We had the
opportunity to attend the NAEC’s 75th annual convention
September 23rd to September 26th. It was great to
get back and see some of our old friends, meet new friends, sit through
education, be involved with talking points and walk around and see about 300
different vendors.
75th Anniversary & United show - This was a big show for many reasons; on the East Coast, NAEC’s 75th Anniversary & a United show. When we have the show on the East Coast we see a ton of field personnel come in for a day to visit the show. The NAEC celebrated its 75th Anniversary so it was a special year for us. Every few years we have a “United” show which includes NAEC, CECA, Elevator U & IAEC[elevator consultants trade group].
What did I get out of it? On a regular basis I’m asked what do I get out of going to the convention or other NAEC events. I had a list of items from the office to look into while I was at the convention where you can talk face to face with suppliers. Meeting people face to face is much different than trading emails or even phone calls. Challenges that occur over the year can be discussed and resolved in a matter of minutes. The networking is wonderful, seeing friendly faces and talking to people that you email on a regular basis cannot be beat. What I get the most out of is seeing my peers from independent contractors and seeing what is going on in their area and what they are doing and what challenges they are facing.
*I did not attend the real day one which was a great education day and some great parties!
Day 1 – Wednesday – The convention show opened and it was huge this year! Some of my highlights are as follow. Seeing World Electronics Dover DMC repair parts and talking about the obsolescence on many other platforms[some they address some they do not]. I took a look at a pretty solid pressure sensitive pit ladder from S2 Source. Saw a pretty rad car from a vendor who has a pretty detailed communications solution Webb Electronics. Talked with the Victaulic people about their products. Said hi to our friends at Adams and got a run down about their door lock monitoring solutions which they have refined over the NYC DLM challenge. Very impressed with the engineer who designed this. Went to the Hyperion booth and had some good discussions with one of our long time material providers, then did a racing simulation which I got last place. Spent some time with Alpha Elevator and bumped into some old friends from Capital Elevator[Sacramento]. Saw our friends at Formula Systems and the door operator we helped install a new door operator on actually made it and worked!!! We won an Ellie for best contractor in the North. Thanks Elevator World for letting us participate. Kings III took the cake with their jump suits. Went over to Smartrise to see what was new. Saw some of our oldest friends from MCE and saw their destination dispatch and solution to Kones MRL. At night we went out to some great parties from Alpha Elevator and CED[thanks for letting us crash your parties]
Day 2 – Thursday
– I went to the award
breakfast, it was packed! Saw a new
Wurtec residential door operator, took a look at the Otis Glide A linear
operator, revisited the EMS new freight door operator interface which was
slick, looked at Columbias take on replacement of the GAL operator with a Fermitor,
took some pictures with Dennis and the Ellie, which was really the Imperial
Electric Ellie, we had a prankster over at the Nidec booth the previous day,
looked at EPCO’s answer to the TKE buttons that constantly break,
Why you should go – Meet the best in the business, exchange ideas, get challenged, come back to your company with new ideas, see new products and be a better elevator person. Maybe you would meet Elevator Pal Ed?
2025 Convention – Houston, TX
2026 Convention – Chicago, IL - Yes its coming to our home.
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