Issue 5/2008
09/02/08
Category: Issue 5/2008
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What you should know about business culture in India
Dr. Ursina Böhm
“... If you wish to know something about India, you must empty your mind of all preconceived notions. Why be imprisoned by the limited vision of the prejudiced? Don‘t try to compare. India is different and, exasperating as it may seem, would like to remain so. This is the secret of India, the acceptance of life in all its fullness ...”
Indira Gandhi
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09/02/08
Category: Issue 5/2008
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Barthel, Thomas; Scheunemann, Wolfgang; Vogel, Wolfram
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5/2008
09/02/08
Category: Issue 5/2008
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Supplementary elevator controls used in the event of a fire
Ilse Klink
There is considerable interest in improving the provisions made for handicapped persons to exit, without assistance, an area affected by a fire. The idea is that elevators that have not yet been affected by the fire be kept in service for a longer period of time so that they can be used by this group of passengers. This will make it necessary to augment or modify the conventional fire-mode concepts implemented in elevator control systems.
What’s behind this endeavor is the assumption that any potentially injurious fire – insofar as fires can occur at all in an underground rail system – will usually break out in the rail cars themselves. The elevators need not be directly and immediately endangered by that event and thus can remain in service for a certain period of time.
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5/2008
09/02/08
Category: Issue 5/2008
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Demanding lift technology at the BMW “World of Experience”
Werner Beck
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5/2008
09/02/08
Category: Issue 5/2008
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Schaefer GmbH, located in Sigmaringen, is supplying the Lift System used in the expansion of Vienna’s U2 subway line. The city of Vienna and the national government are sinking a total of 1.85 billion euros into the fourth expansion stage for the Vienna subway system, sharing the costs on a 50:50 basis. The underground network will be extended by about 14 kilometers in this fourth expansion stage. Realization is in three steps.
Vienna operates five subway lines with track length of 75 kilometers.
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