Dallas, TX – When I say the name Otis, what do you think of? There's Redding and Rush if you're music fans, but for the majority of us who live or work above a second floor, most likely Otis is a name ...

On Sept. 20, 1853, Elisha Graves Otis sold his first “hoist machine,” or elevator, featuring an automatic safety brake he had patented. His seemingly simple invention was designed to stop a platform ...

Otis elevators are in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building at 2,722 ft. Image © Emaar properties. But it was Otis' elevator that would allow for ...

Otis Elevator rolled out its newest application of internet technology Tuesday as it turns to digital operations to reduce elevator maintenance and repairs that are costly to customers and ...

When Otis Elevator Co. spins out from United Technologies in 2020 (probably happening sometime in April 2020), it will immediately catapult into the Fortune 500 with a valuation of $29 billion, $13 ...

Otis Worldwide Corporation (NYSE:OTIS), a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry with annual revenue of $14.26 billion, finds itself at a crossroads as it navigates a complex market ...

A first for Otis in New Zealand, Otis is integrating service robots with its elevators – the Otis Integrated Dispatch™ technology allows the autonomous robot to call an elevator, select destinations, ...

Staff Writer Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business — until Elisha Otis, of Otis Elevator Company fame, invented a device that could prevent a passenger elevator from falling if its rope ...

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