research development innovation

R&D+i

IMEM Lifts is a company completely committed to the unceasing pursuit of technological progress.Which is why we have an R&D+innovation department dedicated to coming up with new solutions and improvements for the lift industry, year in and year out. As a direct result, our company is constantly developing brand new products for complex national and international projects in over fifty countries across all five continents. Our steady investment in research and innovation and the improvement of our products are values which are fundamental to our company’s corporate culture as is reflected in our lifts’ unfailingly high technological standards.

The overriding objective of our R&D+i department is to anticipate our clients’ needs so that we can continue to offer them brand new features and ever-improving performance: from making all our lifts more comfortable, to updating them in line with new national and international regulations, to improving each product’s performance, its energy-saving characteristics and its environmental impact.

Lift users are, of course, the ultimate beneficiaries of this continuous process of innovation, riding lifts which are ever more spacious, smooth and comfortable, which do not vibrate or generate noise as they travel, which are more reliable and so less often out of service, which are more precise and levelled-out at landing and which are increasingly environmentally friendly. To achieve such results IMEM’s R&D+i department is continually developing new solutions, such as working with new gearless traction systems which are completely silent and eco-friendly , using special high-resistance steel which significantly lowers the weight of our products, monitoring product performance so as to progressively improve the technical support which we can provide, and so on.

Our R&D+i department uses sophisticated tools and processes in the design of new products, such as the innovative 3-D mechanical design software programmes, which simulate every new product before manufacture and ensure that it does not go into production until it has fully satisfied our stringent test parameters for reliability, operation and responsiveness.

The electrical and electronic components of our lifts are manufactured with absolute precision, employing microprocessors which require the use of low-level software development platforms and microprocessor emulators, so as to guarantee a perfect match between the original input data and the output results.

Many applications require the use of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and communication simulators using different protocols where the lifts have to be integrated into industrial communication networks using different types of communications standards.

All the improvements which we introduce are created using an innovative electrical system with which we configure the control cabinets and wiring networks in accordance with international standards such as DIN, UNE, IEC, NEN, BS, ANSI, JIC, and others.

Our commitment to continuous technological improvement has created such reliable and state-of-the-art products as the Maniobra Altamira, and the revolutionary SILENS- Pro Lift, recognised as being on the cutting edge of technological innovation.