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KONE Solutions for Medical Facilities

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Overview: The document discusses the management of people and materials flow in medical facilities, focusing on the role of elevators and escalators provided by Kone Solutions. It highlights the challenges faced in hospitals and the solutions offered by Kone to address these challenges.
Main Sections:
  • Challenges in Medical Facilities: Efficient transportation of patients, staff, and materials is crucial. Elevators must accommodate patients in beds, medical equipment, and visitors with mobility needs.
  • Kone Solutions for Medical Facilities: Kone offers a range of elevators and escalators designed for hospitals, including visitor/passenger, patient/service, freight, and trauma elevators. These solutions focus on safety, reliability, eco-efficiency, and hygiene.
  • Energy Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness: Kone elevators use energy-efficient drives, LED lighting, and standby solutions to reduce energy consumption.
  • Efficient People Flow Management: The Kone Polaris™ destination control system and Kone E-link™ facilitate better traffic handling and data integration with facility management systems.
  • Safety and Reliability: Features like accurate leveling, gearless hoisting machines, and compliance with electromagnetic compatibility standards ensure safety and reliability.
  • Space and Design Considerations: Machine Room-less elevators save space, allowing more room for patient care and architectural flexibility.
  • Hygiene and Aesthetics: Elevators are designed with easy-to-clean materials and comforting designs for patients and staff.
  • Escalators: Designed to handle high traffic intensity with energy-saving features and remote management capabilities.
  • Understanding People and Material Flow: The document includes data on elevator usage patterns in hospitals, emphasizing the need for planning and simulation during the design phase.
  • Technical Specifications: Detailed specifications for various elevator types, including dimensions, capacities, and design options, are provided.
Key Takeaways: Kone Solutions offers comprehensive elevator and escalator solutions tailored for medical facilities, focusing on efficiency, safety, and cost-effectiveness. Their products are designed to meet the unique demands of hospital environments, ensuring smooth and reliable transportation of people and materials.
Overview: The document outlines KONE's comprehensive solutions for hospital elevators, emphasizing design, modernization, construction, and maintenance. It highlights the importance of integrating these solutions with the overall facility management systems to ensure efficient people flow in medical facilities.
Design: KONE provides a complete people flow solution, starting with a thorough analysis and simulation of hospital traffic, including patients, staff, and supplies. The visual design of elevators is tailored to meet aesthetic, functional, durability, and hygiene requirements, with options for custom-designed interiors.
Modernization: KONE offers modernization solutions that enhance safety, convenience, and accessibility while improving energy efficiency and reducing operating costs. The KONE Care for Life™ services assess the current state of elevators to recommend appropriate modernization actions, from minor repairs to full replacements.
Build: KONE's project management teams ensure smooth coordination during hospital construction projects. Their construction time elevators facilitate efficient vertical transportation during the building phase, and post-installation evaluations ensure all requirements are met.
Operate and Maintain: KONE emphasizes uninterrupted operation of elevators, escalators, and doors in medical facilities. Their maintenance services focus on preventive care, utilizing the KONE Remote Monitoring System™ to detect and address issues proactively. Three maintenance solutions—Standard, Plus, and Premium—are available, with additional services for enhanced support.
Contact Information: The document provides contact details for KONE's U.S., Canadian, and Mexican operations centers, along with a comprehensive list of regional offices across North America.
Trademarks and Legal Notices: The document includes legal disclaimers about design alterations and trademarks, noting that KONE and related terms are registered trademarks of KONE Inc.
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Managing the flow of people AND MATERIALS in medical FACILITIES KONE Solutions for Medical Facilities

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A full range of solutions for demanding medical facilities A modern hospital or medical facility offers many challenges for managing the flow of people and materials. Patients in beds need to be transported quickly and smoothly with accompanying staff and medical equipment. Food, laundry, medical supplies and equipment must be transported without interruption. Elevators are used by both patients and visitors, many of whom may have special mobility requirements. KONE hospital elevators

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KONE has a long history of designing, implementing, maintaining and modernizing solutions in demanding hospital environments. By taking each phase of the equipment’s lifetime into consideration, KONE works to keep the facility operating at maximum service, with a low total cost of ownership. KONE solutions for medical facilities 4 1. Visitor/Passenger elevators 2. Patient/Service elevators 3. Freight elevators 4. Trauma elevators 5. Escalators 6. Loading dock 7.  utomated guided vehicles integrated with A elevators and building management systems 8. Destination control systems for elevator groups...

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A complete product portfolio – built for demanding medical applications KONE delivers a full range of elevators and escalators to ensure that patients, staff, visitors and materials move smoothly, efficiently and reliably into, within and out of the hospital. When designing KONE elevators for use in hospitals, we have paid particular attention to safety, reliability, smooth and quiet operation, eco-efficiency and hygiene. All KONE elevator solutions are KONE EcoDisc® powered and utilize proven KONE components. K ONE Machine Room-Less elevators save space, allowing more room for patient care and...

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Understanding the flow of people and materials in hospitals In hospitals the elevators are in constant use from early morning to late evening every day of the week. Sudden increases in elevator service may be caused by lunch time or visitor hours. These and even the extreme conditions like possible evacuation of the whole building needs to be analyzed and simulated during the planning phase. Intensity of elevator starts/hour in a 15-floor hospital building KONE hospital elevators

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Elevator solutions for all medical applications Elevators are essential for ensuring the smooth flow of people and materials in the hospital. KONE provides a full range of elevator solutions, for supplies and equipment, staff, visitors and patients, whether they are coming in the front door or landing on the roof. When designing solutions for a medical environment, our design criteria is extreme reliability, safety and energy-efficiency, lower cost of ownership and minimum environmental impact. In hospital environments special attention is paid to hygiene. Materials have been carefully selected...

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KONE freight elevators are specifically designed to move heavy loads, offering the following special features: n n F ast and durable hoisting – to cope with rough treatment M achine Room-Less – enables elevator to serve the top floor without a machine room on the roof of the hospital A smooth ride – to handle fragile loads Accurate leveling – for easy loading and unloading F ull-width doors – that maximize use of space in the car KONE visitor/passenger elevators are designed to transport visitors and staff smoothly and efficiently, offering the following special features: n S pace efficiency...

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Trauma Section View KONE Medical Facilities Front Opening CAPACITY OPENING HOISTWAY LBS. TYPE WIDTH (kg) (mm) (mm) Trauma TYPE Machine Room Above Front Opening Front & Reverse Opening Clear Overhead I Pit Depth J Section View Contact your local KONE Sales Professional on how we may support your design process with BIM Models. Plan Views Plan Views Machine Room KONE hospital elevators 6'-2" (1880) 16'-6" (5029) 6'-11" (2108) 17'-6" (5335) 1. All dimensions are based on an 8'-0" (2438 mm) cab with a 7 5'-10" (1778) 16'-4" (4978) 5'-11" (1803) – – 10,000 (4540) and door 16'-9" (5105) available,...

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Patient – Service Plan Views KONE Medical Facilities Patient – Service C E CAPACITY Patient – Service Clear Overhead H Pit Depth I (8) Integral Controller Space (standard) 4000 to 5000 AIA (1814-2268) integral or remote ca Control Space DOOR 5000 AIA WIDTH 4000 to DEPTH (1814-2268) adjacent or remote r WIDTH (mm) (mm) (mm) CONTROLLER SPACE integral or remote cabinet adjacent or remote room 1. Smaller Pit and Overhead dimensions may be avialable per L Sales Professional for further information. J 2. Buffer service platforms are required when pit depth exce (6) D B (8) 3. A hoist beam(s) (by KONE)...

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KONE Medical Facilities Freight Front Opening TYPE Machine Room-Less MAX TRAVEL 75 ft. (23 m) Front & Reverse Opening Control Space CONTROLLER SPACE Plan Notes integral or remote cabinet E CONTROLLER SPACE integral or remote cabinet 6000-10,000 (2724-4540) DOOR adjacent or remote room DEPTH WIDTH (mm) (mm) 1'-8" (508) dimension available (914) specific application 3'-0" per Shallower 5'-0" Depths may be (B) Pit (1524) Professional for further information. 2. Buffer service platforms are required when pit depth exceeds L Notes 3. A hoist beam(s) (by KONE) is (are) required for installation (b...

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KONE Medical Facilities capacitY opening hoiStwaY Plan ViewstYpe lBS. wiDth (kg) (mm) (mm) Front & Reverse Opening Front Opening TYPE Machine Room-less Clear Overhead H Pit Depth I 2500 I H H I H H SEISMIC (1134) H 7-'3" (2210) 13'-7" (4140) H SEISMIC K E C I 7'-10" (2388) 13'-7" (4140) 3000 (1361) cleaR cleaR cleaR pit cleaR pit cleaR pit cleaR Depth oVeRheaD oVeRheaD Depth oVeRheaD oVeRheaD Depth oVeRheaD oVeRheaD 13'-9" (4191) capacitY 8'-1" (2464) 3500 (1588) (mm) L (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm) lBS. (kg) 8'-7" (2616) 13'-9" (4191) 4000 (1814) J 2000 (907) 5'-4" (1626) 15'-6" (4724)...

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