Using MEWPs in Different Markets and Applications
Mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) are used in a variety of work environments.
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Increased market competition and competitive rental rates are significant challenges for rental companies.
Continue ReadingWhat Is a Push-Around?
Aerial work platforms — or AWPs, as they are more commonly known — are economical, portable models that lift one or two workers.
Continue ReadingRobust Hybrid Technology: A “Must Have” in Today’s Rental Fleets
Responding to worldwide demand for high-performance yet environment friendly aerial access equipment, and to increasingly stringent emissions and noise regulations, particularly in European markets, hybrid technology today, especially in rental equipment fleets, must be able to perform a wide range of indoor and outdoor applications, increasing utilization rate for rental businesses and decreasing cost of operation for end users.
Continue ReadingChanges to Genie® Scissor Lifts and Vertical Mast Lifts You Need to Know About
When the new ANSI A92 (United States) and CSA B354 (Canada) standards go into effect, they will drive alignment with ISO standards, which impacts the way aerial access equipment is designed, manufactured, maintained and operated globally.
Continue ReadingWhat Is a Telehandler?
Telehandlers are multi-purpose machines that lift, move and place material.
Continue ReadingIt’s Time to Embrace Telematics — Here’s Why
From reading about it in countless articles within trade magazines to conversations with peers, it’s easy to understand that telematics can bring a lot of benefits to rental businesses.
Continue ReadingTelematics and the Data Sharing Economy
As the construction industry continues to modernize its business operation, telematics technology is now being widely adopted and more commonly used in the aerial rental market.
Continue ReadingDesigning in 3-D
As more firms are designing in 3-D, we are receiving an increase in demand from architects and our customers for Genie® BIM files.
Continue ReadingWhat Is a Scissor Lift?
Scissor lifts are a classification of manlift often found in construction and facility maintenance applications designed to elevate workers and their tools to working heights ranging from 5.9 m (19 ft) to 17.9 (59 ft).
Continue ReadingGreen Access Solutions: Rising to Meet Today’s Environmental Challenges
Around the globe, capital cities and large provincial towns are going greener.
Continue ReadingAdvantages of Dual-Zone Operation on Genie® Scissor Lifts
As aerial industry standards continue to become more closely aligned worldwide, manufacturers like Genie, who produce scissor lifts (a classification of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) named for their lifting mechanism design — a stack of crossed tubes that work in a scissor-like fashion when the platform is raised and lowered) for global markets are taking a closer look at how requirements in these standards impact machine design and safe use.
Continue ReadingCommon Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) Terms
It pays to be an expert in the equipment industry.
Continue ReadingHow Machine Data Influences MEWP Maintenance and Service
When looking at a machine’s service and repair from that perspective, downtime costs a rental business big time.
Continue ReadingA Glossary of Common Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) Terms
Safety is always job one on aerial worksites.
Continue ReadingWhy BIM?
“We think of BIM as a beginning-to-end concept,” says Josh Lyons, architect for The Thrasher Group, an architecture, engineering and field services company, headquartered in Bridgeport, West Virginia, US.
Continue ReadingRecommending the Right MEWP
In today’s competitive market, we, at Genie, know that it is more important than ever for you to establish and earn your rental customers’ respect as a trusted advisor.
Continue ReadingMEWPs vs. Scaffolding
Prior to the introduction of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) in the 1970s, construction industry professionals relied almost exclusively on ladders and scaffolding to access major work at height projects.
Continue ReadingBIM Provides a Digital, Dynamic Representation of Jobsites
Technology is changing the way the world does business.
Continue ReadingPower of Data
Increased market competition and competitive rental rates are significant challenges for rental companies.
Continue ReadingExcellent Below-level Reach For A Challenging Task In Martinique
Part of the road, and in particular a series of tight bends leading to Grand'Rivière, a small, isolated fishing village located at the north of Martinique on the foothills of Mount Pelée, was in urgent need of reinforcement.
Continue ReadingGenie® Service Solutions: Taking Support to the Next Level
Over the past few years, it has become increasing difficult for rental companies to find engineers and service technicians with the right experience.
Continue ReadingNew Energy Technologies: The Power to Build the Future
‘Building the future’ has been in the DNA of Genie since the brand was created 50 years ago.
Continue ReadingGenie® Lift Connect™ Telematics Programme
Focusing on providing actionable information, flexibility and transparency, the new Genie® Lift Connect™ programme marks a significant evolution in the Genie telematics journey.
Continue ReadingFall Arrest Bar on Genie® Booms: What You Need to Know
For more than 50 years, Genie has successively brought to market solutions that focus on operator safety.
Continue ReadingGuidelines for Returning a Damaged MEWP to Service
Although not a common occurrence, aerial equipment — like all machinery — can be involved in an incident that causes damage to the unit. When this occurs, it’s critical that action is taken to ensure that any damage is repaired before it is returned to service.
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