ThyssenKrupp, like Rolls Royce and other manufacturers of machines marketed on their down-to-the-micron engineering, has an advantage that lets it consider deploying expensive technology like the HoloLens all the way down to the level of the individual client: it employs all its technicians in the US, Hussey said.
Schierenbeck told reporters that while “the one-mile tower is being planned”, elevator repair lags far behind such advances.