The 17th WORLD ELEVATOR & ESCALATOR EXPO 2026 will be held from May 20-23, 2026 at Conton Fair Complex in Guangzhou. Welcome new and old customers from all over the world to visit and communicate with others!
What is the IMS Software of Thyssenkrupp Elevator?
The IMS Software (version 2.7.13) is an elevator debugging tool, which is used for Thyssenkrupp elevators. This IMS software is divided into 16 bits and 32 bits. The 16 bits version is used for KOREA THYSSEN elevators (TAC50K), and the 32 bits is used for THYSSEN elevators (TAC50 and TAC20) in United States.
The 16th World Elevator & Escalator EXPO on 08-11 May 2024 in Shanghai
The 16th World Elevator & Escalator Expo, sponsored by China Elevator Association and China Center For International Economic And Technological Exchange, will be held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai) from May 8 to 11, 2024. The exhibition area will reach 110,000 square meters, with 1,100 exhibitors and 120,000 professional visitors expected.
Flash Memory 4.0 Debug Tool Used for Reading and Writing Program and Parameters of Mitsubishi Elevator KCD-1161D Board
As everyone knows, the Mitsubishi elevator MC card can be used for reading and writing program and parameters of Mitsubishi elevator control board, which likes KCD-1161D board. However, today ElevatorVIP will teach you how to use Flash Memory 4.0 debug tool to achieve it.
The 15th World Elevator & Escalator EXPO 2023 in Shanghai
World Elevator & Escalator EXPO2023 will be held on 5-8 July 2023 in National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). There are four exhibition galleries, and the total exhibition area is expected to be 150,000 square meters, with more than 1300 exhibitors and more than 130,000 professional visitors.
Exhibition will continue paying attention to the technological innovation, application and elevator safety. Gathering industry leader, industry elite, and well-known enterprises with the latest science and technology from industry, cutting-edge products, cooperation business opportunities and the industry point of view. World Elevator & Escalator EXPO will provide exhibitors and professional visitors a highly integrated professional and participation industry exchange feast! Thanks for your great support over the years!
World Elevator & Escalator EXPO 2023 conforms to the development of The Times and the needs of the elevator industry. World Elevator & Escalator EXPO 2023 will continue to set sail and present a wonderful experience!
Application Scenarios of KONE Elevator Group Control System (KGC)
The KGC (KONE Group Control) is a group control system of KONE elevator. The main equipment of the KGC is an industry-standard computer equipped with a special KONE board, which is capable of performing basic and advanced group control scheduling functions for groups of elevators (up to 8 elevators).
The functions are shown as follows:
1) Assign outgoing calls
2) Control DIN and DOP of DCS
3) Communicate with elevators in group control
4) Communicate with Elink
For reliability reasons, dual KGC systems can be configured, the one is acted as the Master and the other as the backup (Slave).
KGC should be equipped in the following cases:
1) When the number of elevators in a group exceeds six.
2) When the number of group elevators exceeds 4 and the floor exceeds 36 floors.
3) Groups more than 50 floors.
4) Use CPS A (centralized passenger service), CNV S (conference service), SGO (group control group) and other functions or use DCS control (DCS is the destination floor control system). Depending on the application, the KGC can be configured with up to three PC-CAN boards:
A. One PC-CAN board (XIA) for Group control (not DCS)
B. Two PC-CAN boards (XIA, and XIB) are used for DCS group control
C. The X2 is used to connect to the old monitor Elink4.
How to Realize Mitsubishi Elevator Voice Station Announcement Function with KCZ-910A Board?
Today, ElevatorVip wants to share a case for how to realize voice station announcement function of Mitsubishi elevator.
The project is from UAE, there is an old elevator has 3 floors: Grand floor, 1 floor, and 2 floor as the picture as below, now our customer wants to add the voice station announcement function.
Mitsubishi Elevator Voice Station Announcement Function, KCZ-910A, KCZ-910B, KCD-912B, Mitsubishi Elevator Spare Parts in UAE
First, the elevator should be added a new announcement board (KCZ-910A, or KCZ-910B), and meanwhile, the potentiometer of announcement board should be set in English language. The setting procedure is (OP=’1’ and MODE=’A’) as below picture.
Second, the motherboard of elevator KCD-912B board should be added a new program (station announcement voice), for example: broadcast: Grand floor, First floor, or Second floor, etc. The program needs to be customized, if you don’t know how to do, please ask ElevatorVip.
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How to Set Master-slave Elevator (Parallel Elevator) for Monarch System?
If you want to set two elevators are working together, which is meaning of master-slave elevator. Please follow the steps as below:
Step-1: Tow Monarch Control Boards (master elevator and salve elevator) should be connected together by DB9 cable (please use the 232 interface on the board to connect, which is circled by red line on the photo).
Step-2: Check two Monarch control boards are connected in parallel by 232 monitoring interfaces. Set the parameters of board in the master board and slave board as below:
Master board: F6-07=’2’, F6-08=’1’, and set value of F6-09 bit2 to ‘1’
Slave board: F6-07=’2’, F6-08=’2’, F6-09=’4’
Noted: Do not forget to set parallel address jumper to ‘off’, which is on the car roof (MCTC-CTB-A) board of slave elevator
How is the Monarch MCTC-MCB-K1 Board Replaced by MCTC-MCB-C3-NIP?
As we all know the MCTC-MCB-K1 board is based on Monarch NICE3000 system. It was very popular all over the world by customer for many years. But due to product iteration, the MCTC-MCB-K1 board was stopped for many years. Now, it is NICE3000+ system, but if the MCTC-MCB-K1 board was broken, the users will face serious challenges.
MCTC-MCB-K1
We have a regular customer who is from Dubai, who is also facing the same problem, the MCTC-MCB-K1 board was broken, and the elevator was stopped at the jobsite. He asked ElevatorVip whether there has a solution. Sure, we will use MCTC-MCB-C3 board with MCTC-PG-A2 card to replace MCTC-MCB-K1 board.
MCTC-MCB-C3-NIP
If you are facing the same problem, please just contact ElevatorVip.
How Does the Monarch MCTC-MCB-C2 Board Replace the Asynchronous MCTC-MCB-B Board?
Due to MCTC-MCB-B board has been out of production for many years, therefore, it is used or refurbished MCTC-MCB-B board in the market. But as you know, used or refurbished will have a much shorter service life. And many elevators spare parts agents want to supply 100% new original parts to their customers.
MCTC-MCB-B,
To sum up, based on many years of rich elevator maintenance experience, ElevatorVip provides a new solution case that we can use MCTC-MCB-C2 board to replace MCTC-MCB-B board for synchronous elevator; At the same time, we also provide another solution case for asynchronous elevator, we will use MCTC-MCB-C2 board with MCTC-PG-A2 card to replace asynchronous MCTC-MCB-B board, but it needs a Monarch special service tool, yes, we also will provide it for you. Thank you!
MCTC-MCB-C2 Board