Industrial Doors

Reducing Risk  Safety in industrial automatic doors and gates By Torben Rochat Safety issues have become a very important aspect for industrial, commercial and garage automatic door and gate manufacturers and subcontractors. Accidents in North America and Europe have led to changes in national standards. In March 2000, revisions of UL 325 went into affect in North America and, ...

The Basics of access control By Byron Hedahl While access control has been around for centuries in one form or another, it has only been in the last several decades that it has moved beyond the basics. Access control can be defined as, “A system that allows the right person into the right place at the right time.” This ...

ANSI Standard Changes By Jacques Vaarre The anticipated standard from the American National Standards Institute is one of the most comprehensive ever, leaving automatic door professionals with some serious studying to do before the next installation. This article expresses the interpretation of some of the key changes in the standard and explains how these changes will affect the installing ...

Industrial Door Safeguarding  Help your customers reduce accidents By Jac Whitmire and Tim Castello Itseems as though every time you turn on the news or read a newspaper, seemingly frivolous legal claims jump from the headlines. These claims can cost enormous sums of money for the defendants, who are often major corporations with “deep pockets.” Unfortunately, the publicity that ...

Access Control  Educate customers, build solid relationships, win more jobs By Kevin Downing Installers are often faced with the responsibility of quoting a job that has been improperly or inadequately specified by either the architectural firm or the systems designer. But deficient specifications are not always the fault of the designer. A big reason for specification problems often have ...