |
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Elevator Data |
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Enter number of elevators, maximum 12 per group |
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Enter any capacity or select from standard sizes |
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Enter door times, or allow Elevate to choose automatically based on capacity |
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Enter any speed or select from standard speeds |
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Enter any acceleration and jerk rate or allow Elevate to choose based on speed |
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SELECT and SPECIFY features to help you analyse many different configurations in single run |
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Report options to automatically reject results that do not meet your criteria |
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Option for elevators in a group not to serve the same floors, e.g. basement service by only part of the group |
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Option for elevators to be specified individually, e.g. different sizes and speeds in the same group |
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Passenger Data |
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Enter passenger loading and unloading times |
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Enter passenger mass |
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Enter capacity factor |
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Enter length of simulation run |
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Enter stair factor |
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Enter floor population |
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Passengers may arrive at any floor |
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Passengers may arrive at ground (lowest) floor only |
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Option to mix traffic types, for example passengers, goods, porter with trolley |
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Option to change intensity of traffic by time of day |
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Tools to assist fast entry of common traffic flows |
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Option to provide Elevate with a list of passengers, and define each passenger individually |
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Printed Output |
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| Summary of data entered and results calculated - includes your job titles, company name and logo |
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Select toolbar button to transfer the data and results to Excel (if installed on your computer) |
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Maintenance and support |
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Support - telephone, fax and email support included from date of purchase for: |
1 year |
90 days |
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Maintenance - upgrades issued to the software provided at no additional charge, from date of purchase for: |
1 year |
90 days |
| Option to renew maintenance and support with Peters Research Ltd at end of free period |
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Option to purchase future upgrades from Elevator World |
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Available Formats |
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| Software and manual available for download from internet |
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Software provided on CD with printed manual |
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Activating Elevate |
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When you purchase, we provide a key to unlock the software on your computer (plugs into USB port) |
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| When you have purchased, we provide an unlocking code which unlocks the software on your computer |
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* indicates for up peak only