From the elevator to the late life, where is the replacement

After the main components of the elevator have exceeded the service life, they can be used continuously through renovation.

    Elevators belong to special equipment. At present, there are 6.28 million elevators in use in China. The quantity and annual sales volume are the largest in the world. Therefore, ensuring the safe operation of elevators is also one of the top tasks of our General Administration of Market Supervision. The service life of the elevator is closely related to the management and maintenance of the later stage. If it is properly maintained, it can be used normally for 20 years or 30 years. Even if the main parts exceed the service life, it can be used continuously through renovation and modification, and it is updated in regulations and systems. The modified elevator is equivalent to becoming a new elevator. Of course, the use of equipment for more than 15 years is gradually aging, and security issues are more concerned by all parties.
    Market regulators have always focused on ensuring safety, especially the safety of older elevators. First, to improve the requirements of safety standards, strict inspection of the manufacture, installation, maintenance, maintenance, etc. of elevators, especially to increase the frequency of inspections of old elevators, and timely rectification of hidden dangers. The second is to promote the fund channel for the smooth renovation of the elevator, how to raise funds for the old elevator renovation, and to open this channel. The third is to implement the safety responsibility system, use, inspection, maintenance and repair departments, some elevators are maintained by the manufacturer, and some are maintained by third parties. In particular, it is necessary to innovate the risk sharing mechanism for elevator safety, and actively promote the elevator liability insurance system with the Banking Insurance Regulatory Commission and insurance companies. At present, elevators that purchase commercial insurance are around 25%, and we have to reach more than 30% this year. This is to use the market to share the risk mechanism to further strengthen the supervision of elevator safety.


Quality supervision department cannot force retirement of expired elevators

    The elevator is closely related to the daily life of every ordinary person. From the past reports, some malicious elevator accidents will cause certain public panic, so as more and more elevators expire, the people of insight will come. The more attention is concerned about the safety hazards of the old elevators. Due to the high cost of replacement and replacement of elevators, it is difficult to reach agreement between manufacturers, maintenance, property and owners, so many problems have been dragging on. A well-recognized statement in the elevator industry is that "three points depend on products and seven points depend on maintenance." However, elevator maintenance is a market behavior, and price competition is serious. As a result, the company that performs elevator maintenance has a low profit margin and it is difficult to provide high-quality maintenance services. Property companies vary in size and size. Many small property companies may do one or two years in a community. If you leave, you are not willing to invest a lot of energy; for the owners, the cost of updating the elevator is the most realistic obstacle. The question of how to fund the different floors is long debated, while some owners are completely unwilling to pay. . The result of all factors is the accumulation of old elevators.
    “Elevator supervision is a long chain. The quality inspection department supervises the manufacturing and maintenance units. If the maintenance is not in place, we have to supervise it, but the elevator parts update is not updated. That is the property company has the final say.” Yuan Jianfeng, deputy director of the Special Equipment Supervision Department of the Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision, said in an interview that the quality supervision department could not directly supervise the property company. “Many property companies in the old community are short-term behaviors and have gone away after two years. As a quality supervision department, there is no right to directly scrap the expired elevator. The lawyer of Zhejiang Zhelian Law Firm said that according to the national law, the owner has legal property rights to the elevator he owns, and is forced. The scrapped elevator will conflict with it.
    Some experts believe that high fines effectively reduce the occurrence of accidents, so it is recommended: "It can strengthen the punishment of responsible parties for elevator safety accidents. If there is an elevator failure, the maintenance unit will be responsible for the accommodation of the whole building. The cost of the hotel."