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Changes 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.
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What Is a Telehandler?
Telehandlers are multi-purpose machines that lift, move and place material.
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What 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).
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Green Access Solutions: Rising to Meet Today’s Environmental Challenges
Around the globe, capital cities and large provincial towns are going greener.
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Advantages 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.
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Common Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) Terms
It pays to be an expert in the equipment industry.
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How 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.
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A Glossary of Common Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) Terms
Safety is always job one on aerial worksites.
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Why 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.
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Recommending 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.
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Stay Informed about Your MEWP Fleet with Important Genie® Safety and Product Notices
Jobsite safety needs to be a priority for contractors, distributors and manufacturers alike.
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What Is Range of Motion?
Telescopic and articulating boom lifts rotate, elevate and extend multiple boom sections to help operators access difficult to reach worksites.
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BIM Provides a Digital, Dynamic Representation of Jobsites
Technology is changing the way the world does business.
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What is considered a hybrid machine?
Power systems for aerial work platforms continue to evolve, just like the machines they drive.
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MEWPs 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.
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Tyre and Steering Options for MEWPs
In order for your customers to get the maximum performance out of a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP), it is important that you consider what type of tyre or track is best suited for their worksite environment and needs.
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Power of Data
Increased market competition and competitive rental rates are significant challenges for rental companies.
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Excellent 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.
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Genie® 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.
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The Training You Want Where and When You Want It!
For rental customers and their technical teams, it is essential to have a sufficient level of expertise in order to keep equipment properly maintained and safe to operate.
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New 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.
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Genie® 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.
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Fall 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.
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High-Pressure Cleaning at Height
Genie is always looking for new ways to add value to its customers’ rental fleets, and with their increased lift capacity (300 kg (660 lb) unrestricted and 454 kg (1,000 lb) restricted), Genie® Xtra Capacity™ (XC™) boom lifts do precisely this — opening the door to new business opportunities.
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Genie® Goes the Extra Mile for Polar Research Station, Greenland
Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed in cooperation with the Government of Greenland since 1988, Summit Station is a scientific platform dedicated to research related to the polar ice core.
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Is Your Machine Up-To-Date?
In collaboration with Robbert van de Berg, who is in charge of Pre-Delivery Inspections (PDI) in the UK and at our European Distribution Centre (EDC) in the Netherlands, our Aftermarket Sales Support specialist Patrick van de Geuchte developed the Genie Safety Notices tool.
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E-Learning: A win-win solution
With online training, technicians can organise their theoretical training in their own time to prepare for practical training.
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Genie® Lift Tools™ Expo Installer: Decor and Signage Tasks Made Easier
The new Genie Lift Tools™ Expo Installer allows for precise, easy placement of signs, banners and hanging décor.
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